URL: https://democracy.somerset.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=2270

Decision Maker:

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Purpose:

Content: Having been duly proposed and seconded, the Executive Resolved to:- 1)    Approve £1m carry forward from the 2025/26 revenue budget. Combine it with the £1m allocated for 2026/27 to create a £2m budget to establish and mobilise a new programme of work overseen by a Steering Group to deliver additional, high-visibility highway maintenance activity. 2)    Note that the wider ambition was to invest up to £5m over three years; and that funding beyond 2026/27 would be considered as part of future budget-setting processes. 3)    Agree that the Steering Group would operate with a flexible programme approach, enabling resources to be directed quickly to priority locations/issues as determined by the Steering Group and informed by reporting, local intelligence and asset data.

Date of Decision: April 1, 2026