Agenda No 5 AGENDA MANAGEMENT SHEET

Name of Committee Area Committee

Date of Committee 12 April 2011

Report Title Capital Programme for Transport 2011-12

Summary The report sets out the proposed 2011-12 Capital Programmes for the Delegated Budgets for Warwick Area.

For further information Chris Burrows please contact Transport Planning Tel. 01926 412421 chrisburrows@.gov.uk

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Warwick Area Committee – 12 April 2011

Capital Programme for Transport 2011-12

Report of the Strategic Director for Environment and Economy

Recommendation That Members:-

1. Support the 2011-12 Delegated Budget Local Schemes (Minor Improvements) Programme for Warwick Area given in Table 1.

2. Support the 2011-12 Safety Engineering Schemes Programme for Warwick Area given in Table 2/3/4.

3. Support the 2011-12 Dropped Kerb Crossing Programme for Warwick Area in Paragraph 4.

4. Support the 2011-12 Drainage Programme for Warwick Area given in Table 5.

5. Support the 2011-12 Carriageway & Footway Programme for Warwick Area given in Tables 6/7.

6 Support the 2011-12 Street Lighting Programme for Warwick Area given in Table 8/9. Officers will liaise with Members on the highest priority.

1. Introduction

1.1 A Transport Capital Seminar for Warwick Area Committee members was held on 1 February 2011. At the seminar draft 2011-12 programmes for Delegated Budgets were discussed. The purpose of this report is to enable the Area Committee to formally agree the proposed programmes of work which were discussed at the seminar. Details of how it is proposed to allocate the delegated budget for all five Area Committees will be reported to Cabinet for approval on 12 May 2011.

2. Delegated Budgets for Warwick Area

2.1 At the Transport Seminar on 1st February 2011, Members were presented with two lists of requests that had been received for Local Schemes. These requests were considered and the schemes listed in Table 1 were subsequently selected for implementation from the delegated budgets.

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Table 1 – Delegated Budget Local Safety Schemes (Minor Improvements) Programme for Warwick Area 2011-12

Ref Location Estimate Councillor Detail/Comments 08/WAR/09/10 £9,500 Councillor Request from Parish Council for de- Lane Doody cluttering of signs throughout the village. A reduction in the speed limit from 60mph to 30mph on Old Milverton Road from Old Milverton Village to Milverton. This will remove the existing 60mph speed limit signs along the road but retain the Village Gateway signs. 04/WAR/11/12 Woodloes £6,000 Councillor A request for a dropped kerb crossing Avenue South Ashford and footway extension to allow people to cross the road to access the doctors surgery and the greenway. 05/WAR/11/12 Bridge Street £15,000 Councillor & Caborn Request from Parish Council for the Wellesbourne speed limit on Watery Lane / Road Fullbrooke Lane & Vicarage Lane to entrances into be reduced to 30mph. Also the Barford introduction of Weight Restriction signing. There has been NO injury Watery Lane/ accidents at this location during the Fullbrooke past three years Lane/ Vicarage Lane Sherbourne 07/WAR/11/12 £8,000 Councillor Budbrooke Parish Council was Village Caborn awarded £19,500 last year to including implement measures to reduce vehicle Hampton speeds and improve safety, within the Magna & village of Hampton on the Hill and Hampton on Hampton Magna. A design has been the Hill completed for improved signing, carriageway markings and alterations to exiting build-outs. At the Budbrooke Parish Council meeting on the 27/1/2011 to approve a list of measures, the total cost of all these improvements exceeds the current budget, and therefore a provision for additional funding of £8,000 is requested. 09/WAR/11/12 Footbridge £11,000 Councillor A request to install LED lighting strips, linking Farmer Cockburn / which includes ancillary equipment, Ward Road / (Please Councillor electricity company connection, Priory Road, see note Whitehouse Network Rail legal agreement and below) supervision. This footbridge is on an important walking route between the town centre and the Windy Arbour side of the town, and lighting it in the way proposed would make a valuable contribution to improving accessibility and safety especially in the darker winter months.

