Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration

The report considers an application from Stockport County Supporters Co-operative to hold their first half marathon on Sunday 6 September 2015 with a circular route being run from and back to Stockport County Football Club along the Trans Pennine Trail between Woolpack Bridge through Mersey Vale Nature Park and on into Manchester.

This report will also be considered by the Heatons and Reddish Area Committee at its meeting on 13 July 2015.

The Area Committee is recommended to approve the event application, subject to the production of appropriate papers, event and traffic management plans.

Officer Contact: Jane Bardsley on 0161 474 2279 or email: jane.bardsley@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Democratic Services Manager submitted a report of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration (copies of which had been circulated) outlining an application from Stockport County Supporters Co-operative to hold its first half marathon on 6 September 2015 which would take in part of the Trans Pennine Trail between Woolpack Bridge through Mersey Vale and on into Manchester.

The Area Committee was advised that at the meeting of the Heatons and Reddish Area Committee held on 13 July 2015 Members had approved the application and requested the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration to investigate alternative arrangements in the event that the proposed works planned along the Trans Pennine Trail Route were not completed in time for the event.

RESOLVED – That the application from Stockport County Supporters Co-operative to hold its first half marathon on 6 September 2015 which will take in part of the Trans Pennine Trail between Woolpack Bridge through Mersey Vale and on into Manchester be approved, subject to the production of appropriate papers, event plan and traffic management plan.