Agenda and draft minutes

Agenda:

6pm - Riverside path, Jubilee Terrace

·         Updates

·         Next steps

7pm - York Central

·         Updates on the construction

·         Updates on the designs

·         Questions, ideas, opportunities

8pm - meeting close

Holgate Ward Committee Minutes

·       All Cllrs in attendance, no apologies.

·       Delayed start as technical issues with presentation

·       Public meeting on key local issues, similar to the one last week at St Paul’s which focused on York Central and Wilton Rise.

·       This one is also on local issues and York Central, but also the riverside path.

·       Toilets, no planned fire drill, fire exit, questions and answers time for each item, also asked people to be respectful

1.       Riverside path Jubilee Terrace

·       Upgrade – the scheme has been talked about for five or six years. Cllrs been pushing CYC to improve the route. Expensive scheme, this one on a long list of other improvements.

·       Leeman Road closure – improving the route would mitigate some harm from the road closure, as not everyone, but a lot of people do use it.

·       Riverside path completely separate to York Central – no formal connection.

·       Council are progressing with riverside path – purchased some land, had partial success with some funding acquired for the scheme.

·       Progress has been slow, but continues on.

·       Survey suggests riverside embankment structure may be compromised – detail work to be undertaken to determine damage and if it will undermine riverside pathway- riverside work underway today.

·       Project to keep pace. Hoping people would feel encouraged, although everyone might not be happy.

·       Hard copies dotted around the room, happy to print and post copies to people also if they want a copy.

·       Project goes from Jubilee Terrace down to Scarborough bridge

·       More ‘no parking’ zigzags on approach to school

·       Disabled bays to be relocated

·       Current bays are not enforceable

·       Churches operations would not be compromised by these plans such as weddings, funerals, christenings.

·       Discussion with council about barriers – newer barriers feel more accessible. LTN120 Government guidance of accessibility – not favourable to barriers. No decision made, but it is in discussion.

·       5 new trees would be planted

·       Extra lighting alongside upper path

·       Blue sections are benches and cycle hoops

·       Designs not decided, not gone to planning yet.

·       Just current ideas and plans.

·       Two paths proposed – hope to reduce pedestrian-cyclist conflict of the shared space.

·       New road would be tarmac

·       Not able to resurface entire route due to financial costs. If further funding can be acquired, then could extend resurfacing.

·       Approach to Scarborough bridge – less space around river, bench near tunnel.

·       Raising path by 25cm.

·       Even raising path by a meter, it would still flood. Might hope to have 75cm height.

·       Higher you raise it, the fewer the path flooding events

·       Plus, the more you raise the water level, the council have to find somewhere for the water to go – Environment Agency would need to sign off on it and ensure water runoff planned for and safe.

·       Councillors are sharing these updates on behalf of council officers who could not make it this evening.

·       This project is not connected to closure of Leeman Rd, but also would be nice to get this done before the road closes.

·       Possibly two years  ...  view the full minutes text for item 1.