Agenda item - Traffic Regulation order - Junction Road, Queens Road and West Street

Report of the Executive Director of Environment, Development & Housing (copy to follow).

That, having taken account of all duly made representations and objections, the Committee approves the following Order:

·        Brighton & Hove (Junction Road, Queens Road and West Street) (One-Way Traffic and Prohibition of Right Turns) Order 20**

Subject to the amendment that Schedule 2, Item 2 (ban on right turns for vehicles exiting the station taxi rank) is removed from the Order.

17.1         The Committee considered a report of the Executive Director of Environment, Development & Housing that presented the objections received to the advertising of a TRO seeking to make permanent the temporary traffic arrangements currently in place in Queen’s Road and West Street.

17.2         Councillor Theobald stated that the ban on right turns for southbound traffic on West Street should be removed from the Order as he believed there would be an unacceptable increase of traffic on the seafront.

17.3         Councillor Davey stated that prior to the temporary re-modelling, traffic would queue back from the car parks impacting on traffic using Queens Road. This had such a detrimental impact on traffic flow that Brighton & Hove Buses had re-directed their services away from that area.

17.4         The Chair then put the recommendations to a vote with the following outcome:

For: 8

Against: 2

Abstentions: 0

17.5         RESOLVED- That, having taken account of all duly made representations and objections, the Committee approves the following Order:

·        Brighton & Hove (Junction Road, Queens Road and West Street) (One-Way Traffic and Prohibition of Right Turns) Order 20**

Subject to the amendment that Schedule 2, Item 2 (ban on right turns for vehicles exiting the station taxi rank) is removed from the Order.