Issue - meetings

Councillor Patel submits a report that provides a progress update on Park and Ride and seeks approval to jointly (with the County Council) prepare the Leicester North-West Park and Ride Project Full Business Case to Department for Transport Major Scheme Bid requirements. Cabinet is asked to approve the recommendations set out in Paragraph 3 of the report.

A minute extract from the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board held on 13 May 2010 will be circulated as soon as it is available.

Councillor Patel submitted a report that provided a progress update on Park and Ride and sought approval to jointly (with the County Council) prepare the Leicester North-West Park and Ride Project Full Business Case to Department for Transport Major Scheme Bid requirements.

The comments of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board on 13 May 2010 were noted, and Cabinet supported the request for a further report to be considered by the Board in the summer.

RESOLVED:

                        That Cabinet:

1)     Approves the City Council working with the County Council in

preparing the Leicester North-West Park and Ride Full Business Case to be submitted to the Department for Transport (paragraph 4.11 of the report);

2)     Receives a further report seeking approval of the business

operating model, heads of terms of the Management Partnering Agreement and Full Business Case prior to submission to the Department for Transport (paragraphs 4.11 & 4.12);

3)     Receives a further report including details of how greater

usage of the park and ride would be encouraged and how anticipated increased usage and congestion reduction targets would be measured (paragraph 4.4).