Issue - meetings

To consider a joint report of the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration and the Head of Legal & Democratic Governance.

The Council has received an application to divert the footpath from the owner of the land, Man Diesel & Turbo UK Limited. The section of the existing footpath currently follows the line of a metal fence to a footbridge. The diverted line follows a more open aspect and is considered to be aesthetically a more pleasing path for the public than the existing line. The diverted line is also shorter and the diverted line will benefit from some work to provide an improved and more commodious surface.        

The Area Committee is requested to consider whether to authorise the diversion of a section of footpath 126 Stockport from a route shown as a black solid line between Points A – B – C – D – E to a route shown in broken black lines between Points A – X – Y – Z – E, as shown on the plan attached at Appendix 1.

Officer contact: Ernest Nama, 0161 474 4595, ernest.nama@stockport.gov.uk.

A representative of the Democratic Services Manager submitted a a joint report of the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration and the Head of Legal & Democratic Governance (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Area Committee to consider an application from Man Diesel & Turbo UK Limited to divert a portion of footpath 126 on land it owned. The section of the existing footpath currently followed the line of a metal fence to a footbridge but the proposed diverted line would follow a more open aspect.  

RESOLVED – That the diversion of a section of footpath 126 Stockport from a route shown in Appendix 1 of the report as a black solid line between Points A – B – C – D – E to a route shown in broken black lines between Points A – X – Y – Z – E, be approved.