Issue - meetings

This report relates to the Whittlesey Relief Road Strategic Outline Business Case (SOC) and possible opportunities to fund the recommendations from this 2025 study. 

AGREED to:

·         Write to the CPCAA under the budget consultation to request inclusion of the cost of the next Whittlesey Relief Road report in the CPCA 2026/27 budget or, failing that, in the MTFS for 2027/28.

·         Contact Whittlesey Town Council requesting that they consider offering financial support towards the cost of the budget.

·         Consider inclusion within FDC’s next budget or MTFS for the provision of funds to cover or contribute towards the cost of the next Whittlesey Relief Road report, as a backstop position.

Members considered the Whittlesey Relief Road report presented by Councillor Boden on behalf of Councillor Christy.

Proposed by Councillor Boden, seconded by Councillor Mrs French and AGREED to:

·         Write to the CPCAA under the budget consultation to request inclusion of the cost of the next Whittlesey Relief Road report in the CPCA 2026/27 budget or, failing that, in the MTFS for 2027/28.

·         Contact Whittlesey Town Council requesting that they consider offering financial support towards the cost of the budget.

·         Consider inclusion within FDC’s next budget or MTFS for the provision of funds to cover or contribute towards the cost of the next Whittlesey Relief Road report, as a backstop position.

(Councillor Boden declared that he is a member of Whittlesey Town Council and on the board of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority).