Agenda item

The Board considered the progression of 7 schemes through the assurance process.

The Manvers Way and Forge Island Footbridge projects were seeking progression to full approval and award of funding, and the Broom Road project was requested to be endorsed to the MCA for full approval and award of funding.

Progression was sought for approval of the Elsecar and Barnsley Active Travel Hubs schemes from Outline Business Case to Full Business Case with the release of development funding.

The approval of the progression of the Rotherham Mainline Station scheme was requested, and endorsement to the MCA Board for approval of the Meadowhall Mobility Hub scheme from Strategic Business Case to Outline Business Case and the release of development funding.

The Board raised concerns around the benefit cost ratio (BCR) of the Broom Road project. The Assistant Director of Procurement, Contracts & Programme Controls advised that although the BCR of the project was poor, it was a strategic priority for Rotherham. In this case, it was considered that the strategic importance outweighed the BCR.

RESOLVED that the Board consider and approve:

1.   Progression of ‘T0022 – Manvers Way’ Full Business Case (FBC) to approval and award of £1.03m grant from Transforming Cities Fund (TCF) to Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) subject to the conditions set out in the Assurance Summary attached at Appendix A1;

2.   Progression of ‘T0026/1 – Forge Island Footbridge’ FBC to approval and award of £1.0m grant from TCF to RMBC subject to the conditions set out in Appendix A3;

3.   Progression of ‘CRSTS3/2 (T0033) – Elsecar Active Travel Hub’ from OBC to FBC and release of development costs of £0.05m from CRSTS funding to BMBC subject to the conditions set out in the Assurance Summary attached at Appendix C1;

4.   Progression of ‘CRSTS52 – Rotherham Mainline Station’ from Strategic Business Case (SBC) to Outline Business Case (OBC) and release of development cost funding of £1.0m from City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS) to RMBC subject to the conditions set out Assurance Summary attached at Appendix C1;

5.   Delegated authority be given to the Head of Paid Service in consultation with the Section 73 and Monitoring Officer to enter into legal agreements for the schemes covered above.

The Board consider and endorse:

6.   Progression of ‘O0047/CRSTS28 – Broom Road’ to MCA for FBC approval and award of £3.6m grant from Active Travel Fund 2 (ATF2), City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS) and Gainshare to RMBC subject to the conditions set out in Appendix A2;

7.   Progression of ‘CRSTS3/3 (T0030) – Barnsley Active Travel Hub’ to MCA from OBC to FBC and release of development costs of £0.24m from CRSTS funding to BMBC subject to the conditions set out in the Assurance Summary attached at Appendix B2;

8.   Progression of ‘CRSTS17 – Meadowhall Mobility Hub’ to MCA for approval of progression from Strategic Business Case (SBC) to OBC and release of development cost funding of £0.26m from CRSTS to South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) subject to the conditions set out in Assurance Summary attached at Appendix C2.

The Board note:

9. Endorsement by Assurance Panel of the withdrawal of TCF scheme ‘T0025 – Doncaster Road’ for RMBC due to the scheme no-longer being financially viable and the £1.7m TCF funding be ringfenced to RMBC to be used to support remaining TCF schemes.