Issue - meetings

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

The report provides the findings of a consultation exercise for the Road Safety around Schools scheme around Didsbury Road Primary School and to seek approval for the introduction of Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs), associated signage and bollards.

The Area Committee is asked to give approval for the following proposals for

Road Safety measures around Didsbury Road Primary School: -

(i)            The installation of bollards on Cavendish Road and Didsbury Road.

(ii)          Provision of new School warning signs with flashing wig-wags on Didsbury Road

Officer contact: -Craig Peet, 0161 474 4813, craig.peet@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) providing the findings of a consultation exercise for the Road Safety around

Schools scheme around Didsbury Road Primary School and to seek approval for the introduction of Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs), associated signage and bollards.

Members commented that the issues raised were being addressed and there was a real commitment to get it right for the community. Members also supported the scheme and thanked officers for the report.

RESOLVED – That approval be given for the following proposals for Road Safety measures around Didsbury Road Primary School: -

(i)            The installation of bollards on Cavendish Road and Didsbury Road and the provision of new ‘School;’ warning signs with flashing wag-wags on Didsbury Road and as detailed on the plan appended to the report.

(ii)          Recommended that the Cabinet Member for Communities & Housing gives approval to the legal advertising of the package of traffic regulation orders detailed in Appendix A of the report and, subject to the receipt of no objections within 21 days of the advertisement date, the subsequent making of the orders.

(iii)         Noted that both elements of the scheme at (1) and (2) above would be funded from the Road Safety around Schools programme budget allocation.