Issue - meetings

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

The report provides details relating to a proposed Local Initiative scheme following completion of a new section of carriageway, A5145 Travis Brow, elected members have discussed the possibility of improved landscaping to create a ‘green corridor’ along this route in to Stockport town centre.

The Area Committee is asked to support the feasibility scheme and authorise the Chief Executive to order the work which would be funded at a contribution of £4,000 by this Area Committee’s Highway Maintenance and Traffic Management delegated budget.

Officer contact: Alan Whitfield, 0161 474 3255, alan.whitfield@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) providing details relating to a proposed Local Initiative scheme following completion of a new section of carriageway, A5145 Travis Brow, elected members have discussed the possibility of improved landscaping to create a ‘green corridor’ along this route in to Stockport town centre. 

Members commented that they were supportive of the scheme and thanked officers for the proposed scheme.

RESOLVED – That approval be given to the undertaking of a feasibility study with regard to the making of improvements to the landscaping adjacent to the new section of carriageway (A5145 Travis Brow) to create a ‘green corridor’ at a cost of £4,000 to be funded from the Area Committee’s Delegated Budget (Heatons South ward allocation).