FOI release

Spend on the planning, design and implementation of East and West bypasses

Case reference FOI2021/00061

Published 11 November 2021

Request

To the nearest million pounds, how much has been spent on the planning, design and implementation of East and West bypasses in Hereford since 2000? Information required can be an estimated and can include meetings, purchase of land and property and any other bypass related costs.

Response

The following table extracted from the council decision report dated 2 February (HEREFORD TRANSPORT STRATEGY.pdf) summarises total spend on the western bypass projects (SWTP & HTP) and totals £17,764 to the point the road schemes were cancelled. It should be noted that this includes cost of purchasing properties which are now retained assets and also includes allowance for some final outstanding costs. Table 2 is extracted and below:

Package	Spend up to March 2020	Spend in 2020/21	Estimated outstanding costs	Totals package Costs	Capital costs subject to de-capitalisation
		£000s
HTP	Rev	5,110	0	0	5,110
Cap	3,970	100	350	4,420	4,420
					9,530
SWTP	Rev	0	0	0	0
Cap	7,334	29	50	7,413	7,413
Assets *	821	0	0	821
Totals	17,235	129	400	17,764	11,833
Total required from ear marked reserves to fund decapitalisation of the HTP and SWTP	11,833

* Retained assets to a value of £821k are costs of purchasing properties. These do not need to be decapitalised as they will remain as an asset to the council.

Consideration of the east bypass has formed part of the Core Strategy policy development and more recently the Hereford Transport Strategy Review project. Assessment of the eastern bypass has formed part of these studies and as such cannot be reported separately from the overall study commission costs.

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