Decision details

To consider headroom & tails, allocations principles and priorities, business cases, funding asks, delegations on individual schemes.

The Combined Authority Committee RESOLVED to REFUSE officers’ recommendation to:

1)     Return the £4.1m balance of the previous allocations for the Land Acquisition and Development Infrastructure Funds and Love Our High Streets to create further headroom.

The Combined Authority Committee RESOLVED:

2)     To approve the Full Business Case for the Bath Local Centres High Street Improvement scheme and the award of £295k subject to confirmation of the match funding.

3)     To approve the Full Business Case for Bath River Line Phase 1 and the award of £1.048m subject to securing necessary planning consent and the value for money assessment for both phases presenting high value for money

4)     To allocate £79k to the Mini-Holland Pilot Scheme and delegate the approval of a Feasibility and Development Funding Application to the Combined Authority Chief Executive in consultation with the Chief Executives of the constituent Councils.

5)     To approve a further allocation of £10m for the development of an Outline Business Case for new public transport from the Investment Fund headroom.

6)     To approve the Feasibility and Development Funding Application for the B&NES Strategic Masterplanning and award of £1.345m.

7)     To approve the South Gloucestershire Council Feasibility and Development Funding Application for the Evidence to support Transition from Spatial Development Strategy to Local Plan Making programme and the award of £900k.

8)     To allocate a further £750k for Strategic Masterplanning subject to this being drawn down at the next Committee and delivery being completed by 2023/24.

9)     To approve the Feasibility and Development Funding Application for the Bristol Avon Flood Strategy – Active Travel & Green Infrastructure Greenway and the award of £482k.

In order to re-establish a five-year programme, the time horizon for the Investment Fund programme has been extended by a further three years to March 2026. This report sets out a series of recommendations to spend or return funding to the Investment Fund. 

All Business Case are required to set out in detail the full range of options considered and the reason the preferred option has been identified.