Decision details

The Local Committee (Guildford) agreed:

(i)     the implementation of road signing de-cluttering proposals developed through a risk assessment process trialled by parish councils, subject to appropriate sign off from Surrey Highways and available funding

(ii)    the continuation of a collaborative approach supporting Parish Councils to identify rural HGV and traffic issues and that a further report is brought back to this committee

Reasons:

Parish councils, with their in depth knowledge of their locality, are ideally placed to play a central role in identifying superfluous signing and street furniture and a number have already been trialling the Norfolk risk assessment process.

Much work on de-cluttering audits by parish councils has now taken place and so it would be timely to complete and review the trial assessment process before rolling out the initiative to other areas.