Grant funding has been accepted by the Assistant Director for Highways and Infrastructure in conjunction with the S151 Officer as per paragraph 2d of Part 3C of the Constitution. The Council will utilise the grant funding sum of £654,918 in 2023/24 from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to facilitate the upgrading of the Council’s traffic signals to Light Emitting Diode, and the replacement of corroded traffic signal poles at sites receiving the Light Emitting Diode upgrade. The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has established a framework agreement for the light emitting diode signal upgrade works with Yunex limited and the council will utilise Yunex for the delivery of works pursuant and subject to the terms of the framework agreement.