1. Highways Maintenance Funding for Local Roads
Parvis Khansari - ADEPT Chair of Engineering Board
Graham Pendlebury - Director of Local Transport, DfT
Geoff Allister - Executive Director, Highways Term Maintenance Association
Lila Tachtsi - Director, Transport Asset Management, Atkins

2. Challenges and Risks
Disconnect between funding Strategy and Asset Management Strategy
Constraining growth
Historic backlog
Governance

3. Opportunities Public support Innovation, efficiencies and HMEP
Transport Investment Strategy
National Roads Fund
Major Roads Network
More efficient allocation of funding
Collaboration and alliances

4. Graham Pendlebury
Director of Local Transport, DfT

5. HIGHWAYS UK – Local Maintenance Funding
Graham Pendlebury – Department for Transport
November 2017
OFFICIAL
Local Roads Maintenance

6. Funding Local Highway Maintenance
Between 2016 – 2021, UK Government is making over £7 billion of capital funding available for local highways maintenance and improving local networks.
This includes £578 million of this amount has been set aside to incentivise local authorities to carry out cost effective improvements and have an up to date asset management strategy.
And £250 million through the Pothole Action Fund between 2016 and 2021.
Additional £1.1 billion National Investment Productivity Fund (NPIF) announced Autumn Statement November to tackle congestion hotspots on local road network.
November 24, 2018

7. Funding Incentive Fund
Year
Incentive Fund
2016/17
£50 million
2017/18
£75 million
2018/19
£151 million
2019/20
2020/21
To be shared between 115 local highway authorities
Amount each authority is eligible for based on usual needs formula

8. Funding Competitive Funding Streams
NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY INVESTMENT FUND (NPIF)
Spring Budget 2017 announced a £690 million Fund to local highway authorities in England outside London through a competition. Bids were received for the first tranche of funding in June projects were awarded £244m in October 2017.
NPIF has three key objectives –
To Ease traffic congestion
To unlock economic growth and enable job creation
To enable the delivery of vital new housing developments
Bids sought for two categories –
up to £5m of DfT funding for small road improvement schemes
up to £10m of DfT funding for larger schemes subject to a strong economic case being made by the bidder.
Although no minimum local contribution was specified all bidders offered to make a local contribution of their own or seek additional funding from a developer or housebuilder, as key element of the Fund is to improve access to sites which stimulate development for new homes and also benefit local businesses.

9. Funding Transport Investment Strategy
Transport Investment Strategy published in July 2017.
Unveiling the strategy in July 2017, Transport Secretary the Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP described it as “a blueprint for how we can harness the power of transport investment to drive balanced economic growth.”
Key part of the proposals are the Government’s announcement that it will be consulting on plans for a ‘Major Road Network’, which would see a share of the annual National Roads Fund, funded by Vehicle Excise Duty (VED), given to local authorities to invest in local roads.
Strategy highlights Government’s commitment to prioritising predictable funding and a stable long-term pipeline of projects
November 18

10. Improving Efficiencies Revised Code of Practice
November 24, 2018

11. Future Funding Streams
24 November 2018

12. Embracing Technology to Help Maintain Roads and Resilience
November 18
Version 1-2, 2nd February 2012

13. Local Highways Innovation
Pothole Spotter Trial
“Pothole-Spotter is a combination of advanced and well tested technologies as well as advanced data analytics techniques that will help to identify existing potholes and developing problems.
Over time this will enable councils to better predict how and when potholes are created. Creating a proactive service delivery environment.
Local Highways Innovation
November 18
Version 1-2, 2nd February 2012

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15. Local Resilience
The winter of 2015/16 saw a number of storms which led to severe damage to local roads, bridges and other highway assets.
The Department provided over £180 million in March 2016 in emergency flood recovery funding to help rebuild local highway assets.
The Department is currently undertaking work for Cabinet Office, as part of longer term work on National Flood Resilience Review, to help understand local critical infrastructure and its condition, including understanding those communities that could be vulnerable to isolation due to local road flooding, and identifying vulnerable local bridges and utilities to help prevent single point of failure. This work is ongoing.
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16. Thank you for listening
Graham Pendlebury
Director of Local Transport
Cities Policy and Delivery
November 24, 2018

17. Geoff Allister
Executive Director
Highways Term Maintenance Association

18. Lila Tachtsi
Director
Transport Asset Management
Atkins

19. Parvis Khansari
ADEPT Chair of Engineering Board

21. Comparison of Forecast Spend in 2019/20 on the SRN with that on Local ‘A’ Roads
8.4 times higher, per route mile;
4.4 times higher, per lane mile; and
2.1 times higher, per vehicle mile (or 1.5 times higher, based on maintenance spend only).

22. Other Challenges in Funding Local Roads
Capital/revenue dilemma
Local roads funding in contention with social care funding
Inadequate budgets lead to more reactive maintenance
Skills and expertise
Is an alternative funding mechanism required?

23. Opportunities Public support Innovation, efficiencies and HMEP
Transport Investment Strategy
National Roads Fund
Major Roads Network
More efficient allocation of funding
Collaboration and alliances

24. Questions?