Decision Taken By: CABINET MEMBER FOR Planning and Transportation
Decision No: D130071MEM
Date: 4th June 2013
Decision(s) and Reason(s)
Update on Transport Issues
Minutes
The report provided an update on a range of current transportation issues affecting the Borough including new topics relating to the M25 Junction 5 slips, the emerging Cycling Strategy and the Lower Thames Crossing.
A supplementary report circulated in advance of the meeting gave more details of the three options in respect of the Lower Thames Crossing which had recently been issued for consultation by the Department for Transport. Consideration was given to some preliminary comments and a mechanism suggested for making a full response by the consultation deadline of 15 July 2013.
Following consideration by the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation resolved that:
1) the content of the supplementary report be noted and endorsed with the comment that the criteria for assessing the options should also include their implications for the wider road systems that would be affected by the changes; and
2) authority be delegated to the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health, in liaison with the Leader and Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation, to respond formally to the Department for Transport on behalf of the Council by 15 July 2013.
Reasons: As set out in the report submitted to the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board of 4 June 2013.
Signed S Murray (Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation)
Signed Leader: N Heslop
Signed Chief Executive: J Beilby
Date of Publication: 07 June 2013
This decision will come into force and may then be implemented on the expiry of 5 working days after publication unless it is called in.