Agenda item

Neighbourhood Road Safety Fund Programme

 

Report of the Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environment Services

 

Recommendations:-

 

1.           That Cabinet approve the delivery of twenty schemes identified following the latest round of consultation in July, 2020 as detailed in Appendix 3 Section A.

Minutes:

Consideration was given to a report on the Neighbourhood Road Safety Fund Programme. The Programme had been approved in 2019/20 and Cabinet were asked to approve the second tranche of the Programme for delivery in 2020/21 and 2021/22. With a budget of £150,000 per year for three years to March 2022, the aim of the Programme was to address local community road safety concerns.

 

Cabinet were asked to approve the delivery of 19 schemes as identified following consultation in July 2020. Details of the schemes were provided in Appendix 3 to the report. Appendix 1 contained the Impact Assessment Screening Form whilst Appendix 2 was a progress update on Tranche 1 of the Programme. The Cabinet Member for Waste, Roads and Community Safety explained that 19 schemes had been completed during Year 1 of the Programme.

 

The report had been considered by the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board as part of the pre-decision scrutiny process. The Board supported the recommendations and asked the Cabinet Member for Waste, Roads and Community Safety to give further consideration to actions that could be taken to ensure that pedestrian crossings and other road infrastructure across the Borough fully takes into account the needs of vulnerable road users.

 

Resolved:-

 

(1)  That Cabinet approve the delivery of 19 schemes identified following the latest round of consultation in July 2020 as detailed in Appendix 3; and

 

(2)  That the Cabinet Member for Waste, Roads and Community Safety give further consideration to actions that could be taken to ensure that pedestrian crossings and other road infrastructure across the Borough fully takes into account the needs of vulnerable road users.

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