Decision details

Purpose of report: Report will advise Members of the receipt of a petition requesting action to improve road safety, especially for school children, at the Stockton Lane/Hempland Lane/Woodlands Grove junction. The report will set out Officers thoughts on the issues raised by the petition, and will recommend a way forward.

Members are asked to: To note the petition and consider an Officer recommendation on how to respond to it.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Advisory Panel advise the Executive Member for City Strategy to:

(i)           Note the content of the petition, and agree that a feasibility study (to include the schools rear entrance) and consultation take place in the Spring, with a view to developing a scheme for funding from the transport capital programme. Dependent on the outcome of the feasibility study, smaller scale measures might be funded in 2009/10, but a larger scale improvement scheme would have to be considered for 2010/11. 

(ii)          Reply to the lead petitioner to inform them of the Panels decision;

Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy

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

REASON:       (i)To enable the further investigation, and early implementation of potential road safety improvements at this junction.

  (ii) To inform them of the panel’s decision.