Purpose

Permission is sought to accept £236,460
of grant funding to develop three active travel schemes, including
design, consultation and development of the business
case.

Content

That it be DETERMINED :

1.      
To accept the City Region Sustainable Transport
Settlement funding agreement as set out in section 3 of this report
and Appendix 1

Reasons for the decision

This report seeks approval to enter a CRSTS grant
funding agreement, to enable the council to further
develop  the detailed design and full
business case submission.  The three
schemes propose improvements to highway infrastructure along the
Rochdale – Oldham – Ashton Quality Bus Transit (QBT)
corridor.