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Salford
City Council - Record of Decision
 
I, Councillor Mike McCusker,
Lead Member for Planning,
Transport & Sustainable Development, in exercise of the powers
contained within the Council Constitution, do hereby approve:
 
The
carrying out of the statutory consultation to enable the Council to
use the Part 6 Enforcement Powers at sites to support the GM Clean
Air Plan.
 
The
Reasons are:
The City Council have powers to
enforce certain Moving Traffic Offences following the successful
application to DfT for de-criminalised enforcement.
 
The City Council have been
working with TfGM and the Greater Manchester Districts to gain
approval for an Investment Led Clean Air Plan, rather than the
previously approved charging Clean Air Zone across the region. As
well as investment in new buses and taxis, there are a limited
number of local measures required in Salford and
Manchester.
 
This includes a 30mph speed
limit and adjustments to traffic signals on Regent Road as well as
some local highway measures in the St Johns area of Manchester City
Centre. The modelled results indicate delivering compliance in air
quality terms, with the Government agreeing with the results and
supporting the Investment Led Plan in January 2025.
 
To ensure the modelled results
are reflected on the network, compliance with the speed limit and
other restrictions in place need to be enforced. The proposal at
Regent Road is to carry out enforcement of the yellow boxes to
increase compliance and ensure insofar as possible that the network
operates as modelled and delivers the modelled outcomes in air
quality terms.
 
Approval of the report will
enable the consultation to be undertaken for camera enforcement of
the yellow box sites where compliance and modelling outputs is key
to the success of the Clean Air Plan.
 
Options considered and rejected were:
None, there is no alternative
to carrying out the consultation, before a decision can be made on
whether or not to enforce the contraventions at the locations
shown.
 
Assessment of Risk:
There is limited risk to the
City Council in carrying out this consultation.
 
The
source of funding is:
The consultation will be funded
from the allocation towards local highway measures from the GM
Investment Led Clean Air Plan.
 
Legal Advice
obtained:
Not applicable at present.
 
Financial Advice
obtained: The consultation will be funded
from the allocation towards local highway measures from the GM
Investment Led Clean Air Plan.
 
Procurement Advice:
N/A
 
HR Advice
obtained: N/A
 
The
following documents have been used to assist the decision
process:
Local Transport Plan
 
Contact
Officer: Robert Owen               
Email: robert.owen@salford.gov.uk
 
 
This decision is not subject to
consideration by another Lead Member.
 
The appropriate scrutiny panel
to call-in the decision is the Growth and Prosperity Scrutiny
Panel.
 
 

Signed: Councillor Mike McCusker                                              
Dated: 12th March 2025
Lead
Member for Planning, Transport & Sustainable
Development
 

 
This decision was published on
14th March 2025.
 
This decision will come into force at 4.00 p.m. on
21st March 2025, unless it is called-in in accordance with the
decision-making process rules.