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to approve the draft Transport Options identified in Appendix A – Table 2 of the report to progress to the appraisal stage and instruct the Chief Officer – Place to advise the Aberdeen City Region Deal Joint Committee of the approval, if given.

With reference to article 14 of the minute of meeting of 19 June 2018, the Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning which provided details of the outcomes of the Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance Pre-Appraisal undertaken as the first stage of a Strategic Transport Appraisal component of the Aberdeen City Region Deal.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee approve the draft Transport Options identified in Appendix A – Table 2 of the report to progress to the appraisal stage and instruct the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning to advise the Aberdeen City Region Deal Joint Committee of the approval, if given.

The Convener, seconded by the Vice Convener moved:-

            that the Committee approve the recommendation contained within the report.

Councillor Nicoll, seconded by Councillor Townson moved as an amendment:-

            that the Committee:-

(1)     approve the recommendation contained within the report;

(2)     welcome the publication by the Scottish Government on 3 September 2019, of the Government’s Programme for Scotland 2019-20;

(3)     note the commitment of the Scottish Government to a Scottish Green Deal that is committed to invest over £500million in improving bus priority infrastructure to tackle the impacts of congestion and bus services and raise bus usage;

(4)     instruct the Chief Officer - Strategic Place Planning to contact the Scottish Government to ascertain how Aberdeen City Council could access funding from the Scottish Government investment to assist in improving bus priority infrastructure to tackle the impacts of congestion on bus services and raise bus usage in line with the aligned recommended options contained within the report; and

(5)     instruct the Chief Officer - Strategic Place Planning to report back to this Committee at the next meeting on 26 November 2019 or as soon as practical thereafter with details of progress made to secure additional funding to improve bus priority infrastructure to tackle the impacts of congestion on bus services and raise bus usage.

On a division, there voted:- for the motion (5) – the Convener, the Vice Convener and Councillors Boulton, Donnelly, Laing; for the amendment (4) – Councillors Flynn, Nicoll, Townson and Yuill.

The Committee resolved:-

to adopt the motion.