Issue - meetings

The Director of Planning, Transport & Environment to present a report which seeks endorsement of a strategy, developed with partners, to be used as a framework for the delivery of road safety interventions in the city.

Resolved:  (i)      That the York and North Yorkshire Road Safety Partnership: Roads Strategy at Annex A to the report be endorsed.

Reason:     To ensure the effective coordination and delivery of road safety measures and initiatives across the city.

                   (ii)      That officers be directed to review the proposed processes and governance arrangements to ensure that the road safety concerns of local residents and councillors are adequately addressed in the prioritisation of resources across the partners.

                   (ii)      That authority be delegated to the Corporate Director of Place (in consultation with the Director of Governance or her delegated officers) to take such steps as are necessary to enter into the resulting agreement.

Reason:     To ensure that appropriate mechanisms are in place to allocate road safety resources to local priorities.

The Director of Transport, Planning and Environment and the Head of Transport presented a report which sought endorsement of a strategy, developed with partners, to be used as a framework for the delivery of road safety interventions in the city.

The draft strategy, attached at Annex A to the report, incorporated changes made to address comments made by the Executive Member for Transport on the importance of active travel. Comments by partners on prioritisation of resources would be progressed through the review of the governance processes outlined in paragraphs 28-29 of the report.  Consultation on the detailed approach to addressing road safety concerns in the city would take place as part of the Local Transport Plan development.

Members were invited to consider whether to:

·        Endorse the strategy, as recommended (Option 1);

·        Endorse the strategy with comments to be addressed in the final version subject to approval by partners (Option 2);

·        Reject the strategy (Option 3).

Resolved:  (i)      That the York and North Yorkshire Road Safety Partnership: Roads Strategy at Annex A to the report be endorsed. [Option 1]

Reason:     To ensure the effective coordination and delivery of road safety measures and initiatives across the city.

                   (ii)      That officers be directed to review the proposed processes and governance arrangements to ensure that the road safety concerns of local residents and councillors are adequately addressed in the prioritisation of resources across the partners.

                   (ii)      That authority be delegated to the Corporate Director of Place (in consultation with the Director of Governance or her delegated officers) to take such steps as are necessary to enter into the resulting agreement.

Reason:     To ensure that appropriate mechanisms are in place to allocate road safety resources to local priorities.