Agenda and decisions
Cabinet Member for Transport, Highways and Environment Decisions - Wednesday, 9 October 2013 2.00 pm
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Contact: Anne Gowing
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DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
To receive any declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests from Members in respect of any item to be considered at the meeting. |
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PROCEDURAL MATTERS
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Members' Questions
The deadline for Member’s questions is 12pm four working days before the meeting (3 October 2013). |
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Public Questions
The deadline for public questions is seven days before the meeting (2 October 2013). |
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Petition - Adoption of Forty Foot Road
The deadline for petitions was 14 days before the meeting, and no petitions have been received.
The Cabinet Member for Transport, Highways and Environment is providing a response to the recommendation of the Environment and Transport Select Committee to consider the Fortyfoot Road petition which it received during its meeting on 19 July 2013.
The report and recommendations in response to the petition were brought to the meeting under Rule 6.05(f) (Special Urgency), having obtained the agreement of the Chairman of the Environment & Transport Select Committee that the decision was urgent and could not reasonably be deferred. Additional documents: Decision: 1. The highway reconstruction and drainage works in Forty Foot Road set out in Annex 1 to this decision sheet be agreed with funding to be provided on the basis set out in the report submitted
2. Surrey County Council adopt the main section of Forty Foot Road (from Poplar Road up to and including the gyratory serving Woodlands School) serving the public services located on the road following the completion of the highway works identified in recommendation 1 to ensure the road meets the required adoptable standard. |
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Speed Limit Review - A217 Reigate Road
The Cabinet Member for Transport, Highways and Environment is asked to consider whether to endorse the Mole Valley Local Committee’s request to reduce the speed limit on the A217 Reigate Road, Hookwood. Under the County’s Speed Limit Policy, the Cabinet Member for Transport, Highways and Environment is given the authority to endorse a new speed limit which does not comply with the policy. Additional documents: Decision: 1. The request of the Mole Valley Local Committee to reduce the speed limit on the A217 Reigate Road, Hookwood from the Reigate & Banstead borough boundary to Mill Lane, from 50mph to 40mph not be endorsed.
2. The request of the Mole Valley Local Committee to reduce the speed limit on the A217 Reigate Road, Hookwood from Mill Lane to the Hookwood Roundabout, from 50mph to 40mph be endorsed. |
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Reigate and Banstead Speed Limit Assessment - A217 Dovers Green Road / Reigate Road
To consider whether to endorse the Reigate & Banstead Local Committee’s request to reduce the speed limit on the A217 Reigate Road from 50mph to 40mph, between a point approximately 100m south of Ironsbottom and the Reigate & Banstead boundary. Under the County’s Speed Limit Policy, the Cabinet Member for Transport, Highways & Environment is given the authority to endorse a new speed limit which does not comply with the policy.
Additional documents: Decision: The request of the Reigate & Banstead Local Committee to reduce the speed limit of the A217 Reigate Road between a point approximately 100m south of Ironsbottom and the Reigate & Banstead boundary from 50mph to 40mph not be endorsed and remain unchanged at 50mph. |
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Proposed Exchange of Highway Land at North Street, Guildford
A joint Guildford Borough Council and Surrey County Council scheme for environmental and pedestrian safety improvements in North Street, Guildford involves footway widening that requires the partial relocation of public parking spaces that are owned by the Borough Council on to land that forms part of the public highway.
The Borough Council have agreed to dedicate the land required for the footway improvement in return for the area of highway land that will become part of the parking spaces being stopped up and transferred to them.
The Cabinet Member is asked to approve entering into an agreement with the Borough Council under section 256 of the Highways Act 1980, whereby the land required for the footway widening will be exchanged for the highway land that is to be used for the relocation of the parking spaces.
Additional documents: Decision: Subject to the requirements of section 256 of the Highways Act 1980, the County Council enter into an agreement with Guildford Borough Council for the exchange of highway land as detailed in the report submitted. |
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To award a fixed price contract to the recommended tenderer for the provision of structural works to commence in November 2013. Decision: 1. The information relating to the procurement process, as set out in the report submitted, be noted.
2. The award of a contract be agreed on the basis set out in the Part 2 report submitted. |