Appendix 1 – East Sussex County Council’s Transport budget (including specifically for active travel)

Figure 1 – East Sussex County Council Transport budget (including active travel)

Budget	2025/26
Total budget (£) your authority holds for transport this financial	£51,620,000
Total budget (£) your authority holds for Active Travel this financial year	£14,943,000

Figure 2 – Capital (2025/26)

Approved project		2025/26 (£000)
	Finance Contact	In year monitoring outturn (£000)
		Budget	Actual	Projected
Bexhill and Hastings Link Road	AF	0	0	200
BHLR Complementary Measures	AF	132	3	132
Community Match Fund - an initiative to enable Local Communities to apply for match funding to deliver additional highway projects.	BK	397	38	397
Community Road Safety Interventions	JM	422	23	422
Newhaven Port Access Road	AF	28	3	28
Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure	MS	500	0	500
Real Time Passenger Information	MS	267	-18	267
Bus Service Improvement Plan - Bus Prioritisation	MS	5,877	155	1,281
Bus Service Improvement Plan - Passenger Transport	MS	183	282	183
Bus Service Improvement Plan - 2025-26		4,555	0	1,055
Queenway Gateway Road	BK	470	365	470
Hastings Bexhill Movement and Access Programme	BK	2,346	150	2,346
Eastbourne/South Wealden Walking & Cycling Package	BK	1,892	21	1,892
Hailsham/Polegate/Eastbourne Movement & Access Corridor	BK	310	19	310
Eastbourne Town Centre Phase 2a	BK	2,290	33	2,290
Eastbourne Town Centre Phase 2b	BK	4,328	305	4,328
Other Integrated Transport Schemes	BK	4,063	254	4,063
Integrated Transport Measures A22 Corridor Package: Development costs for A22 Corridor Package Major Road Network scheme	BK	1,112	274	1,112
A22 North of Hailsham	BK	242	56	242
Area-wide Traffic Management Scheme - Schools Streets	BK	154	0	154
ATF Eastbourne Liveable Town Centre	BK	117	50	117
Hastings Town Centre Public Realm and Green Connections	BK	772	-82	772
Exceat Bridge Replacement	SS	2,587	141	2,587
Emergency Active Travel Fund - Tranche 2	BK	403	18	403
Core Programme - Highways Structural Maintenance	BK	16,667	5,066	16,667
Safer Roads Fund	AF	864	0	864
Core Programme - Rights of Way Surface Repairs and Bridge Replacement Programme	BK	642	130	642
Gross Expenditure - Planned Programme		51,620	7,286	43,724

Details of funding streams available for active travel infrastructure, initiatives and training

This includes: -

· Active Travel England – The County Council is allocated annual capital (for infrastructure) and revenue capability (for scheme development/initiatives) funding from ATE. The allocations received are based on the county’s population and ATE capability rating. These are funding the delivery of the School Streets projects and wider measures, the Peacehaven & Telscombe Active Travel scheme design work and contributing to other schemes within the Local Transport Improvements capital programme and major projects alongside officer active travel training and travel behaviour change initiatives.

· East Sussex County Council’s annualCapital Programme for Local Transport Improvements – The County Council receives an annual capital grant for the development and delivery of integrated transport schemes. These include walking, wheeling and cycle schemes as well as local junction improvement, traffic management improvements. 

For 2025/26, the grant amounted to £2.941m and was allocated to prioritised schemes, identified through requests from the members and public, within the annual capital programme of local transport improvements which was approved by the Lead Member for Transport & Environment in March 2025. 62% of this year’s capital programme of local transport improvements was allocated to active travel (walking, wheeling and cycling) schemes, which also includes a £50,000 allocation for accessibility (dropped kerbs/tactile paving) improvements.

· Development contributions – augmenting the integrated transport grant funding, development contributions – either secured via s106 agreements or from Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) bids – are used to develop and/or deliver active travel schemes – in full or in part – in the capital programme of local transport infrastructure. In addition, where appropriate, active travel infrastructure can be secured and delivered directly by development.

· Project/programme specific capital infrastructure funding – In recent years, the County Council has been successful in securing project and programme specific capital infrastructure funding to enable the development and delivery of active travel schemes through our Major Projects & Growth team. These schemes are identified within Transport for the South East’s Transport Strategy and Strategic Infrastructure Plan, the East Sussex LTP4 and Investment Plan, as well as district and borough Local Plan’s and Infrastructure Delivery Plans and the East Sussex LCWIP. Recent scheme examples include the active travel elements of the South East Local Enterprise Partnership’s Local Growth funded movement and access packages, as well as active travel and public realm improvement schemes in Eastbourne and Hastings town centres.