Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Traffic & Transportation
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
(TAKE IN REPORT)
Pam Turton, the Assistant Director of Transport, Environment & Business Support presented the report.
The Cabinet Member asked the opposition spokespeople if they had any questions on the report.
Councillor Stagg referred to paragraph 6.3 (b) in the report regarding the use of roads by heavy commercial vehicles and gave two examples where she had witnessed on several occasions delivery lorries parking inappropriately and holding up traffic on busy roads. She asked whether it was possible to restrict deliveries to before or after a set time of day. Councillor Fleming and Alan Cufley undertook to investigate the circumstances that Cllr Stagg had raised.
Councillor Stagg also referred to the
statement in the strategy of the 'importance of a high quality
transport network' and felt that that this would be a challenge
with all the new and proposed housing developments in the city
causing increased traffic. She asked
whether transport could make comments to the planning committee
when new developments came forward.
Alan Cufley advised that the Highways authority are a statutory
consultee for all appropriate planning applications and make
necessary comments to ensure that the Planning Committee are guided
as to the effect of the development on the network.
Councillor Stagg queried why the M275 was not listed in Figure 5 of
the Strategy. Officers clarified that
as Portsmouth City Council has responsibility for the southern part
of the M275, it is classified as carriageway in the document, and
does come under the PFI contract.
Councillor Fleming thanked officers for all their work in preparing the policy and strategy and said it was important that the council have these documents in place and it was helpful to see whether the PFI contract fits into the overall strategy.
DECISION: that the Cabinet Member adopts both the Highways Asset Management Policy and the Highways Asset Management Strategy.
Report author: Hayley Chivers
Publication date: 27/02/2017
Date of decision: 26/01/2017
Decided at meeting: 26/01/2017 - Cabinet Member for Traffic & Transportation
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