Issue details

Leeds Safer Roads Vision Zero 2040 - Draft Strategy for Consultation

The draft Leeds Safer Roads Vision Zero 2040 Road Safety Strategy details how Leeds City Council and partners will work towards achieving our vision ‘to ensure that by 2040 no one is killed or very seriously injured on the roads in Leeds’.

Executive Board will be requested to:

a)  Note the production of the Leeds Safer Roads Vision Zero Strategy 2040;

b)  Endorse the draft action plan for consultation purposes;

c)  To note that a public consultation and engagement exercise will follow Executive Board to help inform the strategy;

d)  To note that the Director of City Development continues to be the lead officer for the delivery of the Vision Zero strategy and will report back to Executive Board following public consultation with a final strategy.

Decision type: Key Decision

Reason Key: Affects more than 1 ward;

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Notice of proposed decision first published: 11/01/2022

Decision due: 9 Feb 2022 by Executive Board

Lead director: Director of City Development

Department: City Development

Contact: Lynsey McGarvey, Principal Transport Planner 0113 378 4157 Email: lynsey.mcgarvey@leeds.gov.uk.

Consultation process

This builds on internal consultation and development of the draft Action Plan with the Leeds Safer Roads partnership.

Internal and external consultation ongoing

Public Consultation and engagement exercise planned for early in 2022

Consultees

  All ward councillors

  The West Yorkshire Combined Authority

  Leeds residents and businesses

  Third sector interest groups

  Emergency Services

  Public transport operators

  West Yorkshire districts

Portfolio Holder: Executive Member for Infrastructure and Climate

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Documents

  • The report to be issued to the decision maker with the agenda for the meeting