Issue - meetings

This report discusses the possible introduction of a 20 mph zone to help reinforce the existing traffic calmed area of Eastfield Avenue. This is in response to on-going local concerns over traffic speeds, and particularly the speed of buses going through the area.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to :

(i)       approve, in principle, the scheme as shown in Annex B;

(ii)               authorise further area-wide local consultation on the proposed scheme, including advertisement of the necessary Traffic Regulation Order;

(iii)             delegate authority to the Director and Executive Member for City Strategy to make a decision on the scheme progressing, including the making of the necessary Traffic Regulation Order (TRO), following consideration of the consultation feedback, including any objections to the TRO, at an Officer In Consultation  (OIC) meeting;

(iv)              to include the implementation of this scheme as a spending option when the 2006/07 Transport Capital Programme is reviewed (under another item on this agenda) or, if this is not possible, to considered it when the 2007/08 Transport Capital Programme is determined.

Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy

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

REASON:                  To help address local concerns over traffic speeds.

Members considered a report which discussed the possible introduction of a 20 mph zone to help reinforce the existing traffic calmed area of Eastfield Avenue. This was in response to on-going local concerns over traffic speeds, and particularly the speed of buses going through the area. A decision was sought by Members on carrying out area-wide consultation on a proposed scheme, in parallel with the advertisement of the Traffic Regulation Order necessary to introduce a 20 mph zone.

Members raised their concerns regarding the speed of buses in the area.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to :

(i)       approve, in principle, the scheme as shown in Annex B;

(ii)               authorise further area-wide local consultation on the proposed scheme, including advertisement of the necessary Traffic Regulation Order;

(iii)             delegate authority to the Director and Executive Member for City Strategy to make a decision on the scheme progressing, including the making of the necessary Traffic Regulation Order (TRO), following consideration of the consultation feedback, including any objections to the TRO, at an Officer In Consultation  (OIC) meeting;

(iv)              to include the implementation of this scheme as a spending option when the 2006/07 Transport Capital Programme is reviewed (under another item on this agenda) or, if this is not possible, to considered it when the 2007/08 Transport Capital Programme is determined.

Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy

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

REASON:                  To help address local concerns over traffic speeds.