Decision details

A petition of 106 signatories was presented by Mandy Hunt.  The petition and response were published as a supplement to the agenda.  Mandy Hunt thanked the Cabinet Member for the response but asked that the whole road be taken into consideration and pointed out various locations along the road where there was lack of signage or where a crossing would be beneficial.

Catherine Baart, the Divisional Member, spoke in support of the petition.  She stated that the process for agreeing schemes like this and divisional member involvement had changed and the new process was not yet in place.  She understood that she could put forward one scheme a year. One aspect that she thought would help the situation immediately was for signage for the informal crossings from Felland Way and near Tyler’s Junction.  She had been told by officers that the signs will be sorted out when funding is available and asked the Cabinet Member when the funding was going to be available.

The Road Safety & Sustainable School Travel Team Manager explained that discussions with colleagues about the junction with Tyler’s Way where there had been a history of collisions indicated that there was an ambition for a scheme there to try and manage speeds and make crossing the road safer there.  Officers would take a look at the level of crossing demand at Tyler and Felland to see which would be the priority.  This cold then be included on the potential list of future schemes.

The Cabinet Member thanked the petitioner, divisional Member and officer for their contributions to the discussion.  He confirmed to the Divisional Member that it would be down to her to nominate her single scheme. The Select Committee had to have their input first on what new criteria was used for that. So it is the absolute priority for your area each year and on funding you can use your £7,500 revenue or parts of your £30,000 from £100,000 pounds, so funding is not an issue.