Issue - items at meetings - Petition from residents

This report advises Members of the receipt of a petition from 26 residents living mainly in Ganton Place requesting the renewal of footpaths in Ganton Place.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to:

(i) Note the petition;

(ii) Approve Option 1 (Erect a No Through Road sign at the Ganton Place/Leven Road junction and arrange to make safe any defects that breach the Council’s standards. Inspect the footways as part of the Council’s normal procedure for assessing the following year’s priority resurfacing schemes)

Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy

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

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

(ii) To advise the lead petitioner of the decision taken.

Members considered a report which advised them of the receipt of a petition from 26 residents living mainly in Ganton Place requesting the renewal of footpaths in Ganton Place. The petition also asked for a “No Through Road” sign to be placed at the entrance to Ganton Place to prevent drivers using it who think they can cut through to Don Avenue etc. Members were also asked to consider the options outlined in the report and approve the recommendations to include Ganton Place in assessments for possible inclusion in the 2007/2008 Resurfacing and Reconstruction Programme.

The report presented two options:

(i) Erect a No Through Road sign at the Ganton Place/Leven Road junction and arrange to make safe any defects that breach the Council's standards. Inspect the footways as part of the Council's normal procedure for assessing the following year's priority resurfacing schemes;

(ii) Erect a No Through Road sign at the Ganton Place/Leven Road junction and carry out the works to the footway this financial year at the expense of dropping a scheme from this year's approved programme.

Officers updated that the No Through Road sign had been erected, and that as detailed in paragraph 9 of the report this scheme had been included on the Councils Provisional List of Streets to be inspected and the inspection had taken place. The scheme scored highly from a safety point of view.