Issue - meetings

Further to Minute 36 (24 September 2013), the Cabinet Member for Regeneration introduced a report on proposed highway improvement works at two major road networks to the north and south-east of the Borough.

The Cabinet Member outlined the extent of the proposed works to the Whalebone Lane North and Ballards Road areas which had a combined value of £550,000.  The report also referred to the proposed allocation of the remaining £100,000 from the Transport for London Local Implementation Plan allocation for 2015/16 to support further feasibility work in connection with downgrading / narrowing of the A1306 New Road and further improvements to the Ballards Road area.

Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Approve the draft proposals for highways improvements to Whalebone Lane North and Ballards Road as set out in the report;

(ii)  Agree the programme of community consultation and engagement with relevant stakeholders in respect of the proposals;

(iii)  Authorise the Divisional Director of Regeneration, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Regeneration, to agree and implement the final schemes following the public consultation; and

(iv)  Authorise the Divisional Director of Regeneration to refine the outline plans to reconfigure / simplify the Ballards Road/New Road junction and to ascertain the potential for and costs of downgrading the A1306 New Road, in preparation for the submission of a Major Scheme bid to Transport for London in September 2016.