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Approve an increase to the
capital budget for the A509 Isham Bypass by £0.790m, subject
to full Council agreeing the virement of £0.790m of capital
budget from the 2023/24 Integrated Transport Block allocation
(£0.600m) and 2024/25 Integrated Transport Block allocation
(£0.190m) to the A509 Isham Bypass.
 
The A509 Isham Bypass forms the
first part of a strategy to dual the whole A509 between the A14
south of Kettering and the A45 at Wellingborough. 
 
As reported to Executive in
November 2021, funding totalling £2.798m had been secured to
develop the Outline Business Case and planning application for the
scheme.  Full Council in March 2023
agreed further additional funding of £1.573m.
 
Further funding of
£0.790m is now needed to update the traffic modelling for the
scheme, as requested by the Department for Transport, and to allow
for responding to queries from the Council’s planning
officers during their consideration of the planning application and
the Department for Transport during their assessment of the Outline
Business Case.