AreaW/0411/ww1 4 of 10 1/WAR/11/12 Zebra £20,000 Councillor After a discussion, Warwick Area Crossing- Doody Committee agreed that a feasibility Rugby Road, study into the provision of a pedestrian crossing on Rugby Road, Cubbington be carried out. If this scheme is feasible it will be implemented during financial year 2011/12 from this funding. If it is not feasible, the funding will be returned to Warwick Area Committee for re-allocation. 12/WAR/11/12 Sandy Lane, Councillors Mrs Measures to be implemented to lower Blackdown - £6,000 Boad / Goode the speed limit. The issue of the North speed limit on Sandy Lane was raised Leamington at the North Leamington Community School. Forum, as there are concerns regarding the speed of vehicles near to the school. There have been two slight injury accident during the past three years. 15/WAR/11/12 Lime Avenue, £6,000 Councillors Mrs This is heavily used by pedestrians L/Spa – Goode/Boad especially school children. It Is also Interactive used as a ‘rat-run’. Interactive signs Signs have been requested to help with slowing down vehicles. Members should note that future maintenance and running costs of these signs could bring significant pressure on revenue budgets. There has been three slight injury accidents during the past three years. 16/WAR/11/12 Clarendon £6,000 Councillor To improve layout with new lining. Avenue / Naylor Kenilworth Road

Note: A further £4,000 was requested to include laying 40 metres of ‘corduroy tactile paving’ in front of Build Base, to assist passage to the new pedestrian crossing in Waverley Road as part of the scheme, but no funding was allocated, and this was deferred pending a decision on the Kenilworth Station Scheme.

3. Safety Engineering requests

Cluster Sites

3.1 A cluster site is defined as an area or individual location where 6 or more injury collisions have occurred in the last three years. Each year, a priority list is developed that ranks these sites, in order of greatest number of collisions. Members proposed to allocate funding to the following sites in Table 2 below.

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Table 2 – Delegated Budget Safety Engineering Schemes (Cluster Sites) Programme for Warwick Area 2011-12

Road Location Number Number of Suggested Cost Councillors No of casualties measures collisions (3 year (3 year period) period) A452 Kenilworth Road 6 6 (including 3 New Warning Signs £10,000 Davis jct. Northumberland vulnerable road Goode Road users) Boad

Emscote Road – 12 14 (including 6 Surfacing and £15,000 Warner A445 Railway bridge to vulnerable lining Tesco’s road users and 1 fatality) Stoneleigh Road 6 9 Surfacing and £24,000 Doody B4113 near Stareton lining Lane. Vicinity of 9 15 Warning signs £20,000 Caborn A429 and surfacing. A junction reduction in the speed limit into Wasperton Village from Wellesbourne Road. An assessment will be undertaken to establish the most appropriate speed limit for implementation.

Speed Limits

3.2 Following the implementation of the review of A and B roads in Warwickshire, members were invited to attend a seminar in October 2009, to discuss a similar review of C and D roads. Although this was popular with some Members, it was not considered a priority for funding.

3.3 The results of the monitoring of the A and B roads review has shown significant improvement in reductions in speed and accidents numbers, on the majority of routes where lowered speed limits have been implemented.

3.4 However, not all the routes have been wholly successful and to address these routes it is desirable to include further measures to control speeds, and therefore influence accident rates. Members are requested to consider funding additional measures, as described to improve compliancy with the reduced speed limit.

3.5 Additionally, some A or B roads were not reduced at the time of the review, and these continue to be of concern to residents and Members. It is clear from those routes were limits have been lowered, that there is a related reduction in

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Table 3 – Delegated Budget Safety Engineering Schemes (Speed Limits) Programme for Warwick Area 2011-12

Route Route Number Number of Suggested Cost Councillors Number Description of casualties(3 measures collisions year period) (3 year period) A445 to 6 7 50 mph £6,000 Doody Leamington proposed Boad Goode

C and D road, Speed Limits.

3.6 As stated above, Members have been consulted on the potential review of speed limits on C and D roads. Although there is no funding for a full review of C and D roads, some members have been concerned about individual roads in their areas. In Table 5 below the following is a list of those routes that officers have been made aware of by members, and have been preliminarily reviewed for changes to individual limits.

Table 4 – Delegated Budget Safety Engineering Schemes (C&D Road Speed Limits) Programme for Warwick Area 2011-12

Route Route Number Number Suggested Number Description of of measures Cost Councillors collisions casualties (3 year (3 year period) period) C25 The Cumsey 1 2 50mph proposed £6,000 Compton D7069 Glasshouse 1 1 50mph proposed £6,000 Shilton Lane Doody Kenilworth D6017 Mallory 0 0 50mph proposed £6,000 Caborn Road, Bishops Tachbrook D5071 Hollis Lane 1 2 50mph proposed £6,000 Shilton Kenilworth Whitehouse

4. Dropped Kerb Crossings

4.1 Members proposed to allocate £20,000 towards dropped kerb crossings. This funding could be used to either upgrade existing crossings or to provide new ones.

