Decision details

Purpose of Report: The report will provide an update on City Centre Accessibility. It will report progress following Novembers 2021 Executive decision on Strategic Reviews of City Centre Access and Council Car Parking on the adopted action plan. It will also detail the progress made since the City Centre Access – Security Measures report in January 2022 at Executive.

The Executive Member will be asked to note the progress of the approved actions plans.

Resolved:

                      i.         That the progress on City centre accessibility and the action plan be noted.

Reason:     To update the Executive Member on the progress of agreed actions.

                     ii.         that the dropped kerbs in the city centre programme be prioritised and to be funded from the Pedestrian and Cycling Schemes element of the Transport Capital Budget.

Reason:     As part of the access improvement work is the review of dropped kerbs in the City Centre footstreets. The intended funding for this work was subject to a bid, £250,000 to the Department for Transport for Active travel. The announcement on this funding is yet to be made. To mitigate this and to ensure this important work could proceed, one of the decisions at the 18th November 2021 Executive meeting in the “Consideration of Changes to the City Centre TrafficRegulation Order” paper was for the Executive Member for Transport to be delegated authority to fund this work through the Transport Capital Programme in the absence of an announcement from Government.