Agenda item

This report summarises progress with the Local Committee’s programme of Highways works for the current Financial Year 2019-20.

Members are asked to approve the Local Structural Repair (LSR – large scale patching) programme for next Financial Year 2020-21.

That the Local Committee [Elmbridge] agreed to:

i Re-allocated £25,000 from the parking surplus, which had previously been specifically allocated to cycling related projects, to develop ITS schemes relating to any mode of transport;

ii Approve the proposed LSR programme for next Financial Year 2020-21 described in paragraph 2.2.2 and Table 5;

iii Authorise the Area Highway Manager, in consultation with the Chairman, Vice Chairman, and relevant Divisional Members, to amend the 2020-21 capital LSR programme as appropriate when the 2020-21 budgets have been confirmed;

iv Authorise the Area Highway Manager to advertise the legal notice for a NO ENTRY restriction at the bus gate leading from Burwood Road into Pleasant Place, and for any objections to be considered by the Area Highway Manager in consultation with the Chairman, Vice Chairman, and Divisional Member;

v Authorise the Area Highway Manager to apply to Elmbridge Borough Council for CIL funding to construct a new cycle route along Grotto Road between Oatlands Drive and Marlborough Drive, Weybridge, subject to consultation with local members and Elmbridge Borough Council;

vi Authorise the Area Highway Manager to apply to Elmbridge Borough Council for CIL funding to construct a new road safety scheme in Ember Lane, Esher / Thames Ditton, subject to consultation with local members and Surrey Police;

vii 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 facilitate development of Committee’s 2020-21 Highways programmes, while at the same time ensuring that the Chairman, Vice Chairman and relevant Divisional Members are fully and appropriately involved in any detailed considerations.

The bus gate leading from Burwood Road into Pleasant Place is not well respected; it is hoped that compliance may be improved by providing a simple NO ENTRY sign.

The feasibility studies for two schemes have now been completed. These schemes are now ready for CIL applications, subject to consultation with local members and other interested parties.

Committee is asked to provide the necessary authorisation to deliver its programmes of work in consultation with the Chairman, Vice Chairman and relevant Divisional Member without the need to revert to the Committee as a whole.

Declarations of Interest: None

Officers attending: Nick Healey, Area Highways Manager

Petitions, Public Questions/Statements: None

Member discussion –key points

Members discussed issues arising where local roads are used as an access to a housing development. They are frequently damaged as a result of the resulting heavy vehicle traffic, but in most cases it is not possible to get the developer to resurface them, they are not a priority for resurfacing by the County Council and are not eligible for CIL funding. It was suggested that a pot of funding should be made available for this type of work. The Area Highways Manager agreed that there is no regular mechanism for requiring developers to make good any damage caused.

In relation to the scheme in Table 6 – Between Streets, the divisional member was concerned at the delay caused as a result of waiting for a cable to be relocated. The Area Highways Manager reported that Virgin Media had been paid for the work, but it has not yet been done. It was suggested that the Director of Highways should be asked to call them every day to expedite this work as this approach had been successful in other directorates.

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