Issue - meetings

This report sets out details of the proposed City Strategy Capital Programme for 2008/09, and asks the Executive Member to approve the programme.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member be advised:

(i)           That the proposed 2008/09 City Strategy Capital Programme, as set out in the report, be approved;

(ii)     That the inclusion of the Deighton Refuges and Right Turn Lane in the Capital Programme be investigated, with no commitment.

Decision of the Executive Member

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:To implement the Council’s transport strategy identified in York’s second Local Transport Plan.

Members received a report which set out details of the proposed City Strategy Capital Programme for 2008/09, and asked the Executive Member to approve the programme.

The total value of schemes which it was proposed to undertake in 2008/09 was £7,943k.  The allocations included a Local Transport Plan (LTP) integrated transport overprogramming element of approximately £600k and there was also an additional £200k of overprogramming set against S106 schemes, which it was proposed to accommodate by using carryover S106 funding from 2007/08.

The options presented to Members were to approve the programme, as set out in the report, or to adjust the programme to include or remove schemes.

Written representations were received from Councillor Vassie, asking Members to reconsider the proposal to put the Deighton pedestrian traffic island down as a low priority in the Capital Programme for the coming year.

Members thanked officers for their work drawing up the Capital Programme and also welcomed the application to Cycling England for Cycle Demonstration Town status.

Members raised a range of queries and comments on the individual schemes within the Capital Programme, which included:

·  A request to include the businesses in Micklegate in the consultation on the Blossom Street Multi-Modal Scheme;

·  A suggestion that a scheme to extend the Heslington Lane Cycle Route in the opposite direction be included in the scheme development list;

·  A request to investigate the possibility of improving pedestrian facilities in the vicinity of the Vue Cinema at Clifton Moor.¹

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member be advised:

(i)           That the proposed 2008/09 City Strategy Capital Programme, as set out in the report, be approved;²

(ii)     That the inclusion of the Deighton Refuges and Right Turn Lane in the Capital Programme be investigated, with no commitment.³

Decision of the Executive Member

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:To implement the Council’s transport strategy identified in York’s second Local Transport Plan.