Decision Taken By: CABINET MEMBER FOR Planning and Transportation
Decision No: D130145MEM
Date: 2nd December 2013
Decision(s) and Reason(s)
Tonbridge and Malling Cycling Strategy
Minutes
Consideration was given to the Tonbridge and Malling Cycling Strategy which had been prepared by officers from Kent County Council, working in partnership with colleagues from Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council, the sustainable transport charity, Sustrans, and local cyclists. The report summarised the responses received to the public consultation held between May and June 2013.
A number of Members expressed concern about the phraseology used within the strategy, set out at Annex 1 to the report, which gave an impression that the strategy would be a policy statement rather than provide guidance to the decision making process. Kent County Council offered to clarify the text of the document to ensure that it could be adopted as a material consideration for the purposes of development control.
Following consideration by the Joint Transportation Board, the Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation resolved that:
The revised Tonbridge and Malling Cycling Strategy be submitted to the next meeting of the Borough Council's Planning and Transportation Advisory Board for consideration of its incorporation into the Local Plan Process.
Reasons: As set out in the report submitted to the Joint Transportation Board of 2 December 2013.
Signed S Murray (Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation)
Signed Leader: N Heslop
Signed Chief Executive: J Beilby
Date of Publication: 06 December 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.