Contact: Richard Chinn, tel 02380 427000

1. On 28 March 2002 the County Council approved the following terms of reference for each of the Highway Management Advisory Panels:

(i) To receive reports on highway management topics and programmes, to offer advice and recommendations to the Highway Unit Manager and to monitor and review highway management activities.

(ii) To receive reports on the implementation of traffic management schemes in the Area Transport Strategy programmes relating to that district, to monitor and review progress on those schemes and offer advice and recommendations as appropriate to the relevant project managers.

2. Membership of the Panel consists of all the County Councillors within the borough together with an equal number of Borough Councillors. With respect to Test Valley this will comprise six County Councillors and six Borough Councillors. The Chairman of the Panel is Councillor K B Estlin, the Executive Member for Environment.

3. It is anticipated that the Panel will meet twice per year, approximately autumn and spring, to receive reports as detailed in paragraph 1.

Recommendation

That the report be noted.

7232/RC