FUTURE TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION BY THE ENVIRONMENT PRC

NAME	TOPICS
Councillor Mrs Banks	1. New Highway Agency Agreements: what will the new arrangements look like? Will they be much the same but under a new name? Where will the loyalty of the officers lie? Would like to see a monitoring process put in place, from patching up holes and replacing bus shelters (who takes responsibility for the contractors and do they know whom they are working for?) to overall expenditure. Suggest a short annual report from each of the new 11 Highway Management Advisory Panels
	2. Rural transport/accessibility: could more be done cooperatively between districts, Voluntary Sector, Social Services, Youth Service, Education and maybe even Health? Perhaps the CANGO scheme will help but would the LSPs be a good forum for discussion of the subject of shared funding, shared use and needs for school buses/mini buses/post buses/taxi vouchers?
	3. Looking at the use of Parish Partnership money, Environmental Improvement Grants, liaison with the other bodies over Village Appraisals, Market Towns Healthcheck Toolkits. Which districts have their own `Environmental Grants' budget and how much do they pay? Does it have to have matching funding? Do we even wish to try to standardise this across the County or is it better to allow for individual enthusiasms? What comes under Recreation & Heritage Executive decisions and what comes under Environment Executive decisions and why?
Councillor Mrs Byrom	1. South Downs National Park. SDNP is now proceeding to the next, important stage. Many new aspects need to be considered.
	2. Provision of cycle entrances to every school as well as proposed cycle routes. Probably need to liaise with Education.
	3. Programme to upgrade footways in estates built 30/40 years ago. Their roads are also beginning to deteriorate.
	4. Discuss how footways in villages can be kept/brought up to par.
	5. Safety measures in our streets and adjoining buildings used by the public of all ages.
Councillor Davidovitz	1. The roll forward of the current structure plan.
	2. Strategic spatial planning issues in Hampshire.
	3. Current progress on the South Hampshire Study.
	4. Progress on the Blackwater Valley Study.
	5. The practicality of a Local Development Framework (LDF) for Hampshire.
	6. The relationship of the County Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) with future County planning policies.
	7. Minerals and Waste Local Plan Review.
	8. Future Development of Air Transport in UK (consultation)
NAME	TOPICS
Councillor Geddes	1. Debate the Government's aim to increase housing density in urban areas and whether the infrastructure of the areas will be taken into account.
Councillor Knight	1. HCC provision of transport (direct or subsidised)
	2. Transport modal shift.
	3. Tolls/road charges.
	4. Public transport - future changes needed.
Councillor Roberts	1. Whole aspect of spatial policy - looking at the next 15-20 years, both on a county and regional basis, leading to the regional agenda which will include social exclusion as well as social gradient issues.
	2. Relationship between transport, land use and the integration coupled with social mobility.
	3. Effect of development on healthcare and public health and supplementary planning guidance needed.
	4. Rural renaissance and what needs to be done to both stabilise and develop the rural economy.
	5. Urban synergy, both in planning and its wide holistic relationship terms and remembering the Audit Commission report and comments on the County Council strategy on economic prosperity looking at how we reduce the barriers to employment and the whole field of training, transport as well as man use issues.
	6. The delivery side which covers resources and where those resources come from and community involvement.
Councillor Miss Wride	1. Debate how the public can be encouraged to switch to public transport before there are adequate public transport alternatives available to them.
	2. Is it reasonable or appropriate to under-provide car parking facilities prior to adequate public transport alternatives being available, pushing cars onto adjacent roads causing traffic problems that otherwise would not exist? Example 1 - Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth: deliberating under-providing 400 staff car parking spaces. Example 2 - Havant College.

Responses received by 19 November 2002

Compiled by: Debbie Vaughan

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