Decision details

Resolved to:

(i)     Support the continuation of road signing decluttering programme.

(ii)   Support the continuation of a collaborative approach supporting parish councils to identify rural HGV and traffic issues and note that a report will be brought back to this committee for decision.

Reasons

(i)     The project crosses parish and local committee boundaries so it is prudent to reach a consensus with the parish councils before seeking a decision from the relevant local committees.

(ii)   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 using the Norfolk risk assessment process.

(iii)Much work on decluttering audits by parish councils has now taken place and so it would be timely to advise the committee of progress or the trial process before rolling out the initiative to other areas.