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Highway Locality Budget (HLB)
- HLB objective: to get communities more
involved in influencing how money is spent on the roads, footways and verges in their area
- Rolled out across Hertfordshire in April 2012
- Each County Councillor has a budget of £90,000
(78 Members x £90k = £7.02m)
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TOTAL HLB PER DIVISION CAPITAL REVENUE
- All carriageway resurfacing (including micro surfacing) /
reconstruction / recycling.
- All footway resurfacing (including micro surfacing) /
reconstruction / recycling.
- All patching of carriageways or footways, unless needed to
resolve a reactive issue e.g. ponding, or to facilitate a wider improvement e.g. in front of a pram crossing.
- New pedestrian crossings e.g. Zebras and Puffins.
- Planned improvements to the highway network, such as
new drainage, footways, verge grasscrete and parking bays, or for the implementation of PTROs where new road markings is the minor part (value) of the overall works, such as 20mph zones.
- Planned programmes of improvements / refurbishment
work, such as new ‘pram’ crossings, sign and bollard replacements.
- New Speed Indicator Devices (SIDs).
- New sockets for SIDs (including relocating existing SIDs if applicable).
- New or replaced road signage (including implementing PTROs if the
majority of the overall works cost is for traffic signs).
- New road studs.
- New or replaced street furniture, including benches, bollards and
fencing / railings.
- New or replaced street lights.
- New dropped kerbs for pedestrian access (‘pram’ crossings).
- New grasscrete verge protection.
- New drainage improvements, e.g. new or replacement pipework,
gullies, headwalls.
- Design work (staff time) for deliverable capital type schemes e.g.
pedestrian crossings.
- Designing / consulting on PTROs e.g. waiting restrictions and speed
limits, that has an identified and deliverable proposal (subject to processes), including advertising costs.
- HLB contribution towards TTRO adverting costs for delivery of capital
maintenance works. Capital funding can only be used for projects that substantially increase the useful life or market value of the highways asset, in other words long term structural maintenance activity and/or improvement schemes, such as a new pedestrian crossing. Revenue funding has no such restrictions but is expected to fund day to day running costs like routine maintenance activities, such as vegetation trimming, sign washing, road marking renewals, and investigatory studies to develop scheme options and funding bids. This starting allocation WILL BE the confirmed budget allocation split of Capital and Revenue unless declared otherwise by 31/12/2018.
