Archived decisions

ITEM 2

AT A MEETING of the NEW FOREST TRANSPORT STRATEGY PANEL held on 24 March 2005 in the Wellington Room, Hampshire County Council Offices, The Castle, Winchester .

Hampshire County Council

Councillors: K. B Estlin (In the Chair); J.K. Glen; Mrs P.G. Banks; B.D Dash; L.D. Dunsdon; M.J. Kendal.

Councillor A.W. Rice was in attendance.

New Forest District Council

Councillors: M.G.H. Fiddler; J. Heron; D. Scott; P. Wyeth

Test Valley Borough Council

Councillors: A. Gentle and C. Lewis

35 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

Members were mindful that, where they believed they had a personal or personal prejudicial interest in any matter to be considered at the meeting, they should normally at the time of the debate, declare their interest and, having regard to the circumstances described in paragraphs 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the County Council's Code of Conduct, consider whether to leave the meeting whilst the matter was discussed. No such declarations were made.

36 MINUTES

The Minutes of the meeting of the Panel held on 31 January 2005, were agreed as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

37 CHAIRMAN'S COMMUNICATIONS

There were no Chairman's communications.

38 DEPUTATIONS

There were no deputations.

39 INDICATIVE MEDIUM TERM CAPITAL PROGRAMME 2006/07 AND BEYOND

The Panel considered the report of the Director of Environment (Item 5 in the Minute Book) outlining a possible Transport Capital Programme for 2006/07 and beyond, taking into account likely funding available and the emerging priorities for the new Local Transport Plan.

Casualty Reduction Programme (Appendix 1 paragraph 1). The Chairman informed Members that the Casualty Reduction Programme had proved to be the most successful ever in 2004.

Safer routes to School (Appendix 1 paragraph 2). The number of schools moving towards category 3 of the Safer Routes to School Programme would continue to increase in 2005, placing ever increasing pressure on this budget.

Members were informed that the community transport allocation for 2006/07 (Appendix 1 paragraph 3) was a one-off payment of £500,000. It was noted that an allocation had been made for Holbury/Lyndhurst signing (Appendix 2 paragraph 6), although Members were advised that implementation was subject to the views of the sub Panel.

RESOLVED:

That the proposed draft programmes and priorities for schemes to be provisionally included in the 2006/07 programme and beyond, be endorsed.

40 LOCAL TRANSPORT PLAN 2 : PROBLEMS AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

The Panel considered the report of the Director of Environment (Item 6 in the Minute Book) seeking Members' views on key problems to be addressed in the second Local Transport Plan.

RESOLVED:

That the Director of Environment advise that at the end of formal business, a group workshop be held to discuss the aspects of the Local Transport Plan 2 and ask members to split into two groups: New Forest District Council, Members and Officers and Test Valley Borough Council, Members and Officers, with the appropriate County Council officer support facilitating discussion.

41 DATE, TIME AND VENUE FOR THE NEXT MEETING OF THE PANEL

RESOLVED:

Thursday , 9 June 2005 at 9.30 a.m.
Thursday, 27 October 2005 at 9.30 a.m.

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