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Executive – 7 December 2004

ADDENDA

Item

4. Petitions and Public Address

Speaker	Item
Councillor Lesley Sibley (Scrutiny Review Group) Mrs Corinne Grimley-Evans (Oxford Pedestrians Association)	5 – Air Pollution – Scrutiny Review
Councillor Jean Fooks (as mover of the motion in Council)	8 – Parking Spaces for Disabled Residents
Councillor Jean Fooks } (Scrutiny Councillor David Wilmshurst } Review Group)	10 – Job Evaluation – Scrutiny Review
Councillor Roger Belson (Scrutiny Review Group)	11 – Cost of Agency Care Workers Scrutiny Review
Councillor Barbara Gatehouse (Shadow Executive)	12 – Prevention and Day Care Services for Older People
Councillor Jean Fooks (as Social & Health Care Scrutiny Committee Chair)	13 – Children’s Residential Review: Hollow Way, Oxford
Councillor Neville F. Harris (Shadow Executive)	14 – Community Safety Strategies

5. Air Pollution – Scrutiny Review

(EX5- Supplementary Report)

Item 5 - Air Pollution – Scrutiny Review

Decisions of City Council Executive Board, 30 November 2005

in respect of the recommendations of the Scrutiny Review Group

1. The joint Review Group RECOMMENDS the Executives to extend agree that the Membership of the Bus Quality Partnership should be extended to all operators and to use it to set targets within two years for the minimum percentage of buses (for each operator) that conform to the highest emission standards (by being equipped with emission reduction technology (including retro-fitting of tail-pipe technology)); AND to include agreements on limiting the number of buses on competing routes.
2. The joint Review Group RECOMMENDS the Executives to ask bus operators to introduce pre-ticketing, greater through-journey ticketing, and cross-operator ticketing arrangements, especially using stored-value cards;
3. The joint Review Group RECOMMENDS the Executives to demonstrate in 12 months time how they have used a strengthened Freight Quality Partnership has been used to reduce the congestion being caused in the city centre from large delivery lorries, by: -

• reducing the number and size of vehicles
• ensuring deliveries only take place between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m.
• encouraging increased use of transhipment to smaller vehicles at the edge of the City, and
• increasing the proportion of delivery vehicles with reduced emission profiles;

4. The joint Review Group RECOMMENDS the Executives to support the use of the Taxi Quality Partnership to require further emission reduction in return for granting taxis the ability to use Botley Road bus lane.
5. The joint Review Group RECOMMENDS the Executives to recognise that the City Council already has targets in place to get all Council vehicles to conform to the highest emission standards, and to ensure that ask the County Council to undertakes to: -

• set targets for the percentage of its vehicles to be equipped with green technology;
• set targets for the percentage of current contracts to be renewed or replaced by contracts stipulating the use of green vehicles, especially school buses;
• reveal the level of improvement achieved every year through the establishment of a fleet emissions audit, as is done by the City Council;

6. The joint Review Group RECOMMENDS the Executives to ensure that periodic road-side emission testing is carried out, perhaps in partnership with other councils, in order to ensure greater compliance with emission standards;
7. The joint Review Group RECOMMENDS the Executives to review the quantity and location of on-street parking in the city centre, and review the enforcement of Residents’ Parking Zones outside the City Centre, especially where occurring on bus routes;
8. The joint Review Group RECOMMENDS the Executives agree to work more closely with cycling and pedestrian groups, and to employ a full-time pedestrians and cyclists officer, in order to give fresh impetus to their walking and cycling strategies and achieve their stated targets

(a) ask the County Council to designate an appropriate officer to be the lead officer on pedestrian and cyclists issues;

(b) ask City Council officers to try to respond positively to requests from cyclists and pedestrians;

9. The joint Review Group RECOMMENDS the Executives to run a campaign to raise awareness of air pollution issues and what how the public can do to could help and what advantages there would be for them, subject to achieving clarity concerning the approach to be taken and the desired outcomes;
10. The joint Review Group RECOMMENDS the Executives to increase City centre parking charges at least in line with inflation so as to increase bus usage, especially Park and Ride;
11. The joint Review Group RECOMMENDS the Executives to implement a policy requiring an environmental impact assessment, that specifically includes air quality, to be done for all proposed major schemes and large developments (e.g. the Westgate and West End proposals) and to require Travel Plans should be required for all major developments;
12. The joint Review Group RECOMMENDS the Executives ask the County Council to include statutory air quality targets in the new Local Transport Plan;
13. The joint Review Group RECOMMENDS the Executives to establish a joint process to manage further development and implementation of an Air Quality Action Plan, so as to guarantee a shared corporate approach now and in the future, and to report back to both Scrutiny Committees on their specific proposals for achieving this closer working between the Councils;
14. The joint Review Group RECOMMENDS the Executives to strengthen the Air Quality Action Plan by including further options as listed in Appendix 5;
15. The joint Review Group RECOMMENDS the Executives to ensure full public consultation on the Air Quality Action Plan and to include improving air quality as a priority in both the Oxfordshire Community Partnership and the City’s Local Strategic Partnership;