Decision Details

Implemented

Enhanced Partnership – Amendments to Plan and Scheme Extents

Yes

009998/2022

No

Report of Strategic Director Of Place, Prosperity and Sustainability

Tue 7 Jun 2022

This report seeks approval to develop and make an Enhanced Partnership (EP) Scheme in Birmingham City Centre, to enable the delivery of bus infrastructure in time for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, and to replace the Birmingham City Centre Advanced Quality Partnership Scheme which expires on 9^th July 2022.

The report outlines the anticipated benefits of an Enhanced Partnership Scheme for the delivery of the Games and how these benefits would be achieved.

Transport

This decision will have a significant effect on more than one Ward.

City Centre Statutory Quality Bus Partnership Scheme, Report to Cabinet Member, Transport, Environment & Regeneration 23rd February 2012
• Sprint Bus Rapid Transit Network Development and Implementation Strategy, Report to Cabinet 24th January 2018
• Vision for Bus, Transport for West Midlands 2018
• Enhanced Partnership for Sprint, Report to Cabinet 17th December 2019
• WMCA Board and Transport Delivery Committee Decisions, 2019-2021
• Birmingham Transport Plan, Report to Cabinet 12th October 2021
• West Midlands Bus Service Improvement Plan, Transport for West Midlands, 5th November 2021

Committee

Cabinet

Place, Prosperity And Sustainability

On 7 June 2022, Cabinet:-

 

1. Noted the benefits of amending the Enhanced Partnership Plan and Scheme area for improving bus travel across the whole of the City of Birmingham and the wider West Midlands Combined Authority area, in readiness for the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games and in delivering the future investment and commitments included in the West Midlands Bus Services Improvement Plan;

2. Noted that Transport for West Midlands is proposing to extend the Enhanced Partnership Plan and Scheme areas, to cover the whole of the West Midlands Combined Authority’s geographical area, with the exception of the existing Advanced Quality Partnership Scheme areas for Birmingham City Centre, Solihull Town Centre, and Wolverhampton City Centre;

    

3. Noted that Transport for West Midlands proposes to further extend the Enhanced Partnership Plan and Scheme areas, to replace the Birmingham City Centre Advanced Quality Partnership Scheme when the latter expires on 9th July 2022;

4. Supported the ambition included in the West Midlands Bus Services Improvement Plan, for all buses in the West Midlands (including all buses operating in Birmingham) to be zero emission by 2030 at the latest, subject to available funding;

5. Delegated to the Assistant Director Transport and Connectivity, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Transport, authority to negotiate and finalise any future specific facilities and/or measures under the responsibility of the Council, to be included in the amended Enhanced Partnership Scheme. If any of those facilities and/or measures include those which do not already have Full Business Case approval, or otherwise have additional financial and/or legal implications for the Council, then these would be subject to separate approvals under existing governance processes;

6. Authorised the Acting City Solicitor to negotiate, execute, seal and complete all necessary documentation to give effect to the above decisions.

 

THE DEADLINE FOR CALL IN IS 1600 HOURS ON MONDAY 13 JUNE 2022.

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