Issue - meetings

This paper is to brief members on the business case for Greater Redhill Sustainable Transport Package, which was submitted to the C2C Local Enterprise Partnership on 15 December 2014.  The proposals will require a public consultation which has been tentatively arranged for a 6 week period commencing 19 June and ending on 31 July to fit in with the tight timescale for delivery.

The Local Committee (Reigate & Banstead) agreed:

(i)    To note the project content.

(ii)   To approve the project to be the subject of consultation during June/July 2015.

(ii)      To delegate authority to the Area Highways Manager in consultation with the Chairman, Vice Chairman and Electoral Division Members covered by the project to agree the consultation material.

Reason:

To ensure that the Local Committee are kept informed, the Local Committee is asked to note the progress made so far with the Greater Redhill Sustainable Transport Package.

Due to the tight timescales for delivery, a six week consultation period has been tentatively arranged to enable the results of the consultation to be presented to the meeting of this committee on 14 September to enable works to commence during the autumn of 2015 (on National Cycle Route 21).

The project will also require a number of approvals from this committee for example allowing cycling on widened footways and the advertisement of notices for the installation of toucan crossings and certain traffic orders.

However, these are currently in development and form part of the design process and will be presented to a later meeting of this committee.

Declarations of Interest: None

Officers attending: Paul Fishwick LSTF Project Manager

SCC

Petitions, Public Questions, Statements: None

Member Discussion – key points:

Members were advised that funding had been awarded for the Greater Redhill Sustainable Transport Package, which was submitted to the C2C Local Enterprise Partnership on 15 December 2014. The proposals will require a public consultation, which has been arranged for a 6 week period commencing on 19 June and ending on 31 July 2015, to fit in with the tight timescale for delivery.  A further report on Greater Redhill Sustainable Transport Package would be brought to the Local Committee in September.

Members were informed that as part of the consultation an exhibition would be held at East Surrey Hospital on 9 and 11 July 2015.  Members welcomed the scheme and asked how the consultation would be promoted.  The consultation would be ‘on line’, hard copies of the survey would be available and it would also be tweeted about.  The consultation would be targeted at businesses, community groups and the hospital etc.

The Local Committee (Reigate & Banstead) agreed:

(i)    To note the project content.

(ii)   To approve the project to be the subject of consultation during June/July 2015.

(iii)  To delegate authority to the Area Highways Manager in consultation with the Chairman, Vice Chairman and Electoral Division Members covered by the project to agree the consultation material.

Reasons:

To ensure that the Local Committee is kept informed, the Local Committee is asked to note the progress made so far with the Greater Redhill Sustainable Transport Package.

Due to the tight timescales for delivery, a six week consultation period has been tentatively arranged to enable the results of the consultation to be presented to the Local Committee on 14 September to enable works to commence during the autumn of 2015 (on National Cycle Route 21).

The project will also require a number of approvals from this committee for example allowing cycling on widened footways and the advertisement of notices for the installation of toucan crossings and certain traffic orders.

However, these are currently in development and form part of the design process and will be presented to a later meeting of this committee.