Highways toolkit helps identify efficiencies

02 May 2007

Highways authorities have been armed with ways of showing that ‘cashable’ efficiency savings have been made because the same quality of service is being delivered.
A new ‘highways efficiency toolkit’ has been drawn up to help local authorities identify and measure efficiency gains. It explains how to provide ‘quality crosschecks’, necessary to justify cashable efficiencies, to counter any claims that savings are actually cuts.
The crosschecks include checking whether or not the condition of principal roads and the speed with which streetlighting faults are repaired declines. Examples of cashable efficiencies are also given, which include: Bromley’s combining its streetlighting improvement and maintenance contracts; Cheshire’s introduction of a ‘jetpatching’ process for filling in potholes; and Worcestershire’s giving minor works to parish lengthsmen.
It also includes the estimated level of inflation that councils should use in calculating their efficiency savings for 2006/07.

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