Agenda item

This report presents the final report of the School Travel Plans Ad Hoc Scrutiny Committee and asks Members to comment on the arising recommendations.  Councillor Potter, Chair of the Ad-Hoc Scrutiny Committee, will be in attendance to present the report.

Members received a report that presented the final report of the School Travel Plans Ad Hoc Scrutiny Committee.  Members were asked to comment on the arising recommendations. 

Councillor Potter, Chair of the Ad-hoc Scrutiny Committee, was in attendance and presented the report to Members.  She expressed her thanks to the members of the committee for the work that they had carried out and to officers for their support.   It was noted that details of issues that schools had raised in respect road safety improvements would also form part of the final report.

Consideration was given to the recommendations in the report. Particular attention was drawn to recommendations 4, 9 and 13. 

Members made the following comments on the report:

• In respect of recommendation 11, more than one exemplar School Travel Plan should be made available on-line.
• In respect of recommendation 6, there should be greater clarity as to how the CCTV car would be used to support parking enforcement.
• When the report was presented to the Executive it should include more information on the financial implications of the recommendations.

Members stressed the importance of ensuring that the recommendations were actioned and gave examples of several near-miss incidents that had occurred in the vicinity of schools.

Officers drew attention to the new format that would be used for the final report.  The booklet format would be used for the copies that were distributed to schools and other establishments.

RESOLVED:            (i)            That the contents of the final report and its annexes be

                                    noted.

                        (ii)            That the comments of the committee be fed into the

cover report, and taken into account when the Executive considers the final report.

(iii)That thanks be recorded to the School Travel Plan Ad Hoc Scrutiny Committee for the work that they had carried out.

REASON:      To fully inform the Executive of the outcome of the School Travel Plans Ad Hoc Scrutiny Review.