Asset Management Plan - Newcastle City Council

Signs, Barriers & Street Furniture Life Cycle PlanThe following are the service option categories selected for inclusion in theHAMP♦ Statutory (Minimum): Meeting statutory or legislative requirements only♦ Existing: Is the effect of a continuance of current funding levels♦ Requested: The amount of additional funding required based on customerexpectations and political aspirations♦ Optimum Service: Assesses constraints as well as desires to identify aneconomically optimal Level of Service. This option is determined from thelife cycle planning process.♦ Attainable Service: Re-interprets the optimum option in the light ofavailable resources. (E.g. budget constraints).Table 20.7.1 below details the service options determined for the asset.Table 20.7.1 Signs, Barriers & Street Furniture Service OptionsAsset GroupStatutory MinimumExisting(2005/6 Budget)Requested AdditionalFundingOptimumGeneraldescription ofeach ServiceOptionMinimum (Reactive)level of service meetingstatutory or legislativerequirements only.The current LoStypically as set out inthe City’s MP ornational. COPsA LoS that attempts tomeet customerexpectations andpolitical aspirationsLoS based uponengineering principles& technical judgementSigns,Barriers &StreetFurnitureApprox. £130K paReplace potentiallyhazardous and damagedsigns & furniture only butthis would be offset by arise in reactivemaintenance in futureyears.Approx. £130K paAt present onlyreactive maintenanceis undertaken.Estimated at anadditional £1.57m pafor 5 years, plus anadditional £0.87m pathereafterThis will bring theassets up to anacceptable standardand remove thebacklog of works. Thisis based on a 20%sample of surveyedassets using bothinventory and conditioninformationEstimated at £1.7m pafor 5 years, thereafter£1.0m pa for lifecyclereplacementsMore flexible “needs”based maintenanceschedule. Signs &street furnitureinspected, cleaned andpainted on a regularbasis in order tomaintain the assetcondition in line withthe Code of Practice20.7.2 Levels of ServiceLevels of Service identified by Newcastle City Council specific to the Signs,Barriers and Street Furniture can be found in table 20.11.1 along with theiridentified performance measures.20.7.3 BacklogUsing the estimated condition ratings based on the condition survey, a currentbacklog figure has been calculated for each of the assets based on works beingrequired to any asset that falls within rating bands 4, 5 and M. (See table 20.3.1)Current backlog figures are shown in table 20.7.2 below.212