Decision details

To consider the outcome of the consultation on the Liveable Neighbourhoods Strategies and consider whether to adopt the documents as Council policy.

RESOLVED (unanimously) that the Cabinet agreed to:

1)  Review the responses to the consultation on the proposed Liveable Neighbourhood strategies.

2)  Delegate the decision to adopt the three Liveable Neighbourhood strategies (Low Traffic Neighbourhoods; Residents’ Parking Schemes; and On-Street Electric Vehicle Charging Strategy) with minor amendments, updates and corrections, to the Director of Partnerships and Corporate Services, in consultation with the Joint Cabinet Members for Transport.

3)  Support the need to allow all schemes once implemented to be in place for a minimum of 6 months to allow behaviour change to occur.

The council has the necessary legal powers to implement the proposed schemes using existing highways legislation.  The government’s declared intention to enact Part 6 of the Traffic Management Act 2004 (expected in Spring 2021) will allow the councils outside London to enforce a broader range of moving traffic offences (rather than the police) which will provide the option to install modal filters with limited vehicular access enforced by automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras, in addition to physical road closures.  In Gear Change, a bold vision for cycling and walking, Department for Transport, July 2020 the government signalled their intention that a warning may be issued for the first offence. 

Liveable Neighbourhoods will be co-designed with the community such that a range of measures can be considered for implementation.