Issue - meetings

To consider a joint report of the Council Solicitor and the Service Director (Place Management)

The report sets out an objection received to the proposal to introduce prohibition of waiting restrictions on the junctions of Hempshaw Lane with Whalley Road and Garth Road, Offerton, and the response of the Service Director to the concerns raised.

The Area Committee is recommended to make the Order as advertised.

Officer contact: Zoe Allan, 0161 474 3138, zoe.allan@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Democratic Services Manager submitted a joint report of the Council Solicitor and the Service Director (Place Management) (copies of which had been circulated) summarising a objection received to the proposal to introduce waiting restrictions on the junctions of Hempshaw Lane with Whalley Road and Garth Road, Offerton in order to improve safety.

RESOLVED – That, notwithstanding the objection received, the Order be made as advertised.

To consider a report of the Service Director (Place Management)

The report summarises the responses received to a consultation to introduce tactile paving to assist vulnerable road users at the junctions of Garth Road and Whalley Road at Hempshaw Lane in Offerton and to introduce an associated extension to existing No Waiting restrictions.

The Area Committee is recommended to approve the following,

Extend No Waiting at Any Time:

Garth Road

Both sides from the Southerly kerb line of Hempshaw Lane for a distance of 7 metres in a Southerly direction.

Whalley Road

Both sides form the Southerly kerb line of Hempshaw Lane for a distance of 5 metres in a Southerly direction.

Hempshaw Lane

South side, from the Easterly kerb line of Whalley Road for a distance of 5 metres in an Easterly direction.

Not forming part of the Traffic Regulation Order, the construction of tactile paving at the existing dropped crossings on Garth Road and Whalley Road.

Officer contact: Max Townsend, 0161 474 4861, max.townsend@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Service Director (Place Management) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Area Committee to consider a proposal to introduce a Traffic Regulation Order and tactile paving at the junctions of Hempshaw Lane with both Garth Road and Whalley Road, in order to assist vulnerable pedestrians and protect these facilities from parked cars.

RESOLVED – That the following Traffic Regulation Order and surfacing treatment be approved, at a cost of £870 to be funded from the Area Committee’s Highway Maintenance and Traffic Management delegated budget (Offerton Ward allocation):-

Extend No Waiting at Any Time

Garth Road

Both sides from the southerly kerb line of Hempshaw Lane for distance of 7 metres in a southerly direction.

Whalley Road

Both sides from the southerly kerb line of Hempshaw Lane for distance of 5 metres in a southerly direction.

Hempshaw Lane

South side, from the easterly kerb line of Whalley Road for a distance of 5 metres in an easterly direction.

Not forming part of the Traffic Regulation Order, the construction of tactile pacing at the existing dropped crossings on Garth Road and Whalley Road.