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Forward Plan Ref: 2017/025

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Report by Director for Infrastructure Delivery (CMDE9).

These proposals have been put forward by a retail business with premises in the shopping centre to facilitate safe and convenient loading of goods vehicles servicing the shopping centre. The proposal, if approved, would be funded by this business but would be available to any goods vehicle (irrespective of the business being served) during the times of the proposed restriction and to any vehicle outside these times.  The report presents responses received in the course of a statutory consultation to restrict the use of a layby on the south side of School Lane adjacent to the local shopping centre to goods vehicles for the purposes of loading and unloading between 7am and 7pm on all days of the week.

The Cabinet Member for Environment is RECOMMENDED to approve proposals to restrict the use of a layby on the south side of School Lane adjacent to the local shopping centre to goods vehicles for the purposes of loading and unloading between 7am and 7pm on all days of the week as advertised.

Approved

The Cabinet Member for Environment considered responses received to a statutory consultation restricting the use of a layby on the south side of School Lane adjacent to the local shopping centre to goods vehicles for the purposes of loading and unloading between 7am and 7pm on all days of the week. The proposals had been put forward by a retail business with premises in the shopping centre in order to facilitate safe and convenient loading of goods vehicles servicing the shopping centre. They were also funding the proposal and making it available to any goods vehicle (irrespective of the business being served) during the times of the proposed restriction and to any vehicle outside these times. 

Accepting that the impact of the proposal on parents dropping off and collecting children would be minimal and that in any event that was a practice that shouldn’t be encouraged the Cabinet Member for Environment, having regard to the information set out in the report before her confirmed her decision as follows:

approve proposals to restrict the use of a layby on the south side of School Lane adjacent to the local shopping centre to goods vehicles for the purposes of loading and unloading between 7am and 7pm on all days of the week as advertised.

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Cabinet Member for Environment

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