The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation):
a) Noted the Executive Board approval on 21st April 2021 to progress the
Get Building Fund schemes including Crown Point Road;
b) Approved the preliminary design for the Crown Point Road highways
scheme, which is shown in Appendix A, to allow the scheme to progress to
detailed design and construction;
c) Authorised expenditure of £3.75m from capital scheme No.
33401/CRO/000 for the Crown Point Road highway scheme in accordance with
the approved preliminary design;
d) Approved that the lengths of existing footway and carriageway that are
to be converted to cycle tracks (as shown in the drawings in Appendix A) are
removed as footway and carriageway and that, in their place, cycle tracks are
constructed under the powers contained under the provisions of Section 65(1)
of the Highways Act 1980 for segregated use by pedal cyclists, or for shared
joint use by pedal cyclists and pedestrians, where this is the case;
e) Requested that the City Solicitor revoke and/or amend any existing
Traffic Regulation Orders (TRO) as necessary and to advertise the new TROs that are required for the scheme (Appendix D) and, if no valid objections are
received, to make, seal and implement the TROs as advertised;
f) Gave authority to display notices on site under the provisions of Section
23 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 in order to inform the public of the
proposed formal pedestrian crossings;
g) Gave authority to request the City Solicitor to draft and advertise a
Notice under the provisions of Section 90C of the Highways Act 1980 for the
implementation of traffic calming to complement some of the proposed
pedestrian crossings;
h) Accepted the dedication of land on the former Tetley Brewery site and
enter into the required deed. The extents of the land to be dedicated are shown
in Appendix B;
i) Approved the use of the Contractor Framework to procure a contractor
to construct the scheme as per the approved preliminary design; and
j) Noted that the proposed preliminary design is predicated on a
reclassification of the route from its ‘A road’ status, and the details and
implications of this will be the subject of another report.