D10 - Highways and Transport Committee

Authority for exercising all powers and implementing all strategies associated with the Council’s highways functions which are not otherwise reserved for Full Council or any other body.

Authority to respond, as appropriate, on behalf of the Council to Government consultation in respect of policy and/or legislation affecting transportation and its impact upon health outcomes and health inequalities.

Authority for exercising all functions of the Council relating to the following:

· Major infrastructure delivery projects (transport, highways and cycling)

· Transport and infrastructure policy;

· Transport and infrastructure funding;

· Street lighting contracts;

· Parking services;

· Road, streets, cycleways and paths maintenance – routine and reactive, operations and enforcement;

· Local Highway Improvement Initiative;

· Gritting, verge cutting and other routine works;

· Traffic management systems and regulations;

· Road safety;

· Maintaining highways and rights of way records;

· Asset Management and information;

· Highways services contracts;

· Public transport;

· Cambridgeshire Guided Busway Operations;

· Park and Ride;

· Travel for work;

· Managing the Highways Capital Programme;

· Funding bids.

Authority to approve the annual Parking Operations Report.

Authority to nominate representatives to outside bodies other than the Combined Authority, Greater Cambridge Partnership, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Fire Authority, the County Councils Network Council and the Local Government Association.

Authority to approve the Transport Delivery Plan within the County’s administrative boundary, in accordance with the relevant policies of the authority and within the budget allocated for the purpose.

In accordance with the relevant policies of the authority and within the budget allocated for the purpose, authority to determine traffic regulation orders/statutory notices where the completion of the statutory consultation process results in objections, as per the relevant highway, road traffic regulation and traffic management legislation,

Executive Director of Place and Sustainability, in consultation with the Local Members.

Authority to contribute to the Council’s duties relating to public health by assessing the health implications of decisions, seeking synergies and avoiding harmful health impacts, in order to improve population health and health equity.