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Report of the Head of Planning, Transportation and Environment (PTE/17/48) seeking scheme and estimate approval for this scheme and authority to advertise the necessary Traffic Orders, attached.

Minutes:

(Councillors Biederman, Connett and Hannaford attended in accordance with Standing Order 25(2) and spoke to this item).

 

The Cabinet considered the Report of the Head of Planning, Transportation and Environment (PTE/17/48) seeking scheme and estimate approval for the construction of a new footpath serving Tiverton Parkway Station and surrounding area to improve access to the station, to which Great Western Railway had contributed £100,000. The Head of Service also sought authority to advertise the necessary Traffic Orders.

 

The proposed scheme detailed in the Head of Service’s Report would provide: a footway Link from the Station to Sampford Peverell, two new bus stops along Lower Town to provide sustainable connectivity with the footway, new street lighting from the recently extended station car park along the access road to the station and along the C105 Lower Town between Whitnage Road and Ayshmeade Lodge, improvements to the National Cycle Network (C105 - Lower Town to the west of Ayshmeade), a surface course to the off-road cycle route between C105 Lower Town and the route along the Grand Western Canal, a reduced speed limit of 30mph along the length of the new lighting and existing parking restrictions along the road to the railway station being extended to include Saturday and Sunday.  Cyclists would necessarily benefit from the street lighting, the crossing of the C105 Lower Town and the improved surface on the connecting link to the Grand Western Canal.

 

The Head of Service’s Report also incorporated an Impact Assessment relating to the possible impacts of the proposal, which had been circulated previously for the attention of Members at this meeting in order that as part of its determination of the next steps in the process the Cabinet might have full regard to the responsibilities placed upon it to exercise its Public Sector Equality Duty, under s149 of the Equality Act 2010, where relevant. 

 

That assessment recognised the positive impact of the Strategy and that no unmanageable impacts had been identified: the design of the scheme had considered the needs of all road users and significantly improved access to the station for those without a car.

 

The matter having been debated and the options and/or alternatives and other relevant factors (e.g. financial, environmental impacts, risk management, equality and legal considerations and Public Health impact) set out in the Head of Service’s Report and/or referred to above having been considered:

 

It was MOVED by Councillor Hughes, SECONDED by Councillor Clatworthy, and

 

RESOLVED

 

(a)that approval be given to the construction of the Tiverton Pathway footpath and cycle/bus stops scheme as shown on drawing C16008/12 at Appendix 1 to Report PTE/17/48 at an estimated cost of £325,000;

 

(b) that approval be given to advertise any required Traffic Regulation Orders and if no objections are received, to the Orders being made and sealed;

 

(c) that the Head of Planning, Transportation and Environment be authorised, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Highway Management and the local County Councillor, to make minor amendments to the scheme design.

 

[NB: The Impact Assessment referred to above may be viewed at:  http://new.devon.gov.uk/impact/].

 

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