Decision details

Enhanced Partnership (National Bus Strategy)

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

Cabinet agrees to commit to an Enhanced Partnership with all bus operators in Warwickshire commencing from 1 April 2022.

Decision:

That Cabinet

1.        Authorises the Strategic Director for Communities to make the Enhanced Partnership Plan and Scheme by the end of April 2022.

2.        Authorises the Strategic Director for Communities to carry out the appropriate procedures to make the minor modifications to the Scheme mentioned in paragraph 4.2 of the report.

3.        Authorises the Strategic Director for Communities, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Transport and Planning, to make the further modifications to the Plan and Scheme mentioned in paragraph 4.5 of the report having consulted with the Department for Transport (DfT) and undertaken the necessary statutory consultations.

4.        Authorises the Strategic Director for Communities, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Transport and Planning, to submit the drafts of an Enhanced Partnership Scheme 2 and an Enhanced Partnership Scheme 3 to the DfT later in 2022-23 if he considers it appropriate in light of decisions on the award of external funding and negotiations  with operators.

Report author: Nigel Whyte

Publication date: 14/03/2022

Date of decision: 10/03/2022

Decided at meeting: 10/03/2022 - Cabinet

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