Agenda item

This report summarises progress with the Local Committee’s programme of Highways works for the current Financial Year 2017-18.

Members are asked to work with the Area Team Manager to identify their priorities for new schemes for the 2018-19 investment programme.

That the Local Committee [Elmbridge] agreed:

(i)    To prioritise St Mary’s Road, Surbiton, for resurfacing in 2018-19, using the £38,636 that was allocated for a maintenance scheme by Committee in September 2017 from the 2018-19 capital budget;

(ii)   To authorise the advertisement of a traffic regulation order to permit buses, delivery vehicles and emergency services’ vehicles to pass through a “gateway” that has been included in the detailed design for the next phase of the Burwood Road junction with Pleasant Place scheme, to provide a turning opportunity for these vehicles;

(iii)  To approve seven new ITS projects, as set out in the report, to be funded from the parking surplus allocations that are not yet fully committed;

(iv)  To approve the advertisement of a traffic regulation order for a new U-turn ban in Hampton Court Way between Embercourt Road and the Ember River bridge, in both directions, and that if there are no significant objections to the traffic regulation order, that the order is made to enable the new ban to come into force as soon as possible;

(v)   To approve nineteen new bus stop clearways as detailed in paragraphs 2.9.1 to 2.9.4 and Annexes G and H of the report;

(vi)  To authorise the Area Highway Manager in consultation with the Chairman, Vice Chairman, and relevant Divisional Member(s) to undertake all necessary procedures to deliver the agreed programmes.

Reasons: Recommendations are made to enable the 2018-19 Highways programmes funded by the Local Committee to be decided in good time to facilitate timely delivery of those programmes.

Further recommendations have been made, to facilitate implementation of the next phase of the Burwood Road junction with Pleasant Place UTS scheme, to enable a new U-turn ban to be introduced to mitigate a pattern of casualties, and to facilitate the introduction of a number of bus stop clearways.

Declarations of Interest: None

Officers attending: Nick Healey, Area Highways Manager (NE)

Petitions, Public Questions/Statements: None

Member comments – key points

Members were disappointed that the condition of the worst roads in the Borough will not be addressed in the coming year even if they are not considered to be unsafe.

Resolved:

(i)    To prioritise St Mary’s Road, Surbiton, for resurfacing in 2018-19, using the £38,636 that was allocated for a maintenance scheme by Committee in September 2017 from the 2018-19 capital budget;

(ii)   To authorise the advertisement of a traffic regulation order to permit buses, delivery vehicles and emergency services’ vehicles to pass through a “gateway” that has been included in the detailed design for the next phase of the Burwood Road junction with Pleasant Place scheme, to provide a turning opportunity for these vehicles;

(iii)  To approve seven new ITS projects, as set out in the report, to be funded from the parking surplus allocations that are not yet fully committed;

(iv)  To approve the advertisement of a traffic regulation order for a new U-turn ban in Hampton Court Way between Embercourt Road and the Ember River bridge, in both directions, and that if there are no significant objections to the traffic regulation order, that the order is made to enable the new ban to come into force as soon as possible;

(v)   To approve nineteen new bus stop clearways as detailed in the report and Annexes G and H;

(vi)  To authorise the Area Highway Manager in consultation with the Chairman, Vice Chairman, and relevant Divisional Member(s) to undertake all necessary procedures to deliver the agreed programmes.

Reasons: Recommendations are made to enable the 2018-19 Highways programmes funded by the Local Committee to be decided in good time to facilitate timely delivery of those programmes.

Further recommendations have been made, to facilitate implementation of the next phase of the Burwood Road junction with Pleasant Place UTS scheme, to enable a new U-turn ban to be introduced to mitigate a pattern of casualties, and to facilitate the introduction of a number of bus stop clearways.