Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Director of Place Management.

The report provides the result of a consultation on the City Region Sustainable Travel Settlements (CRSTS) proposals to develop a Quality Bus Transit (QBT) corridor across the 330 bus route between Stockport and Ashton via Hyde and Dukinfield.

The Area Committee is requested to recommend that the Cabinet Member for Parks, Highways & Transport Services gives approval to the implementation the scheme, legal advertising of the Traffic Regulation Orders detailed within the report and, subject to no objections being received within 21 days from the advertisement date, the orders can be made.

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

A representative of the Director of Place Management submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) providing the result of a consultation on the City Region Sustainable Travel Settlements (CRSTS) proposals to develop a Quality Bus Transit (QBT) corridor across the 330 bus route between Stockport and Ashton via Hyde and Dukinfield.

The following comments were made/ issues raised:-

·         Members were content to support the recommendations proposed within in scheme C and E as detailed within the report.

·         The concerns raised related to tarmacking over green space to create for pathways were noted, however Members commented that desire lines already exist for those proposed pathways.

·         Members noted residents’ concerns related Scheme D, in particular the crossing and waiting restrictions on Stockport Road East and relocation of a bus stop, as well as a removal of parking provision from the front of some resident’s properties.

·         Members proposed that Scheme D be rejected and proposed a crossing at Bredbury Recreational Ground near The Crown Inn as an alternative.

·         Members requested investment in an additional crossing outside Bredbury Medical Centre.

RESOLVED – (1) That the Cabinet Member for Parks, Highways and Transport Services be recommended to give approval to the implementation of schemes C and E, legal advertising of the Traffic Regulation Orders detailed within the report and, subject to no objections being received within 21 days from the advertisement date, the orders can be made.

(2) That the Cabinet Member for Parks, Highways and Transport Services be recommended to refuse scheme D as detailed within the report.