Decision details

Walking & Cycling update (C&H20 / E&R14)

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

The report will provide details of recent and proposed future activities to encourage walking and cycling within Stockport.

Decision:

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.

Alternative options considered:

None

Reason Key: Affects 2 or more wards;

Wards Affected: (All Wards);

Equality and/or Environmental Impact Assessment: n/a

Decision Reference: CAB32

Declarations or conflicts of Interest: None

Forward Plan Reference: C&H20 / E&R14

Other reasons / organisations consulted

Scrutiny C&H and Econ and Regen

Contact: Sue Stevenson, Services to Place Email: sue.stevenson@stockport.gov.uk Tel: 0161-474-4351.

Report author: Amy Beasley

Publication date: 04/10/2017

Date of decision: 03/10/2017

Decided at meeting: 03/10/2017 - Cabinet

Effective from: 11/10/2017

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