London: Study reveals slow uptake on asset management plans

31 May 2006
 
All but three London boroughs have started work on a highways asset management plan but only one has produced a full draft, a survey has revealed.
The survey by Chris Britton Consultancy for the London Technical Advisors Group, which received 20 responses from London’s 33 boroughs, found that eight intend to publish an asset management plan within the next 12 months.
Six of the local highway authorities had made no progress on the valuation of their highways networks, while a further six had made a ‘broadbrush’ stab at valuing the multimillion-pound asset in accordance with whole Government accounting principles. Also still to come in most cases were the service standards each authority would strive to meet in terms of improving the asset – 17 had ‘partially’ done this. Eighteen had full inventory data for streetlighting and 17 for bridges and other structures but fewer than half had a full picture of their street furniture, signs, trees and verges and eight had only partial information on their carriageways.
The majority wanted more information on asset management, prompting LoTAG to consider how to plug the possible gaps in knowledge. The LoTAG infrastructure group decided last month to send out a further questionnaire to each London borough asking them to identify areas where they feel training might help.
Former Department for Transport  head of maintenance Ian Holmes expressed the hope two years ago that asset management would help highways officers to secure council funds (Surveyor, 10 June 2004).

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