A report providing the Sub-Committee with an update on the proposal relating to Dovedale Close/The Mount.

Further to Minute 16 of the previous meeting, the Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services submitted a report providing the Sub-Committee with an update on the proposal relating to Dovedale Close/The Mount.  A drawing of the advertised restriction was attached to the report at Appendix 1.

The report stated that at the previous meeting the Sub-Committee had raised concerns regarding the length of carriageway that had been covered by proposals of new double-yellow lines from Dovedale Close to Albert Road junctions.  It had been agreed that a decision on this proposal, which had formed part of the 2018A review programme, should be deferred so that officers could consider whether it would be appropriate to create a gap in the yellow line restriction for parking on The Mount.  Officers had reviewed this section of The Mount and had considered that the original recommended proposal remained the recommended proposal for implementation.  Applying the Highway Code rule of no parking within 10m of a junction, there would remain a gap that would be insufficiently long to accommodate parking for the majority of vehicles.  The removal of parking at this section would also benefit visibility for traffic exiting Dovedale Close and for vehicles approaching the junctions of Clifton Park Road and Albert Road.  The report therefore recommended that the Sub-Committee agree to implement this restriction as it had been advertised during the statutory consultation.  This would allow the Traffic Regulation Order for the 2018A programme to be made and the implementation of the programme instructed.

Resolved –

(1)     That the report be noted;

(2)     That the implementation of the Dovedale Close/The Mount restriction, as advertised, to complete the agreements for the 2018A programme, be agreed;

(3)     That the Head of Legal and Democratic Services be authorised to seal the resultant Traffic Regulation Order and no public inquiry be held into the proposals;

(4)     That respondents to the statutory consultation be informed of the decision of the Sub-Committee accordingly, following publication of the approved meeting minutes.