Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration.

The report outlines how funding from Public Health, Cycle City Ambition Fund and the Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF) has been allocated to walking and cycling projects.  The report identifies those projects.

Members of the Forum are requested to note the report.

Officer contact: Emily Brough Telephone: 0161 474 4592 or Email: Emily.brough@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) outlining how funding from Public Health, the Cycle City Ambition Fund and the Local Sustainable Transport Fund had been allocated to walking and cycling projects which were identified in the report. She also reported on Walking for Health Projects.

The following comments were made/issues raised:-

·         The Forum discussed the work undertaken by volunteers to carry out continued maintenance and improvement of routes. The Forum wished this to be discussed further at a future meeting including the possibility of a Friends of Rights of Way Group being established covering the Trans Pennine Trail and other routes which were regularly used.

·         Work on Footpath 63 BR linking the Peak Forest Canal and the Trans Pennine Trail via Mill Lane/Turner Lane, Bredbury and the Woodley area was anticipated to be completed during 2017.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.