Purpose

Authority to spend circa £12m+ on the
Design and Construction of seven Phase 2 schemes funded by The
Department for Transport Levelling Up Fund and supplemented by City
Regional Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS) and S106
funding.
 
Connecting West Leeds (CWL) Phase 2 Schemes
consisting of:
- Section 4: Calverley Lane Bridge
- Section 5: Dawsons Corner to Rodley Footway
and Cycleway Link
- Section 6: Rodley Roundabout Technology
Improvements
- Section 7: Calverley La North &
Calverley Bridge road safety measures
- Section 8: Footway and Cycle Ramp to
Canal
- Section 9: Landscape Mitigation
- Section 10: Average Speed Camera
Enforcement
 

Content

The Chief Officer (Highways and
Transportation):
 
a)  Noted the Executive
Board approval in June 2021 to support the Round 1 LUF bid for CWL
which received approval from The Department of Transport
(DfT) in November 2021 and Highway
Board approval for Phase 2 schemes design and construction in March
2022;
 
 
b)  Noted decision was
made by Chief Officer of Land & Property and Highways &
Transportation to purchase the land for Section 4 of the
scheme.
 
c)  Noted third party
land is also required for the preferred option (Appendix 5) for
Section 8 of the scheme subject to successful land discussions and
this will be progressed via negotiations with use of specialist
external land agents as consultancy support;
 
d)  Noted alternative
option (Appendix 5A) will be progressed for Section 8 of the scheme
if feasible should the preferred option not go ahead and there
are sufficient funding available;
 
e)  Noted planning
applications are required for both Sections 4 and 8 and pre-app
advise has been sought to inform the main applications;
 
f)  Noted the
results of Phase 2 consultation undertaken during July to September
2022, highlight results presented in Appendix 8;
 
g)  Approved the designs
presented in Appendices 1 to 7 for each section within the Phase 2
delivery; Noting detailed designs for Sections 4, 8 and 10 will be
commissioned externally via Contract 3602 - Highways and
Transportation Services Professional Services Core Contract and
detailed designs for Sections 5, 6 and 7 will be progressed via
internal H&T teams;
 
h)  Authorised the
expenditure on Phase 2 schemes, which are subject to change upon
receipt of tender costs to be funded from LUF. Noting inflationary
pressures on the current LUF CWL budget, and the work underway to
mitigate this through, exploring opportunities for additional
funding, value engineering, alternative materials and the delivery of early advanced
works:
 
•  B6156
Calverley Lane Accessible Bridge – initial cost £4.296m
(latest £7.00m)
• 
Rodley Roundabout to Dawsons Corner Pedestrian and Cycle Link –
initial cost £4.849m
• 
Rodley Roundabout Technology
Improvements – initial cost £0.633m
• 
Calverley Lane (North) No Right Turn and Island Safety Measures
– initial cost £0.215m
•  A6120 to
Leeds-Liverpool Canal Accessible Ramp – initial cost
£0.867m
•  A6120
Horsforth to Pudsey planting and landscaping – initial cost
£0.663m
•  A6120
Ring Road - Horsforth r/about to Dawson Corner - Speed reduction
enforced by new average speed cameras installations – initial
cost £0.35.
•  A6120
(Stanningley Bypass) - Dawson Corner to
Bramley Town End - Speed Reduction enforced by new average speed
cameras installations - initial cost £0.35m.
• 
Programme Management – latest £0.369m
 
i)  Approved a
further £0.30m contribution from CRSTS  towards the
implementation of new average speed camera on the A647 Bradford
Road between Dawson Corner to Thornbury Roundabout.
 
j)  Noted S106
contribution of £230k received from Horsforth Campus site to
CWL capital budget;
 
k)  Noted construction
will be delivered via one of the following frameworks, namely, the
Minor, Intermediate or Major Works Contractor Frameworks;
 
l)  Requested the
City Solicitor to advertise a Traffic Regulation Speed Limit Order
as required to introduce a 50mph speed limit on the A6120 Ring Road
(Horsforth r/about to Dawson Corner) and A6120 (Stanningley By-Pass) from Dawson Corner to Bramley
Town End as shown on drawing (1091/LCC/08/XX/DR/TM/01_02_SLO) and,
subject to no objections being received, make and seal the Orders
as advertised;
 
m)  Noted and approved the use
of average speed camera enforcement at the 3 locations detailed
above in recommendations I and J. The ability to use this
technology follows the launch of the new proactive changes adopted
by the West Yorkshire Camera Safety Partnerships on the 20th
February 2023 which now offers a new proactive and preventative
approached to speed camera deployment and casualty reduction.
All of the 3 lengths identified in
recommendations I and J meet the new criteria for average speed
camera deployment.
 
n)  Noted that the Chief
Officer (Highways and Transportation) is responsible for the
programme delivery, with a target completion date set by the
DfT of March 2024.