A report informing the Sub-Committee that the statutory consultation agreed at the meeting in June 2025 for rectifying TRO issues discovered within the Town Centre Red Route order has been carried out and highlighting an issue that has been discovered and, since rectified, with non-compliant yellow-line restrictions on Durham Close.

Further to Minute 8 of the previous meeting, the Sub-Committee received a report that informed them that the statutory consultation that had been agreed at the previous meeting for rectifying TRO issues that had been discovered in the Town Centre Red Route order had been carried out.  No objections had been received and therefore the TRO would be made.  The report also highlighted an issue that had been discovered, and since rectified, with non-compliant yellow line restrictions on Durham Close.  The following appendices were attached to the report:

The report explained that as part of the rectification scheme, officers had also been identifying areas where signing and lining relating to restrictions required improvement and had been actioning any required changes.  In addition, part of the Action Plan that had been agreed by Council in October 2024, and monitored by the Audit and Governance Committee, had included a commitment to establish a process for raising and addressing any further issues that might be discovered with other TROs.  While the Digital TRO Project was expected to mitigate the risks of TRO issues, there would be instances where issues were found with existing orders and that there should be a more ‘business as usual’ process for addressing these as they arose.  Officers had discovered further issues for which enforcement had ceased as follows:

• London Street southbound bus lane (reported to the June 2025 meeting);
• Town Centre Red Route – Various ‘split-use’ bays;
• Durham Close – Double-yellow lines.

With regard to Durham Close, a section had been found to have double-yellow-lines in place that were not covered by a TRO.  It was suspected that these long-standing markings were in place in an advisory capacity before the section of road had been adopted as Highway, but had remained in place.  Enforcement had been ceased immediately and the lines had been removed, following discussion with Ward Councillors regarding their necessity.

The report stated that in respect of the Digital TRO Project, officers were awaiting the outcome of a recent Government consultation regarding the potential implementation of their new regulations.  It was anticipated that this would be in early 2026.  The incoming legislation continued to inform the delivery order/priority of the overall project.  The software supplier who was providing the TRO management suite had been appointed and officers were now in the early stages of onboarding, process and delivery mapping.  Development of the project was being monitored via the Council’s Customer Experience Board, with additional reporting to the Transformation and Efficiency Board, and progress was being reported to the Audit and Governance Committee as part of the wider Action Plan remit of that Committee.  Further updates would be submitted to the meeting once dates of key initial project milestones had been agreed with the supplier.

Resolved –

(1)      That the report be noted;

(2)      That no public enquiry be held into the proposals.