Purpose

This report provides a further update on
progress made in planning, funding and
implementing the recommendations of the Road Safety Working Group
as requested by the Environment, Climate Emergency and Transport
Committee on 7 September 2021. This report also sets out
Wirral’s Road Safety Plan 2023 – 2027, following the
adoption of the Liverpool City Region Road Safety Strategy in
November 2022.
 
One of the key themes in the Wirral Plan
2021-2026 is to provide safe and pleasant communities. Making the
borough’s roads safer for cyclists, pedestrians and other
road users helps to meet the key priorities set out within the
current Wirral plan.

Decision

Resolved –
that,
 
1. the update on the
recommendations of the Road Safety Working Group as set out as
appendix A to this report be noted.
 
2. the Road Safety
Plan 2023 - 2027 as set out in appendix B to this report be
approved
 
2. officers be
thanked for the significant amount of work undertaken to deliver
the Road Safety Plan 2023-2027 and in implementing the
recommendations of the working group.