Issue - meetings

Councillor Osman submits a report dealing with the resolution of the Planning and Transportation Committee that “a decision on the Evesham Road/ Saffron Lane Link be deferred for a further report”. The Cabinet  is asked to take no decision to abandon the Evesham Road/Saffron Lane reservation until the matters in the report have been investigated.

Councillor Osman submitted a report dealing with the decision of the former Planning and Transportation Committee with regard to the Evesham Road/Saffron Lane Link.  The Committee had received a report in which the Director of Environment and Development had reviewed Highway Schemes and Reservations and recommended that the Evesham Road/Saffron Lane Link reservation be retained because of its potential for other uses.  The Committee however decided that more information was needed before it considered whether or not the reservation be retained and deferred a decision for a further report.

The Highways and Transportation Scrutiny Committee considered the issue at its meeting on 20 December 2000, the minutes of which were appended to the Cabinet report.  The Scrutiny Committee referred the issue to the Cabinet with a recommendation that the Evesham Road/Saffron Lane Link Highway Improvement Line and Scheme be revoked.

In place of the report's recommendations, Councillor Osman moved and Councillor Draycott seconded 'that the Director of Environment and Development be asked to report back to the next meeting of the Cabinet on the consequences of removing the road from the list of reservations'.

RESOLVED:

that the Director of Environment and Development be asked to report back to the next meeting of the Cabinet on the consequences of removing from the list, the Highway Improvement Scheme and lines originally approved for the purpose of building the Evesham Road/Saffron Lane Link.