Decision details

Councillor C Renwick introduced a report which had been circulated in advance of the meeting, updating members on the Restoring Your Railway Programme in Derbyshire and the potential for accessing Staveley Town Deal funding to support delivery of key elements of the related infrastructure.

RESOLVED to:

1)    Note the Strategic Outline Business Cases which have been submitted for the Barrow Hill, Ivanhoe and Maid Marian lines Restoring Your Railway proposals and the further work carried out since on the Barrow Hill line to better understand the practical issues involved in the project;

2)    Note the continued uncertainty about what the Department for Transport will decide in terms of the future of the Restoring Your Railway Programme, the central Government funding which will be made available to pay for it and the level of any local contribution that may be expected from partners, including the County Council;

3)    Agree to move to the Outline Business Case/Final Business Case stage on the Barrow Hill Line project in partnership with Chesterfield Borough Council, North East Derbyshire District Council and Sheffield City Region, subject to sufficient funding being made available by the Department for Transport to pay for this work to be carried out; and

4)    Note the actions taken to date to secure the provisional grant offer of £934,000 from the Staveley Town Deal Board and, subject to securing a satisfactory agreement on future funding from the Restoring Railway Fund Programme for this project, agrees to accept the grant towards the costs of introducing additional measures around the proposed Barrow Hill station, which will not be funded by the Restoring Your Railway process.