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