The Cabinet considered an update on the development of a new Cycling and Walking Strategy for Stockport and agreed that
· the proposed approach to producing a new Strategy be endorsed
· the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration be authorised, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Communities & Housing, to approve the draft Cycling and Walking Strategy for use in public consultation;
· the proposed approach to coordinating the public consultation with the statutory consultation on the draft Rights of Way Improvement Plan (ROWIP) wherever possible be endorsed;
· officers be authorised to further investigate, in partnership with MoBike, the feasibility of extending the Manchester/Salford Pilot scheme into Stockport, and authority be delegated to the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration, in consultation with the Cabinet Members for Communities & Housing, and Economy & Environment, to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with MoBike should the expansion be found to be feasible.