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5.1 After consideration, members propose to provide £70,000 to fund the drainage schemes. This enables the funding of a highway drainage maintenance gang for nearly six months. The schemes listed in Table 5 below are proposed.

Table 5 – Delegated Budget Minor Drainage Schemes Programme for Warwick Area 2011-12

County Councillor Parish Location Work Required Warner Warwick o/s 20, The Butts Replace broken pipe Warner Warwick Bridge End Collapsed pipes between manholes Birmingham Rd nr Old Caborn Budbrooke Blocked/collapsed drainage system Budbrooke Rd 2 blocked gullies and blockage on carrier Davis Leamington Beauchamp Hill drain Replace broken pipe work on connection Davis Milverton Rugby Road from road gully Tachbrook Street near Green Bould Leamington Install gully to prevent flooding Man Replace to swan necks on gully Hopkinson Warwick Lytleton Road connections Replace broken pipe work to highway Hopkinson Warwick Cape Road drainage system Compton Bakers Lane o/s Deer Park Farm Expose headwall and add new road gully Compton Old Warwick Rd o/s Foxbrook New section of ACO drain to gully Replace collapsed gully near 40/50 mph Compton Warwick A429 near Saxon Mill sign Crackley Lane nr South Hurst Whitehouse Kenilworth Replace culvert near entrance to Farm Farm Whitehouse Kenilworth o/s Coventry Road Replace broken pipe Whitehouse Kenilworth Bridge Street near Pears Close Replace blocked gully at bus stop Side of 32 & opposite 18 Keeling Shilton Kenilworth Replace blocked gullies and pipes Road Add new gully to prevent flooding and Cockburn Kenilworth o/s 26, Thickthorn Close ponding o/s Rosswood Farm Coventry Install new gully to remove water standing Doody Bagington Road on carriageway Clean out ditches, unblock culverts and Doody Top of Main Street replace headwalls

6. Carriageways

Table 6 – Delegated Budget Carriageway Schemes Programme for Warwick Area 2011-12

Estimated Location Road Feature Treatment Costs 1. Lillington Crown Way from Carriageway Resurface at Clarendon, Crown B4453 Cubbington (2700m²) 40mm & repair / & Manor Ward Road to Valley re-seal concrete £57,000 Cllrs Boad & Road road joints Goode

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Table 7 – Delegated Budget Footway Schemes Programme for Warwick Area 2011-12

Estimated Location Road Feature Treatment Costs 1. Tachbrook Street Pedestrian Take out trees & Brunswick Ward Brunswick St to Footway area replace / re-lay £35,000 Cllr. Bould Eagle St failed areas of paving

8. Street Lighting Schemes

8.1 Mercury lanterns - Within the area there are 228 80 Watt Mercury (MBF) lamp lanterns still in operation. Following the recent implementation of a European Union directive this light source will be withdrawn in 2015.

These lanterns are installed in the following towns:

Kenilworth: 9 No. Leamington Spa: 56 No. Warwick: 163 No.

The following roads in Leamington Spa and Warwick have been surveyed with a view to replacing these lanterns with more energy efficient units:

Members proposed to allocate £31,500 to partly fund from the two tables below. This funding will be allocated as a block header, officers will liaise with Members to prioritise the works listed in Table 8/9 below.

Leamington Spa

Table 8 – Delegated Budget Street Lighting Schemes Programme for Warwick Area 2011-12

Street Name No. of lanterns Street Cost Astley Close 2 £670.00 Beverley Road 11 £3685.00 Bordesley Court 3 £1995.00 Fernhill Drive 7 £4655.00 Hadrian Close 7 £4655.00 The Fairways 16 £5360.00 The Grange 1 £500.00 Totals 47 £21520.00

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Warwick

Table 9 – Delegated Budget Street lighting Schemes Programme for Warwick Area 2011-12

Street Name No. of lanterns Street Cost Bennett Drive 10 £6650.00 Croft Close 3 1995.00 Dodd Avenue 8 £5320.00 Greaves Close 4 2660.00 Griffin Road 10 £6650.00 Moore Walk 1 £665.00 Ward Grove 10 £6650.00 Myton Crescent 15 £9975.00 The Malins 4 £2660.00 Totals 65 £43225.00

9. Financial Implications

9.1 The Highways Maintenance and Safety Budget was approved by the County Council on 9 February 2010. £2 million was allocated across the County; £400,000 to each of the County’s five areas. Details of how it is proposed to allocate the delegated budget for all five Area Committees will be reported to Cabinet on 12 May 2011.

Paul Galland Strategic Director for Environment and Economy Shire Hall Warwick

17 March 2011

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