Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Director of Place Management.

This report provides results of a consultation on the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS) proposals to improve active travel routes between Bredbury and Woodley, which include the improvement of existing unbound footpaths / bridleways, modifications to existing junctions to improve safety and creating new cycling links to Woodley Precinct.

Officer Contact: Nick Whelan on 0161 474 4907 or email: nick.whelan@stockport.gov.uk

Representatives of the Director of Place Management submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) providing the results of a consultation on the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements proposals to improve active travel routes between Bredbury and Woodley, which included the improvement of existing unbound footpaths/ bridleways, modifications to existing junctions to improve safety and creating new cycling links to Woodley Precinct.

RESOLVED – (1) That the Cabinet Member for Economy & Regeneration be recommended to give approval to the implementation of the scheme and the legal advertising of the associated Traffic Regulations as detailed at Appendix B to the report, and subject to the receipt of no objections within 21 days, the subsequent making of the orders.

(2) That the Cabinet Member for Economy & Regeneration be recommended to give approval to the following scheme elements:-

(i)            Section A – Resurfacing of existing bridleway between Bredbury Parkway and Mill Lane;

(ii)          Section B – Resurfacing of existing footpath between Mill Lane Recreation Ground and Stockport Road East with street lighting provided and a new cycling and walking link from Rodney Drive to that path;

(iii)         Section C – New junction layout provided at Rodney Drive / Mill Lane junction;

(iv)         Section D – New road closure for vehicular traffic at Hyde Road / Mill Lane (west);

(v)          Section E – New cycle link from Mill Lane (west) to the Toucan crossing on Hyde Road at Woodley Precinct;

(vi)         Section F – Upgrading of the existing crossing on Hyde Road from a puffin to a toucan crossing.

(vii)        Section G – To allow cycling on paths within Woodley Precinct.