Forthcoming Decisions

This report seeks approval from Cabinet to proceed with the spending plan for £7.025m Bus Service Improvement Plan Phase 3 funding from the Department for Transport, as approved by the Enhanced Partnership Executive Board on 26 February 2024.

This is deemed to be a Key Decision and the requirements of Standing Order C18 have been complied with.

This report sets out a recommendation to approve the progression of the following procurement exercise:

(i) Employee Screening Service

And a recommendation for the extension of the following contracts for four months, to allow the procurement exercise and contract mobilisation to be satisfactorily completed:

(i) Young People's Supported Accommodation Contracts

This is deemed to be a Key Decision and the requirements of Standing Order C18 have been complied with.

This report requests approval of the proposed 2024/25 Transport Programme, funded by the Department for Transport's Integrated Transport Grant totalling £6.101 million; together with approval that an allocation of £491,000, held as a contingency in the 2023/24 Transport programme, be added to and allocated as part of the 2024/25 programme. This would create a total fund of £6.592 million in 2024/25.

This is deemed to be a Key Decision and the requirements of Standing Order C18 have been complied with.

This report, and the Executive Summary set out at Appendix 'A', outline the requirements for the development of Local Cycling & Walking Infrastructure Plans and the subsequent development of seven Local Cycling & Walking Infrastructure Plan documents for Lancashire.

At this stage, the documents set out broad cycle corridors and walking zones only, within a broad network.  In the future the corridors and zones will provide the focus for further work to define detailed routes and locations for active travel infrastructure across the county.

The broad corridors and zones also provide a focus for securing future investment for delivery of infrastructure – such as from developer contributions or external grants.  It is at this future funding stage that the detail of the broad routes and zones will be defined.

Consultation and extended stakeholder engagement has taken place to make best use of local knowledge to help inform the proposed broad network – which itself was prepared following a prescribed methodology from the Department for Transport.

This is deemed to be a Key Decision and the requirements of Standing Order C18 have been complied with.

Lancashire County Council reviews its Home to School Transport Policy on an annual basis. New guidance was issued by the Department for Education on Home to School Transport for children of compulsory school age in June 2023. Although there are no changes to the statutory entitlement of pupils, the amended policy reflects the Department for Education's recommendations that all the information in relation to transport assistance is available to parents in one document. The previous mainstream and Special Educational Needs transport policies have therefore been amalgamated, and additional information has been provided to parents, to ensure transparency and understanding.

This is deemed to be a Key Decision and the requirements of Standing Order C18 have been complied with.