Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Director of Place Management.

The report provides information in relation to proposed footpath improvements to PROW 77 between Sandown Road and the access road to Hazel Grove Golf Club, including vegetation management. This report also provides information on the results following a consultation exercise which has been carried out with residents.

The Area Committee is requested to recommend that the Cabinet Member for Economy & Regeneration gives approval to the scheme.

Officer contact: Adam Meadowcroft, email: adam.meadowcroft@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Strategic Head of Service (Legal & Democratic Governance and Monitoring Officer) submitted a report of the Director of Place Management (copies of which had been circulated) providing information in relation to proposed footpath improvements to PROW 77 between Sandown Road and the access road to Hazel Grove Golf Club, including vegetation management. The report also provided information on the results following a consultation exercise which had been carried out with residents.

The following comments were made/issues raised:-

·      That the item had been considered by the Committee at the November meeting, where it was resolved that the item be deferred to a future meeting pending the completion of a consultation with residents.

·      Welcomed the results of the consultation and thanked officers.

·      Raised concerns in relation to the potential for the pathway to be used by motorcycles and electric scooters and requested that the situation be monitored in relation to anti-social behaviour and use.

·      It was commented that residents had been previously concerned as a bridleway had been proposed, which would be longer and wider and therefore more likely to experience anti-social behaviour and use relating to motorcycles and electric scooters.

RESOLVED – That the Cabinet Member for Economy & Regeneration be recommended to give approval to the scheme.