Decision details

(i)        to instruct the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning, following consultation with the Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services and Chief Officer – Capital, to implement a revised roads hierarchy in a sequential and incremental manner, as described in this report, to encompass formal reclassification of the urban road network and changes to road signage and junction improvements to reinforce the hierarchy;

(ii)       to instruct the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning to develop improvements to priority and secondary corridors to achieve a more efficient movement of people and goods, with an emphasis on walking, cycling and public transport;

(iii)      to note the findings of the SCPR and instruct the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning to develop a draft Car Parking Strategy and to report back to this Committee in summer 2020;

(iv)      to instruct the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning to proceed with public and stakeholder consultation on the draft SUMP and report back to this Committee with a finalised SUMP in November 2019, thus completing this key CIVITAS PORTIS work package; and

(v)       to instruct the Director of Resources to consider the outcomes of these studies within future years’ budget setting processes.