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EVESHAM ROAD/SAFFRON LANE LINK ROAD

Meeting: 12/02/2001 - Cabinet - for meetings after 09/05/11, please see 'City Mayor & Cabinet' (Item 140)

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Councillor Osman submits a report advising the Cabinet on the implications of revoking the improvement lines and schemes originally made to protect the route of the Evesham Road-Saffron Lane Link Road.  The Cabinet is asked to re-affirm that the City Council has no intention to build the strategic East-West link, ask the Director of Environment and Development to carry out studies into light rapid transit and Upperton Road as quickly as possible and report back to the Cabinet and to agree to take no further action on the improvement lines and schemes at this stage.

Minutes:

Following discussion at the last meeting, Councillor Osman submitted a report advising the Cabinet on the implications of revoking the improvement lines and schemes originally made to protect the route of the Evesham Road-Saffron Lane Link Road.

 

Councillor Osman reiterated that the Council had no intention to build a strategic East/West Link Road on this route and asked the Cabinet to re?affirm this.

 

It was noted, however, that there were a number of questions relating to the future potential use of this land which could not be answered until further studies were carried out.  There were a number of potential uses for the land, as currently reserved, as follows:-

 

a)         a modern tram line or other public transport route;

 

b)         a new road to act as an alternative to Upperton Road, in the event of the viaduct having to be closed to some or all classes of motor vehicle;

 

c)         a new road to provide access to industrial land between the reservation and the Leicester-Coalville railway line.

 

It was noted that the results of studies on potential uses for this area of land would be completed in about a year's time.  Whilst the Cabinet did not want to build new major roads, it did not want to cut off options for alternative uses.

 

RESOLVED:

(1)that the City Council's position that it has no intention to build the strategic east-west link, be re-affirmed;

 

(2)that the Director of Environment and Development be requested to carry out studies into light rapid transit systems and Upperton Road, as quickly as possible and report back to the Cabinet as soon as it is known what implications there are for the future of the improvement lines and schemes; and

 

(3)that no further action be taken on the improvement lines and schemes at this stage.