Customer and Corporate Services Scrutiny Management Committee		8 November 2021
Report of the Corporate Director of Place Portfolio of the Executive Member for Transport Portfolio of the Executive Member for Economy and Strategic Planning

 

City Centre, Vision, Accessibility and Traffic Regulation

 

Summary

 

1.        Following meetings of this committee on the 25^th of October 2021 in partnership with the Health Adult Social Care Policy and Scrutiny Committee and the Economy and Place Scrutiny Committee a number of requests for additional information were made by the committee, these requests are detailed in this report.

 

2.        Recognising the limited time between meetings it has been agreed with the chair of this committee that the additional information will be published later.

 

3.        This will allow Customer and Corporate Services Scrutiny Management Committee to consider the report before Executive and make recommendations.

 

 

Recommendations

 

4.        In light of the discussions on this item at Scrutiny Committees on the 25^th, further information requested will be published as annexes in advance of the meeting.  This will allow the Customer and Corporate Services Scrutiny Management Committee to consider recommendations to Executive.

                                                                                                                  Reason: To ensure that Executive have fully considered all the impacts of the vision, access and vehicle regulation decisions that they are going to be asked to consider at the 18^th November Executive.

 

 

 

Consultation

 

5.        A series of consultation including a statutory Traffic Regulation Order consultation have been undertaken.

 

6.        Following meetings of this committee on the 25^th of October 2021 in partnership with the Health Adult Social Care Policy and Scrutiny Committee and the Economy and Place Scrutiny Committee a number of requests for additional information were made by the committee.

 

7.        The additional information requested was as follows which will be addressed in the annexes

 

·        Officer response to the report prepared by the York Human Right City Network

·        Analysis of the consultation on city centre access which closed on Oct 25^th

·        Any accident data involving vehicles within the footstreets

·        Any data on blue badge parking levels/use of spaces pre and post covid.

·        Any data on the likelynumber of Blue Badge Holders / Disabled People for whom a loss of Blue Badge access will render the footstreets inaccessible

·        Confirmation of the current footstreet speed limits

 

Options

 

8.        It is a matter for the Customer and Corporate Services Scrutiny Management Committee to determine if it wishes to make recommendations to the Executive.

 

Council Plan

 

8.    The information and issues included in this report demonstrate progress on achieving the priorities set out in the Council Plan.

 

Implications

 

9.    There are no implications from this report as Scrutiny are making advisory recommendations to Executive as the decision making body.

 

Risk Management

 

10.  Scrutiny’s consideration of the all the factors relevant to the Executive on the 18^th of November helps ensure fully informed decision making.

 

 

Contact Details

 

Authors:	Chief Officer Responsible for the report:
James Gilchrist Director of Environment, Transport and Planning	James Gilchrist Director of Environment, Transport and Planning
	Report Approved	√	Date		29.10.21
Wards Affected: All				ü
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