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Chairs Communications

Minutes:

54.1         The Chair provided the following Communications:

 

“Welcome to this special meeting of the Environment, Transport & Sustainability Committee at which we will be considering the report on the 20mph limit phase 2 consultation.

I have called this special meeting, with the agreement of the lead opposition committee members, Councillor Theobald and Councillor Mitchell, to allow an extended period for public and member consideration of this particularly important matter. I am grateful to all members of the committee, and officers for making the time in your busy diaries to be here today.

There have been a number of documents received relating to the 20mph phase 2 proposals. While many have been emailed to members at different stages, and they have all been deposited in the Members room, for clarity I asked officers to circulate hard copies to members as a bundle.  I trust you have all received these from the deputy head of law in the courier on Monday.  For the record, the following items were circulated in the bundle”:

 

(List of documents read out by the Deputy Head of Law at the meeting)

 

·        Copies of the written consultation responses received from:-

 

GMB dated 03 October 2013

Woodland Drive Action Committee dated 03 October 2013

Local resident dated 04 October 2013/26 September 2013/11 September 2013/21 March 2013

Brighton & Hove Streamline Ltd dated 04 October 2013

Local resident (Dyke Road Avenue) dated 16 August 2013

Local Resident (Boundary Road) dated 27 August 2013

Friends of the Earth dated 02 October 2013

Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company dated 02 October 2013

Bus Users UK dated 02 October 2013

Southern Taxi’s, Brighton Streamline, Brighton & Hove Radio Cabs dated 03 October 2013

Copy of a Petition (unnamed) received on 03 October 2013

 

·        List of consultation responses to Question 3 of the consultation documents, listed street by street. (Emailed to councillors on 27 November 2013; published on the council website on 28 November 2013 and placed in Members’ Rooms on 29th November)

 

·        Letter from Bricycles/CTC dated 04 October 2013 in response to the consultation.  (Emailed to councillors on and copies added to information in the Members’ rooms on 03 December 2013.)

 

·        Email in relation to page 27 of the report which relates to the removal of duplicate submissions (emailed to councillors on 29 November 2013 and placed in Members’ Rooms on 29th November)

 

·        Copy of a Petition received on 04 October 2013 regarding Friars Road and Woodbourne Avenue

 

·        Solicitors letter from Howlett Clark Cushman dated 06 December 2013 and officer response dated 09 December 2013. (Emailed to Councillors on 09 December and added to Members’ rooms on 091213.)

 

“At my request the Deputy Head of Law also circulated by email yesterday an additional item relating to the proposals for the Patcham and Hollingbury area.  Hard copies of this item have been distributed to the meeting.

I’m sorry to say that for personal reasons, Emma Sheridan, who was due to present the report on 20mph today is unable to be with us. Martin Heath, Road Safety Manager will be introducing the report along with Dave Parker, Head of Transport Planning.

The consultation on initial proposals for phase 2 of 20 mph has received a very high response from the public, with close to 58,000 surveys circulated and nearly 15,000 responses received.  28 staffed exhibitions were held at 18 locations, which along with special stakeholder meetings, additional correspondence, and a number of petitions, have all together made this perhaps the largest transport consultation the council has ever conducted. 

I would like to thank residents, businesses and other stakeholders as well as members for their input, and I am sure members of the committee will also wish to join me in thanking Emma Sheridan and other officers involved for all the hard work they have put into this project so far. 

I’m sure as we hear from public and members, and consider the proposals in the report, we will all be particularly mindful of the aims of the Council’s 20 mph programme, as set out in section 1.2 of the report, and that at the heart of those aims is our shared desire to improve safety for all road users; particularly the young, old and other vulnerable people in the city”.

 

 


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