To note progress against the Service Improvement Plan and adopt a suite of policies required to meet the criteria for the Incentive Fund Bid for Highways capital funding in 2019/20.

1.      That the following key documents be adopted:

·      Highways Service Communications Strategy, set out in Appendix A to the report

·      Highways Asset Management Framework, set out in Appendix B to the report

·      Highways Service Trees Policy, set out in Appendix C to the report.

2.      To authorise the Director for Community Services, in consultation with the Executive Member for Community Services, to adopt the following documents that are currently being prepared:

·      Highways Asset Condition Survey Regime

·      Network Maintenance Management Plan (NMMP)

·      Highways Asset Performance Management Framework.