Bradford District Local Infrastructure Baseline Study - working draft ...

In addition to these strategies there are a number of sub-regional strategic plans such as the
West Yorkshire Local transport Plan 2011-2026 and its first Implementation Plan 2011-2014
and the Leeds City Region Transport Vision. The delivery of many of the infrastructure
elements within these strategies is reliant upon securing Government and/or third-party
funding. However, this has posed significant challenges to the Council and other parties in
the current fiscal environment.
Over the next 3 financial years, West Yorkshire will suffer from an annual average 42% cut
in Integrated Transport funding and a 16% cut in Highways Maintenance compared to
original 2010/11 allocations. There has also been a transfer of Road Safety Grant to the
Revenue Support Grant. These changes to transport funding are in addition to in year
2010/11 cuts in Integrated Transport funding, funding for the West Yorkshire Strategic
Programme of Schemes and Road Safety Capital Grant.
The Department for Transport capital block funding allocations for transport schemes in
West Yorkshire for the next 3 years are shown below. Integrated Transport funding will be
paid directly to the West Yorkshire Integrated Transport Authority (WYITA) rather than to the
individual five District Councils and Metro as previously. Consequently the WYITA now have
the responsibility for approving the overall Integrated Transport programmes. Highways
Asset Maintenance funding will be paid through the WYITA to individual Councils and thus
the Council will remain responsible for approving this programme of work.
Table: LTP3 Funding for First Implementation Plan 2011/12 to 2013/14
The third West Yorkshire Local Transport Plan Strategy 2011 – 2026 and its first
Implementation Plan 2011 – 2014 have been developed by the WYITA with support from all
five West Yorkshire Districts. Whilst the Department for Transport had previously been very
prescriptive about the content and performance management of previous LTPs, this is
relaxed for LTP3 giving more flexibility for the development of plans more suited to local
circumstances. The current LTP has been developed to deliver three key objectives:
• To make substantial progress towards a low carbon transport system for West
Yorkshire.
• To improve connectivity to support economic activity and growth across West
Yorkshire and the Leeds City Region
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