Revenue funding for highway maintenance services

The CIHT Lugg review of local authority highways funding is looking at a number of key areas:

·         Creating a vision for effective and sustainable maintenance of the local highway network.

·         Exploring the opportunities to inspire and create real change for the industry.

·         Exploring alternative funding models and news ways of managing the local highway network.

·         Considering best practice and innovative solutions from around the world.

·         Overcoming the barriers and challenges that have limited reform before.


The review is progressing well and one issue that is being explored is the need for a ‘Totex’ approach to maintenance funding which provides ringfenced capital and revenue budgets to enable comprehensive programmes of structural maintenance and routine maintenance activities to take place.   There is no specific grant which provides revenue funding for highway maintenance services and the review is concerned that increasing pressure on adults and children’s services where there are statutory care responsibilities has resulted in reducing budget provision in services such as highway maintenance.

We wish to gain some additional feedback about local authority revenue funding for highway maintenance services to understand the issue in more detail.

We would be grateful if you could spend a few minutes answering the following questions which are directed specifically at local highway authorities.

Please respond to this survey by the 5th April 2019. Thank you. 

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1. What was your approximate revenue budget for highway maintenance services in 2018/19? Please note any significant inclusions or exclusions which you feel may affect how your budget could be compared to others.

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2. What was your approximate revenue budget for highway maintenance services in 2012/13 or nearest available year? Please note any significant inclusions or exclusions which you feel may affect how your budget could be compared to others.

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3. Have you significantly changed your model of service delivery in the intervening period? Yes or No.

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4. Where you have made savings to the revenue budget for maintenance services between 2012 and 2019, which of the following cost reduction mechanisms have you used? Please tick more than one if appropriate

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5. If possible, please rank these from 1 to 8 in order of those that you feel have delivered the greatest savings to your budgets.

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6. If you have increased your revenue budget for maintenance services
between 2012 and 2019 can you briefly set out how this came about 
(i.e. Fundamental service review, change in political priorities etc).

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7. What is the approximate length of highway that you are responsible for maintaining?

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8. Do you consider that any reductions in revenue expenditure in your area are damaging the structural integrity of the highway (i.e. weakening of the road sub structure caused by poor drainage etc.)

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9. If so how would you categorise level of damage?

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10. Do you consider that utility openings are creating long-term damage to your network?

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11. Is your annual revenue budget allocation for highways explicitly linked to the highway maintenance Relative Needs Formula which is a factor in the annual
local government finance settlement and distribution of revenue support
grant.

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12. Which of the following broadly describes your approach to revenue budget
setting for highway maintenance services?

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13. Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey, your inputs are much appreciated.

Please specify which organisation or authority that you are representing.

If you are happy to be contacted further in regard to the CIHT review of local highway funding, governance, and operation could you you please provide your email address

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