Decision details

The DfT retaining walls programme was established in 2019 to cover repairs to retaining walls on priority routes in the East of the County. The programme has been in progress since with most projects now complete.

There is one remaining high priority project in progress for which funding is in place for completion.

There are two low priority projects outstanding where the scope has been reduced and funding can be made available to support other projects within the programme. These are:

• 10357 20/21 Glen Terrace Ret/Wall and
• 10366 20/21 Pilkington Canal Ret/Walls

There are three completed projects that currently have an overspend and require additional funding to reconcile the budgets and allow the projects to be closed out financially. These are:

• 10364 20/21 Easden Wood Ret/Wall
• 10360 20/21 Hud Hey Ret/Wall
• 13152 20/21 Limy Water Retaining Wall No2

It is proposed to transfer £55,000 of available funds from the two low priority projects to cover the overspends on the three overspent projects as follows:

• 10364 20/21 Easden Wood Ret/Wall £48000 From 10357 20/21 Glen Terrace Ret/Wall (£28,000) and 10366 20/21 Pilkington Canal Ret/Walls (£20,000)
• 10360 20/21 Hud Hey Ret/Wall £2000 From 10366 20/21 Pilkington Canal Ret/Walls
• 13152 20/21 Limy Water Retaining Wall No2 £5000 From 10366 20/21 Pilkington Canal Ret/Walls

There is no change to the overall programme budget, all the projects are in the same programme year and the total of all the changes for this programme are less than £100,000.

Head of service is asked to approve the transfer in order to financially reconcile the programme.

Ridwan Musa, Head of Service Highways Operations and Design, on behalf of the Matt Townsend, Director of Highways and Transport took a decision to make changes to project budgets within the Bridges Maintenance - DfT Retaining Walls Programme in order to financially reconcile the programme.