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(i)        to adopt the SUMP as presented in Appendix A;

(ii)       to instruct the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning, in consultation with the Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services, to commence delivery of the small-scale projects listed in the SUMP that can be progressed in the short-term; and

(iii)      to instruct the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning and Chief Officer – Capital, to develop a prioritised delivery programme of transport interventions (to encompass larger-scale interventions recommended in the SUMP and the City Centre Masterplan, as well projects arising from the recent Roads Hierarchy review and the ongoing Low Emission Zone development process) to inform the Capital budget process and report this programme back to Committee in due course.

With reference to article 11 of the minute of meeting of 6 June 2019, the Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning which sought the adoption of the final draft Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) for Aberdeen.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)       adopt the SUMP as presented in Appendix A in the report;

(b)       instruct the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning, in consultation with the Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services, to commence delivery of the small-scale projects listed in the SUMP that can be progressed in the short-term; and

(c)       instruct the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning and Chief Officer – Capital, to develop a prioritised delivery programme of transport interventions (to encompass larger-scale interventions recommended in the SUMP and the City Centre Masterplan, as well projects arising from the recent Roads Hierarchy review and the ongoing Low Emission Zone development process) to inform the Capital budget process and report this programme back to Committee in due course.

The Convener, seconded by the Vice Convener moved:-

            that the Committee approve the recommendations contained within the report and outlined above.

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

            that the Committee:-

(1)     approve recommendations (a) and (c) as contained within the report and outlined above;

(2)     that the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning submit a report to this Committee detailing the measures that could be progressed in the short term together with details of the costs involved and the priority in which the measures contained in the report would be progressed;

(3)     that the Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services submit a report to this Committee on possible measures, together with the cost and practical implications, of restricting HGV access on Victoria Road between the junctions of Crombie Road and St Fitticks Road in order to enhance residential amenity; and

(4)     note that cyclists are very vulnerable in any collision with vehicles and agrees that, wherever practical, cycle lanes should be physically segregated from carriageways carrying vehicle traffic.

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

The Committee resolved:-

to adopt the motion.