To accept and approve spend of £41,427.53 of Department for Transport grant funding relating to the Traffic Signal Obsolescence Grant (TSOG), a fund to upgrade traffic signal systems, replacing unreliable and obsolete equipment to improve reliability.

To accept and approve spend of £500,000.00 of Department for Transport grant funding relating to the Green Light Fund (GLF), a fund to improve the operation of traffic signals to better reflect current traffic conditions and get traffic flowing.

That:

a) Grant funding of £41,427.53 and £500,000.00 associated with the Traffic Signal Obsolescence Grant and the Green Light Fund be accepted from the Department for Transport and that authorisation is given for its spend as detailed in this report; and

b) Delegated authority is given to the Corporate Director of Economy and Environment to take all operational decisions over the lifetime of the project, to deliver the investment set out in recommendation (a)

That this grant funding is not accepted and additional investment is not made and the council continues to maintain Herefordshire’s highways in accordance with sound asset management practices but wholly within the annual maintenance allocations made available by Central Government.