Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2020/011

Contact: Hugh Potter, Group Manager – Area Operations Hub Tel: 07766 998704

Report by Director for Community Operations (Interim) (CMDE10).

The report presents responses received to a statutory consultation to provide the above bus gate. Currently a concrete barrier is provided at the point where the bus gate is proposed which prevents the passage of any motor vehicle. The introduction of a bus gate at the point Larch Drive meets Diamond Drive was included in the planning consent for the Great Western park residential development to remove the potential for ‘rat-running’ traffic to use these roads as a route between the Wantage road and Park Road. 

The Cabinet Member for the Environment is RECOMMENDED to approve the proposed bus gate at the point Larch Drive meets Diamond Drive.

Approved.

Noted developer agreed to provide finance for advanced signing

The Cabinet Member for Environment considered a report (CMDE10) presenting responses received to a statutory consultation to provide a bus gate at the point where Larch Drive met Diamond Drive, Didcot to replace a concrete barrier which currently prevented the passage of any motor vehicle.

Officers read out a submission from a CJ MacDonald-Bradley.setting out requirements for advanced signage to this location. He had also urged that the recommendation not to allow motorcycles to pass the gate be reconsidered, for the reason specified clearly by the one Respondent. It would not prevent motorcycles but merely 'hinder' them, possibly leading to frustration and to them looking to ride on pavements or other, to avoid camera enforcement. If the Council did insist on preventing the very few motorcycles that passed here then it must be prepared to ensure that the restriction was enforced.

Officers confirmed that the developers Taylor Wimpey had now agreed to provide for advanced signing and the intention was to prohibit all motor vehicles except buses.

Noting that the main objection had been met by the developer providing  advanced signing and having regard to the information set out in the report before her and representations made at the meeting the Cabinet Member for Environment confirmed her decision as follows: 

to approve the proposed bus gate at the point Larch Drive meets Diamond Drive.

Signed …………………………………

Cabinet Member for Environment

Date of signing………………………..