Issue - meetings

(i)       to approve the Aberdeen Active Travel Action Plan 2021-2026, included at Appendix 5;

(ii)       to instruct the Chief Officer- Strategic Place Planning, in collaboration with the Chief Officer - Capital and Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services, to commence delivery of the Aberdeen Active Travel Action Plan 2021-2026, maximising external funding opportunities, and to report back on progress against the Action Plan on an annual basis by way of a Service Update; and

(iii)      to note that the Aberdeen Active Travel Action Plan 2021-2026 helps to support the Council’s ambitious Net Zero carbon plans for Aberdeen.

With reference to article 31 of the minute of meeting of the Communities, Housing and Infrastructure Committee of 24 January 2017, the Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning which sought approval of the Aberdeen Active Travel Action Plan 2021-2026.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      approve the Aberdeen Active Travel Action Plan 2021-2026, included at Appendix 5 of the report;

(b)      instruct the Chief Officer- Strategic Place Planning, in collaboration with the Chief Officer - Capital and Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services, to commence delivery of the Aberdeen Active Travel Action Plan 2021-2026, maximising external funding opportunities, and to report back on progress against the Action Plan on an annual basis by way of a Service Update; and

(c)      note that the Aberdeen Active Travel Action Plan 2021-2026 helps to support the Council’s ambitious Net Zero carbon plans for Aberdeen.

The Convener, seconded by the Vice Convener moved:-

           that the Committee approve the recommendations contained within the report.

Councillor Cooke, seconded by Councillor McRae, moved as an amendment:-

           that the Committee –

(1)    approve the recommendations contained within the report; and

(2)    instruct the Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services to bring a report to the Committee, outlining the cost of maintaining the existing statutory and advisory 20 MPH limits across the city, and examining the feasibility and potential costs of extending 20 MPH limits to additional residential areas.

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

The Committee resolved:-

to adopt the motion.