LTPs are the central building blocks of the Government’s integrated transport policy. Their introduction was announced in the Government’s Transport White Paper ‘A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone’ published in 1998.
In 2006, all the authorities in the East Midlands had their second Local Transport Plans for the 2006-11 period scored as “excellent” or "good". At the same time, all the region’s authorities had their delivery of their first Local Transport Plans for the 2001-2006 period assessed as "excellent", "very good" or "good" with none in the “satisfactory” category.
Local Transport Capital Settlement for 2008/09
The Local Transport Capital settlement for 2008/09 was announced by the Department for Transport (DfT) in November 2007. Nationally, £1.315 billion has been awarded to local transport authorities for integrated transport and maintenance capital schemes in 2008/09.
Authorities in the East Midlands have received a total of £131 million capital funding.
This includes:
- £67million capital funding for road and bridge maintenance
- £58million capital funding for integrated transport
- £6million capital funding for maintenance on detrunked roads
Other Transport Funding for 2008/09
In addition to the above LTP Settlement, DfT allocated additional funds to local highway authorities in the East Midlands as follows:
- £9million revenue funding for maintenance on detrunked roads
- £2million capital Road Safety Grant
- £9m revenue Road Safety Grant
The Road Safety Grant, introduced for 2007/08, replaced the previous system of allocating road speed camera revenues between authorities. Further information on the Road Safety Grant allocations for 2007-11 can be found on our Road Safety page.
The spreadsheet below details the LTP Settlement categories, 2006 scores and 2008/09 allocations for our authorities. It also shows last year’s allocations for comparison. Copies of the decision letters to individual authorities are available on the Department for Transport website.
