Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Executive Councillor (Communities & Housing)

The report provides an update on the outcomes and recommendations of the Scrutiny Committee’s review in 2015/16 on repairing potholes and other defects – process and quality. The findings of the Scrutiny Review led to a more detailed analysis if the Council’s highways reactive maintenance process which has led to the action presented in the report.

The Executive is requested to note the report and approve that the recommendations included in the Reactive Maintenance Review are implemented in accordance with the proposed action plan in appendix 3.

Officer Contact: Sue Stevenson, 0161 474 4351, sue.stevenson@stockport.gov.uk

The Executive Councillor (Communities & Housing) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Executive to consider a proposed response to the recommendations made by the Environment & Economy Scrutiny Committee as part of its Review ‘Repairing Potholes and Other Defects – Process and Quality’. The findings of the Scrutiny Review had led to a more detailed analysis of the Council’s highways reactive maintenance process which had informed the proposed actions and response.

Executive councillors commended the work done in the Scrutiny Review and in developing the comprehensive response.

RESOLVED – (1) That the response to the ‘Repairing Potholes and Other Defects – Process and Quality’ Scrutiny Review Final Report be approved, and that a progress report on the implementation of the response be submitted to the Scrutiny Committee in 12 months’ time.

(2) That the Executive’s gratitude and appreciation be recorded for the excellent work undertaken by the Scrutiny Review Panel and others involved.