Purpose

Approval of a programme of works to the public
highway to improve road safety, supporting statutory requirements
and the council’s Vision Zero approach to reducing casualties
on the public highway.
Noting that this forms part of a five year
funding package within the City Region Sustainable Transport
Settlement.
Approval of the exercising of relevant
statutory powers available to the Highway Authority to facilitate
the works on the public highway.

Content

The Chief Officer (Highways &
Transportation)
 
Noted the contents and recommendations of this
report including the continued application of the innovative
approach to road casualties looking beyond the traditional
‘sites’ and ‘lengths’ processes; and
 
Noted the work undertaken over the 2022/23
financial year with respect to the previously approved casualty
reduction programme; and
 
Reviewed and approved the indicative
five year programme of casualty
prevention schemes and the detailed programme for 2023/24 and give
authority to commence the detailed design, consultation and
implementation of the schemes described in Appendix A to this
report; and
 
Gave authority to incur expenditure of
£3.201m, (comprising of £2.377m of new funding and a
carryover from the 2022/23 financial year of £824K) to
deliver the programme of projects detailed in Appendix B as part of
the five year £8.0m City Region Sustainable Transport
Settlement; and
 
Gave authority to request the City Solicitor
to draft and advertise any Traffic Regulation Orders (Movement
Order, Waiting Restriction Order or Experimental Order) as required
to address/ resolve the problems identified for each scheme as
detailed in Appendix A, and if no valid objections are received, to
make, seal and implement the Orders as advertised; and
 
Approved with reference to the powers
contained in Section 66(4) of the Highways Act 1980, that relevant
lengths of footway proposed as cycle tracks (detailed in Appendix
A) are removed and that following the removal of the footways,
cycle tracks are constructed under the powers contained under the
provisions of section 65(1) of the Highways Act 1980 for segregated
or shared joint use by pedal cyclists and pedestrians; and
 
Gave authority to request the City Solicitor
to draft and advertise a Notice under the provision of Section 90C
of the Highways Act 1980 for the implementation of traffic calming
as necessary to facilitate the listed schemes; and
 
Agreed to receive such other and further
reports as may be required to address any objections received to
advertised notices or other matters arising from the detailed
scheme proposals; and
 
Noted that reports will be submitted on an
annual basis over the course of the CRSTS settlement to detail
progress and expenditure.