Confirm / provide the following information relating to active and sustainable travel:
Whether the Council has applied for (or is planning to apply for) any of the below Government funds:
Transforming Cities Fund
Reopening High Streets Safely Fund
Local Growth Fund
Towns Fund
Access Fund
The County Council has applied for the following Government funds:
Transforming Cities Fund
Local Growth Fund
Access Fund
Reopening High Streets Safely Fund and Towns Fund were primarily targeted at lower tier authorities within Devon
If so, confirm whether you have been successful in accessing funds and how much has been awarded?
Transforming Cities Fund
The County Council bid for the following projects:
| Project | Bid-DfT.* | Local Match | Total |
| Marsh Barton Station | £6.8m | £8.2m | £15m |
| Exe Bridges Bus Priority | £1.5m | £1.0m | £2.5m |
| Exeter Bus Station | £4.7m | £4.0m | £8.7m |
| Total | £13.0 | £13.2m | £26.2 |
*DfT – Department for Transport
The bid was unsuccessful. The purpose of the fund was to support the largest city regions with workday populations above 200,000 people and so Exeter with a significantly lower workday population was possibly not the intended target for the fund.
Local Growth Fund
The County Council was successful in securing funding for the following projects:
| Scheme Name | Total LGF contribution (£m) |
Total Scheme Cost (£m) | Status |
| Bridge Road, Exeter | 5.30 | 13.46 | Delivered in 2017 |
| A 382 widening, Newton Abbot | 6.50 | 13.05 | On Site- completion in Winter 2020/21 |
| A361 Portmore to Landkey Stage 1 | 0.76 | 1.58 | Delivered in 2017 |
| Roundswell Phase 2, Barnstaple | 1.64 | 2.7 | Delivered in 2017 |
| A38 Deep Lane junction, Sherford | 1.98 | 3.1 | Delivered in 2017 |
| A379 Newcourt junction, Exeter | 0.82 | 2.70 | Delivered in 2016 |
| A39 Heywood Road junction, Bideford | 0.07 | 2.83 | Awaiting final business case approval for NDLR – construction in 2021/22 |
| Marsh Barton, Exeter, New Railway Station | 4.37 | 15.0 | Contractor appointed – completion by Summer 2022 |
| Tiverton Eastern Urban Extension | 1.19 | 5.7 | Delivered in 2018 |
| Houghton Barton Package | 2.88 | 9.17 | Out to tender – construction in 2021/22 |
| TOTAL | 25.51 | 75.09 |
Access Fund
The County Council was successful in securing an initial £1.5m Access Fund grant, as below:
| Funding Source | 2017/18 (£m) | 2018/19 (£m) | 2019/20 (£m) |
| DfT Access Fund grant | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| DCC contribution | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 |
| 3rd party contribution | 0.072 | 0.097 | 0.97 |
| TOTAL | 0.592 | 0.617 | 0.617 |
If the council has any plans in place on how to use this funding?
In February 2020 Devon was awarded an additional £0.5m for financial year 2020/21
The individual and department (name and job title) responsible and how we can potentially contact them to discuss further?
For further enquiries on the above, contact Jamie Hulland (jamie.hulland@devon.gov.uk), Transportation Strategy and Road Safety Manager in Planning, Transportation and Environment
Full details of the DfT Access Fund submission is publicly available on the Travel Devon website