Issue - meetings

Petition from residents of Bramham Avenue requesting re-surfacing works of the carriageway

Meeting: 14/01/2008 - Executive Members for City Strategy and Advisory Panel (Item 86)

86 Petition from Residents of Bramham Avenue Requesting Resurfacing Works of the Carriageway PDF 47 KB

This report presents a petition from 28 residents of Bramham Avenue, Acomb, calling for the road to be resurfaced in order that it is better able to sustain the volume of bus traffic now using it.

Additional documents:

Decision:

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to :

(i) Note the petition;

(ii) Approve Option 1 as detailed in paragraph 16;

(iii) Advise the lead petitioner of the decision taken.

Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy

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

REASON : To comply with current Council policy and ensure that highway maintenance budgets are expended in the most cost effective way based on the Council’s assessed prioroties.

Minutes:

Members considered a report which advised them of the receipt of a petition from 28 residents who live in Bramham Avenue, Acomb, York. It called for the road to be resurfaced in order that it is better able to sustain the volume of bus traffic now using the road.

The residents also stated that "the frequency of buses, particularly double deckers are responsible for the damage to the ceilings in their homes, first the timetable was altered from a half hourly service to a ten minute service. The number of buses now on this route varies from 85 to 100 per day".

The report presented two options :

Option 1: Members may agree as part of their Advanced Programme of works to reconstruct/resurface this road in the financial year commencing April 2008.

Option 2: Members may decide they would like to see this road reconstructed/resurfaced this financial year in preference to one of the already approved schemes.