Issue details

Following a successful funding bid to the Sheffield City Region (SCR) Combined Authority, this report seeks approval for the acceptance of the Sustainable Transport Exemplar Fund (STEP) capital grant for 2016/17 and 2017/18.

This STEP project programme has a value of £11.880m over the three years from 2015/16 to 2017/18. Expenditure in 2015/16 has already been accounted for and grant paid to partner authorities across South Yorkshire. As such, expenditure in 2015/16 has been excluded from this report.  

For 2016/17 and 2017/18 SCR are requiring a formal funding agreement with project promotors. In order to maintain the flexibility of managing a Countywide programme, Sheffield City Council will act as grant recipient and accountable body for the STEP capital grant with Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster all acting as delivery partners.   

This report therefore seeks approval for the acceptance of £9.645m STEP capital grant for 2016/17 and 2017/18. The detail of the allocations by delivery partner by project by year is shown in Appendix A of the report.