Decision details

Transfer of Street Lighting Columns to Suffolk County Council

Decision Maker: St Edmundsbury Cabinet

Decision status: Recommmend Forward to Council

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

The Cabinet will be asked to consider recommending to full Council a capital allocation for the upgrading and transfer of SEBC-owned street lighting stock (where possible) in order to reduce ongoing revenue liabilities.

Decision:

RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL (Extraordinary meeting - 17 November 2015):

 

(1)     the contents of Report No: CAB/SE/15/065 be noted; and

 

(2)     £1,810,000 of non-allocated capital be allocated to upgrade 3,027 St Edmundsbury Borough Council (SEBC) owned street lighting assets to enable 1,547 of them to be transferred and adopted by the Suffolk County Council Highway Authority and to reduce the cost to power and maintain the 1,481 lighting assets retained by SEBC (reducing annual SEBC revenue expenditure by £156,500 per annum).

 

Report author: Mark Walsh

Publication date: 22/10/2015

Date of decision: 20/10/2015

Decided at meeting: 20/10/2015 - St Edmundsbury Cabinet

Accompanying Documents: