Transport Asset Management Plan - Halton Borough Council
Transport Asset Management Plan - Halton Borough Council
Transport Asset Management Plan - Halton Borough Council
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<strong>Halton</strong> <strong>Borough</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
<strong>Transport</strong> <strong>Asset</strong> <strong>Management</strong> <strong>Plan</strong><br />
1.3 The Objectives and Benefits of a <strong>Transport</strong> <strong>Asset</strong> <strong>Management</strong> <strong>Plan</strong><br />
1.3.1 Influences on the TAMP<br />
Our TAMP is influenced at the strategic level through Statute, Central Government direction and<br />
guidelines. At a regional level the influence comes from the LTP process. Corporately the TAMP has<br />
to reflect the <strong>Council</strong>’s Corporate <strong>Plan</strong>, which has five priorities. These are: -<br />
• A healthy <strong>Halton</strong>;<br />
• <strong>Halton</strong>’s urban renewal;<br />
• <strong>Halton</strong>’s children and young people;<br />
• Employment, learning and skills in <strong>Halton</strong>;<br />
• A safer <strong>Halton</strong>.<br />
At an operational level the TAMP also needs to take account of the legal duties and responsibilities<br />
placed on the <strong>Council</strong> as highway authority and where appropriate best practice guidance specific to<br />
its areas of operation such as relevant Codes of Practice (C of P) and national works specifications.<br />
The TAMP must also take into consideration customer expectations, availability of funding,<br />
identification of annual programmes of work and appropriate levels of service for the transportation<br />
infrastructure.<br />
1.3.2 Objectives and Benefits<br />
The compilation of a TAMP will provide the <strong>Council</strong> with a tool to: -<br />
• Support the Corporate need for detailed information on its assets held authority wide.<br />
• Establish and communicate a clear relationship between the programme set out in the<br />
TAMP and the authority’s LTP targets and objectives.<br />
• Ensure existing highway assets are in a condition compatible with the delivery of the<br />
LTP.<br />
• Enable the value for money of local road maintenance to be considered more<br />
effectively against other local transport spending, eventually assisting in local transport<br />
strategy and plan production.<br />
• Obtain and organise information to support Whole Government Accounting (WGA)<br />
requirements.<br />
1.3.3 Maintenance Strategy<br />
A maintenance strategy is outlined in this TAMP that will set the framework for determining transport<br />
asset maintenance requirements in the <strong>Borough</strong>, for developing maintenance regimes in the longer<br />
term and for ensuring that work programs contribute to meeting many of the aims and objectives<br />
associated with the <strong>Council</strong>’s five priorities referred to in paragraph 1.3.1.<br />
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