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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
• r 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

• 13 LLM schemes identified - type of schemes:

– Bypasses / highway realignment – Motorway junction improvements – Dualling

• 15 MRN schemes identified - types of schemes:

– Highway structures – Corridor packages – Enablers of growth – Bypasses – Pinch-points

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?