Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2019/157

Contact: Sean Rooney, Service Lead – Highway Maintenance Tel: 07770 734707

Report by Director for Community Operations (Interim) (CMDE11).

This report has been produced to seek approval from the Cabinet Member for Environment for several revised Highways Policy Statements. The policy statements have been updated because of the establishment of the new Highways Code of Practice (October 2018).

This approach follows Cabinet approval in November 2017 for the development of a new Highways Infrastructure Management framework with agreement of updated policy statements and procedures would be via reports to the Cabinet Member for Environment Delegated decisions meetings or by the relevant Director dependent on the level of service change.

The first tranche of updated policy statements was presented to the cabinet Member for Environment on 20 December 2018. The table set out in the report shows which policies have been approved, which are in this report and those requiring a future update.

The Cabinet Member for Environment is RECOMMENDED to endorse the Highway Policy Statements covered in Annex (1a-j) together with the report CMDE11.

Approved

The Cabinet Member for Environment considered (CMDE11) several revised Highways Policy Statements which had been updated because of the establishment of the new Highways Code of Practice in October 2018.

Mr Fermer advised that the Statements had been through a Cabinet Advisory Group and Scrutiny process.

The Cabinet Member for Environment welcomed the report which had been well presented.  Therefore, having regard to the information in the report and the Statements and subject to amending “endorse” to “approve” in the recommendation she confirmed her decision as follows:

to approve the Highway Policy Statements covered in Annex (1a-j) together with the report CMDE11.

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Cabinet Member for Environment

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