Western Gateway Sub-national Transport Body Major Road Network / Large Local Majors – emerging scheme priorities Transport and Business Forum 12 June 2019
Funding opportunity National Roads Fund • £28.8 billion Fund dedicated for highway improvements (2020-2025) • Created by hypothecating English Vehicle Excise Duty • Strategic Road Network (Highways England) (RIS2) will be allocated £25.3bn or 88% of the fund • The remaining £3.5bn or 12% will be available through a competitive bidding process for the Major Road Network and Large Local Major schemes • The split and annual profiling has not been confirmed
What improvements can be funded? Major Road Network funding is for: • Bypasses • Missing Links • Major structural works • Major junction improvements • Use of smart technology • Packages of improvements including: safety, road widening, junction improvements MRN schemes should cost in the region of between £20m to £50m
What improvements can be funded? Large Local Majors funding is for: Exceptionally large - potentially transformative local schemes – such as: • Dualling • Bridges • Motorway junction improvements Bids were made by LEPs in the previous funding round LLM schemes should cost over £50 million.
Strategic and major road network
Applying for funding • Sub-National Transport Bodies are required to identify up to 10 MRN priorities & 2 or 3 LLM schemes for delivery between 2020-2025 • They are also required to identify a pipeline of future MRN / LLM priorities for delivery post 2025 • For MMR and LLM funding (2020-25) the deadline for submitting of sub- national priorities is the end of July • An announcement on the funding allocation for the first two years of the fund is expected in the Autumn
Emerging scheme priorities – call for schemes • 15 MRN schemes identified - types of schemes: – Highway structures – Corridor packages – Enablers of growth – Bypasses – Pinch-points • 13 LLM schemes identified - type of schemes: – Bypasses / highway realignment – Motorway junction improvements – Dualling
Prioritisation process Each scheme was appraised against the MRN guidance: • Greater weight was given to those schemes that: – Alleviated Congestion – Supported Economic Growth & Rebalancing – Enabled Housing Delivery • Other considerations within the appraisal process included: – How the scheme supported all road users – How the scheme supported the Strategic Road Network – When construction of the scheme was programmed to begin
MRN and LLM Priorities • 7 MRN schemes and 2 LLM priorities have been identified • These scheme can be grouped under three Western Gateway objectives – Improving urban travel – Improving north / south connectivity – Improving international connectivity
Improving urban travel
Improving north/south connectivity
Improving international connectivity
Starting point for MRN future pipeline for delivery post 2025 • Manvers Street – Reconstruction (Bath) • Saint Philips Causeway Viaduct (Spine Road complex) (Bristol) • A348 Ringwood Road Corridor Transport Improvements Package (BCP) • A354/A35(T) Junction Package (Dorset) • A4019/A4013/A40 corridor Package (Cheltenham) • A38 – St Barnabas Corridor (Gloucester) • Staverton Diversion (Trowbridge) • A432 Widening and Junction Improvements (South Glos)
Starting point for LLM future pipeline for delivery post 2025 – A31 to Poole Link Road – A350 Melbury Abbas Bypass – Dorchester Bypass Junction Package – A40 Over to Longford Improvement Scheme (Gloucester) – M5 Junction 10 (Cheltenham) – M5 Junction 12 (Gloucester) – M5 Junction 14 (Dursley) – Chepstow Bypass – Western Harbour, Highway realignment (Bristol) – A432 Coalpit Heath and Westerleigh Bypass (South Glos) – A432 Winterbourne & Frampton Cotterall Bypass (South Glos)
Facilitated group discussions • Thinking about your business or service which of the priority improvements will be most beneficial to you? • What priority do you see as being most beneficial to the area as a whole? • What other travel improvements should we prioritise?
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