Issue - meetings

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

The report details a proposal to install new bollards and knee-rail to help prevent unauthorised access to Torkington Park.

That the Area Committee is recommended to give approval to the following scheme at a cost of £3,200 to be funded from the Area Committee’s Delegated Budget (Hazel Grove ward allocation) :-

·         the installation of  new lockable bollards at the access from the roundabout down into the park, also relocating one heritage bollard and repainting all 5 heritage bollards.

·         the installation of new lockable bollards at the tractor access point and 4m of knee-rail fencing towards the gate entrance at Torkington Road.

·         the installation of an extra concrete bollard near to the exit towards Buxton Road to prevent unauthorised access to the field.

Officer contact: Jacky Budd on 0161 474 3218 or email: jacky.budd@stockport.gov.uk  

A representative of the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) detailing proposals to install new bollards and knee-rail to help prevent unauthorised access to Torkington Park.

RESOLVED – That approval be given for the following scheme to be funded at a cost of £3,200 from the Area Committee’s Delegated Budget (Hazel Grove Ward Allocation):-

·         the installation of new lockable bollards at the access of the roundabout down into the park, also relocating one heritage bollard and repainting all 5 heritage bollards;

·         the installation of new lockable bollards at the tractor access point and 4m of knee-rail fencing towards the gate entrance at Torkington Road; and

·         the installation of an extra concrete bollard near to the exit towards Buxton Road to prevent unauthorised access to the field.