Issue - meetings

Petition in relation to the resurfacing of the pavement outside Tang Hall Primary School on Sixth Avenue

Meeting: 26/03/2007 - Executive Members for City Strategy and Advisory Panel (Item 100)

100 Petition From Parents, Governors and Staff at Tang Hall Primary School Requesting the Resurfacing of the Pavement Outside the School on Sixth Avenue PDF 542 KB

This report advises Members of the receipt of a petition from parents, governors and staff at Tang Hall Primary School requesting the resurfacing of the pavement outside the school on Sixth Avenue and seeks approval of a recommendation to include this section of footway in the 2007/2008 Resurfacing and Reconstruction programme.

Decision:

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to:

(i) Note the receipt of the petition;

(ii) Approve Option 1 as detailed in paragraph 13 of the report:

· Note and agree with officers recommendation to include a scheme in the 2007/08 Resurfacing and Reconstruction Programme;

(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 the current council policy and ensure that the highway maintenance budgets are expended in the most cost effective way based on the council’s assessed priorities.

Minutes:

Members considered a report which advised them of a petition presented by Councillor Potter at Full Council on 25 January 2007. Councillor Potter presented this petition on behalf of the parents, governors and staff at Tang Hall Primary School, requesting the resurfacing of the pavement outside the school on Sixth Avenue.

The report presented two options:

Option 1 : Note and agree with officers recommendations to include a scheme in the 2007/2008 Resurfacing & Reconstruction programme;

Option 2 : That limited basic maintenance works only are carried out to make the footway safe.