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Decision details

Victoria Nova Highway Modifications

Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Built Environment, Cabinet Member for Sustainability and Parking, Cabinet Member for City Management and Customer Services

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

To carry out highway modifications to Buckingham Palace Road and Allington Street to accomodtae the Victoria Nova development

Decision:

1.       That approval be given to the design and implementation of the highway improvements shown on Plans A and B attached in Appendix B to the report.

2.       That approval be given for the developer to appoint their own contractor to implement the scheme.

3.       That approval be given to expenditure of £75,000 necessary to check the detailed design, works methodology and monitor site works to ensure compliance with the City Council’s adopted standards.  All costs will be fully funded by the developer in advance of the works being carried out.

4.       That approval be given to modify and make Traffic Regulation Orders under sections 6, 45 and 63 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 necessary to accommodate the highway improvements, together with the Statement of Reasons, as set out in Appendix C to the report.

5.       That authority be delegated to the Executive Director of City Management and Communities to consider any representations made on Traffic Orders and to decide whether to make the Traffic Orders with or without modifications and to approve minor modifications to the scheme in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Built Environment,  the Cabinet Member for Sustainability and Parking and the Cabinet Member for City Management and Customer Services.

6.       That the Cabinet Member for Built Environment, the Cabinet Member for Sustainability and Parking, and the Cabinet Member for City Management and Customer Services concur with the adoption of recommendations 2.1 to 2.5 to the extent that the matters fall within their Terms of Reference.

 

1.     The proposed highway improvements identified in the report will improve the streetscape and safety for all highway users along Buckingham Palace Road and Allington Street and will help to contribute towards the City for All vision.

Declaration of Interest

The Cabinet Member for The Built Environment declared that he knows the Directors of Land Securities Plc and the internal courtyard will be called after his late partner.

 

Publication date: 22/07/2016

Date of decision: 22/07/2016

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