The Corporate Director Communities presented a report which provided Cabinet with an update of the Council’s current and potential future strategic transport projects and sought authorisation for schemes to go forward for any future phases of Metro or other national, regional and local funding applications.

She highlighted the various Strategic Transport Schemes that were currently in progress as well as the proposed Strategic Transport Projects as set out in section 3 of the report.

The Cabinet Member for Climate Change and the Environment highlighted that on the Active Travel Routes, there were lots of schemes listed that required funding before they could be implemented. He hoped that a number of these schemes could receive funding, namely the Brackla Halt Railway Station scheme which has been listed for around 20 years.

The Leader added that the projects listed were aspirations of the Council, and were not ones that were all in the pipeline to start immediately, however it was important to have projects that were identified in order to start when them when money was available.

The Cabinet Member Education asked if there were the opportunities for Local Members to these projects to have conversations with Officers around them as well as feed in to future discussions. The Group Manager Planning and Development Services confirmed that local Members were consulted on all new schemes as and when the process beings. Further discussions took place on this item which can be found here.

RESOLVED: that Cabinet:

1. Considered the information contained within this report and noted the progress on the Active Travel Programme and Porthcawl Metrolink.

2. Approved the proposed strategic transport projects as identified above to be included as part of any future applications to the Cardiff Capital Region Metro Programme, Levelling Up Fund, or other funding opportunities as well as the basis for discussion with other outside transport bodies on national and regional strategic transport priorities.