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Scheme Delivery and LTP Spending

Scheme Type

No.
Planned

No.
Delivered

Predicted
Cost

Outturn
Cost

Divergence

No. of
Schemes
[+/- %]

Cost
(-Absolute)

 Local Safety Schemes

26

29

1,200,000

1,604,377

+12

+34%

 20mph zones and Homezones

14

14

300,000

832809

-

+178%

 Lancashire Road Safety Project

1

1

70,000

124,261

-

+78%

 Quality Bus Schemes

5

9

2,488,000

2,358,231

+80

-5%

 Information, Ticketing and Smartcards

2

2

750,000

707,125

-

-6%

 Total Transport Network

1

1

880,000

994,089

-

13%

 Interchanges

5

10

1,030,000

983,696

+100

-4%

 Rail Schemes

5

5

425,000

433,594

-

+2%

 Cycling Schemes

18

25

820,000

1,592,214

+39

+94%

 Pedestrian Priority Schemes

7

10

400,000

569,087

+43

+42%

 Rural Schemes

8

8

350,000

360,766

-

+3%

 Parking Management

1

1

900,000

2,167,206

-

+141%

 School Travel Plans

50

78

350,000

577,841

+56

+65%

 Travel Planning

20

10

100,000

134,480

-50

+34%

 Highway Schemes and Traffic Management

13

12

3,218,000

2,940,372

-7

-9%

 Street Lighting Crime Reduction/Energy Saving

12

16

300,000

413,999

+33

+38%

 Maintenance of Highways

214

650

11,743,000

13,080,192

+204

+11%

 Maintenance, Assessment and Strengthening of Bridges

255

188

4,553,000

5,220,312

-20

+15%

 De-trunked Roads

-

6

972,000

959,620

-

-1%

TOTALS

649

1075

30,829,000

36,054,272

+66


+17%

During the 2004/05 financial year Lancashire County Council has managed to draw on substantial additional resources for transport investment through contributions from developers, grants, on-street parking income and contributions from other bodies and local authorities. With these extra resources we have delivered a programme of £36.054 million. This was an increase of 23% over the block allocation for 2004/05 of £29.209 million. Spending on all areas of the programme reached at least 90% of the programmed level.

Summary of Capital Financing
Transport Capital Allocation

£29,209,000

SCE for De-trunked roads

£2,147,000

Revenue Contributions (includes on street parking revenue)

£1,057,741

Grants

£1,939,084

Contibutions from Local Authorities and other Public Bodies

£778,469

Private Sector Contributions

£922,979

Total

£36,054,272

There was a 34% increase in Local Safety Scheme delivery and expenditure on cycling schemes were almost doubled with a start on the Lune viaduct refurbishment funded from on-street parking income. Two Home Zones were constructed during the year using grant funding which increased the spending in this area and increased funding was made available to increase pedestrian priority measures by 42% over the original programme.

Expenditure on parking management was considerably higher than forecast with almost all the set up costs of the ParkWise project falling in this financial year. Increased resources were also found for school travel plans where the impact of five extra staff promoting plans is delivering more plans. There were also significant increases in the resources for business travel plans and in street lighting schemes targeted at areas where they are expected to reduce crime.

The total expenditure on Bridge Maintenance, Assessment and Strengthening in 2004/05 was less than anticipated in last year's progress report.  This was due to slippage caused by adverse weather conditions and a contractual difficulty in obtaining a compliant tender for one scheme.

Good progress has been made over the year in strengthening 12 substandard bridges and 1,505 metres of substandard retaining walls.  This included three further joint schemes with Network Rail in order to improve access to rural communities in the Fylde.  It also included a large scheme to strengthen three substandard bridges in Waddington, Ribble Valley.  The works were a major contribution to the alleviation of severe flooding problems in the village and were undertaken in partnership with the Environment Agency, District Council and Parish Council.

Progress on assessment of bridges has continued and work has begun on the assessment of retaining walls.  However, resources have been diverted from assessments in order to carry out urgent strengthening work on bridges because this provides greater benefit to the travelling public.  Now that this work has been done, it is planned to complete the assessment of bridges and to make a significant inroad into the assessment of retaining walls in 2005/06.  It is intended, as part of this work, to commit significant resources to improve the information held in our Bridge Management System so that an Asset Management Plan can be implemented based on the framework developed by CSS/TAG.

The divergence in the number of schemes (MM7 and MM8) is inevitable because the cost of individual schemes varies considerably.  This year several high value schemes were carried out, thus increasing the average scheme cost and reducing the number of schemes which could be undertaken within the allocation.

The divergence in the cost of structures schemes (MM7 and MM8) is due to the decision to carry out urgent strengthening schemes in preference to undertaking assessments.