Issue - meetings

Cross-city cycling - scheme detail and approval to deliver

Meeting: 09/06/2016 - Greater Cambridge Partnership Executive Board (Item 12)

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To consider the attached report.

Decision:

The Executive Board:

 

(a)        NOTED the results and key issues arising from the public consultation.

 

(b)        INCREASED the funding allocated to the schemes due to the expansion of scope.

 

(c)        AGREED to continue localised discussions over trees, hedges and boundaries.

 

(d)        APPROVED implementation of all five schemes, subject to a few minor changes and areas where some further consultation is required, as pert the summary table set out in the report.

 

(e)        DELEGATED approval of detailed final scheme layouts to the Executive Director of Economy, Transport and Environment at Cambridgeshire County Council, in consultation with the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board.

 

Minutes:

Councillor Lewis Herbert, Chairman of the Executive Board, opened the item by inviting those members of the public or local Members who had given notice to put forward questions to the Board.  Questions were therefore asked and answered, as follows:

 

Question by Councillor John Williams

 

Councillor John Williams welcomed the two cross city cycling schemes that involved the Fulbourn division of the County Council and confirmed that they had widespread support.  However, he said that this did not address the existing poor cycle and pedestrian crossing at Yarrow Road or the substandard shared cycle path from Fulbourn Road to the Capital Park Business Park.  Councillor Williams added that, in order for the Fulbourn Road scheme to be fully utilised and to tackle congestion in the city, it was important that this substandard shared path was also upgraded at the earliest opportunity.  He therefore sought confirmation that this was in hand.

 

Question by Vince Farrar

 

Vince Farrar reported that Fen Ditton Parish Council had been looking at how to extend the cycleway and join it onto other routes, as well as investigating the possibility of widening Ditton Lane for safety reasons.  He asked the Executive Board to consider additional funding to bridge the gap between Horningsea Road and Ditton Road.

 

Stuart Walmsley, Head of Major Infrastructure Delivery at Cambridgeshire County Council, presented the report which summarised the results of public consultation and proposed next steps in respect of cross city cycling improvement schemes, as well as setting out details of the following specific schemes:

 

·         Fulbourn Road and Cherry Hinton eastern access;

·         Hills Road and Addenbrooke’s corridor;

·         links to east Cambridge and national cycle route 11;

·         Arbury Road;

·         links to Cambridge North Station and the Science Park.

 

In response to the questions, Mr Walmsley said that consideration would be given to the continued development of these schemes as part of Tranche 2 of the City Deal programme. 

 

Councillor Roger Hickford, Chairman of the Joint Assembly, reported that the Assembly, having considered this report at its meeting on 2 June 2016, had unanimously supported the officer recommendations.

 

Councillor Ian Bates, representing Cambridgeshire County Council, sought clarification as to why the cost of the scheme had increased from the initial estimate.  Mr Walmsley explained that the original costs had been estimated in June 2015 without any scheme development taken into account, with the proviso that at that time it was a high level estimate.  Now that the scheme had been worked up, the cost of the scheme could be more accurately projected, hence the request for the Board to approve additional funding. 

 

The Executive Board unanimously:

 

(a)        NOTED the results and key issues arising from the public consultation.

 

(b)        INCREASED the funding allocated to the schemes due to the expansion of scope.

 

(c)        AGREED to continue localised discussions over trees, hedges and boundaries.

 

(d)        APPROVED implementation of all five schemes, subject to a few minor changes and areas where some further consultation is required, as pert the summary table set out in the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 12


Meeting: 02/06/2016 - Greater Cambridge Partnership Joint Assembly (Item 11)

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To consider the attached report.

Decision:

The Joint Assembly RECOMMENDED that the Executive Board:

 

(a)        Notes the results and key issues arising from the public consultation.

 

(b)        Increases the funding allocated to the schemes due to the expansion of scope.

 

(c)        Continues localised discussions over trees, hedges and boundaries.

 

(d)        Gives approval to implement all five schemes, subject to a few minor changes and areas where some further consultation is required, as pert the summary table set out in the report.

 

(e)        Delegates approval of detailed final scheme layouts to the Executive Director of Economy, Transport and Environment at Cambridgeshire County Council, in consultation with the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board.

Minutes:

The Joint Assembly considered a report which summarised the results of public recommendations and proposed next steps in respect of cross city cycling improvement schemes.

 

Mike Davies, Team Leader (Cycling Projects) at Cambridgeshire County Council, provided the Joint Assembly with a brief presentation, setting out details of the following cycling improvement schemes:

 

·         Fulbourn Road and Cherry Hinton eastern access;

·         Hills Road and Addenbrooke’s corridor;

·         links to east Cambridge and national cycle route 11;

·         Arbury Road;

·         links to Cambridge North Station and the Science Park.

 

The presentation included photographs and plans associated with each scheme.

 

Councillor Noel Kavanagh referred to paragraph 15 of the report and a survey that had been undertaken, seeking clarity as to how that was carried out.  Mr Davies confirmed that a combination of surveys had been undertaken to gather this data and that they would continue to be held in order to establish how people were accessing the city.

 

The Joint Assembly unanimously RECOMMENDED that the Executive Board:

 

(a)        Notes the results and key issues arising from the public consultation.

 

(b)        Increases the funding allocated to the schemes due to the expansion of scope.

 

(c)        Continues localised discussions over trees, hedges and boundaries.

 

(d)        Gives approval to implement all five schemes, subject to a few minor changes and areas where some further consultation is required, as pert the summary table set out in the report.

 

(e)        Delegates approval of detailed final scheme layouts to the Executive Director of Economy, Transport and Environment at Cambridgeshire County Council, in consultation with the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board.