Following consideration by the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation resolved that:

1) Sir John Stanley's letter regarding the Local Transport Plan for Kent 2011-2016, as reproduced at Annex 1 to the report, be formally noted;
2) the Borough Council should continue to press for completion of the A21 Tonbridge to Pembury dualling scheme Public Inquiry and the letter at Annex 3 to the report requesting this be endorsed;
3) the West Malling station forecourt remodelling scheme be confirmed as a project that the Borough Council wishes to be included in any future County Council bid for funding through the Local Sustainable Transport Fund;
4) the schedule of schemes listed at Annex 5 to the report be endorsed as the Borough Council's priorities for future highways investment, subject to the amendments suggested at the meeting, and noted by the Chief Engineer, and a revised schedule being circulated to Members in due course;
5) objection to any further stops within the Capital that would further slow down services on the West Malling/Maidstone East line, as set out in the letter of the Director of Planning, Transport and Leisure to the Department for Transport, be endorsed;
6) Cabinet considers its position on the extension of the current rail franchise for a further two years;
7) peak period Thameslink services on the West Malling/Maidstone East line from April 2012 onwards be welcomed and supported; and
8) the reply to the consultation on the Rail Action Plan for Kent, set out at Annex 9 to the report, be endorsed.

Reasons: As set out in the report submitted to the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board of 22 February 2011.