Agenda item

6.1

The Director of Regeneration and Development Services submitted a report seeking authority to process a Cycle Track Order, required to convert the existing footpath linking Earl Marshall Road to Rushby Street into a shared footpath/cycle track.  The report stated that the proposed shared facility would form part of a new signed cycle route, required as a planning condition attached to the new Fir Vale Primary School.  Following initial consultations undertaken in accordance with the Cycle Track Regulations 1984, officers had provided responses to two utility companies who had objected to the Order.  It was further stated that additional consultation would be undertaken, subject to the Committee’s approval of the proposed Order.

6.2

The Director of Regeneration and Development Services reported orally that the two utility companies had now withdrawn their objections to the Order.

6.3

RESOLVED: That (a) no objections be raised to the proposed conversion of the existing footpath between Earl Marshall Road and Rushby Street to a shared footpath/cycle track, as detailed in the report of the Director of Regeneration and Development Services now submitted and as shown on the plan now exhibited, subject to satisfactory arrangements being made with the Statutory Undertakers with regard to their mains and services that may be affected;

(b) authority be given to the Director of Legal Services to take all necessary action on the matter under powers contained within Section 3 of the Cycle Tracks Act 1984; and

(c) in the event of no objections being received, or all objections being resolved, authority be given for the Order to be confirmed as an Unopposed Order.