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Committee: LANCASHIRE LOCAL - LANCASTER DISTRICT JOINT COMMITTEE Date: TUESDAY, 19 JANUARY 2010 Venue: LANCASTER TOWN HALL Time: 6.30 P.M. A G E N D A Page 1 Agenda Item 1 Telephone (01772) 533425 Fax (01772) 530949 To: All Members of Lancashire Local – Lancaster Email [email protected] District Your ref Our ref DS/LL Copies to: Libraries/County Information Centres th and Parish and Town Council’s Date 11 January 2010 Dear Councillor Lancashire Local – Lancaster District 19th January 2010 A meeting of the Lancashire Local – Lancaster District will be held on Tuesday, 19th January 2010 at 6.30pm at the Town Hall, Lancaster. An agenda for the meeting is enclosed Members are asked to consider whether they need to disclose any personal/prejudicial interests in matters appearing on the Agenda. If a Member of the County Council requires advice on declarations of interest, he/she is advised to contact Jill Anderson, Democratic Services (Tel 01772 532284) or Roy Jones, County Secretary and Solicitor’s Group (telephone 01772 533394), in advance of the meeting. Members of the City Council should take advice from officers in their own Authority in accordance with their agreed arrangements. Deposit copies of the papers for the meeting are available for inspection at Branch Libraries, Town Halls and County Information Centres in the District and also via the County Council’s website at www.lancashire.gov.uk. A copy of the agenda is also being circulated to the Clerks of all Parish, Town Councils and Parish Meetings in the District to afford the Chairs of those organisations the opportunity to attend if they wish. Yours faithfully I M Fisher County Secretary and Solicitor _______________________________________________________________________________ Paul Smith, Principal Lancashire Local Executive Support Officer, Lancashire Local Team, County Secretary and Solicitor’s Group, Office of the Chief Executive, Lancashire County Council , PO Box 78, County Hall, Preston, PR1 8XJ Page 2 Page 3 Lancashire Local – Lancaster District Tuesday, 19th January 2010 at 6.30 pm at the Town Hall, Lancaster. Agenda Part 1 (Open to Press and Public) 1. Apologies 2. Disclosure of Personal and Prejudicial Interests Members are asked to consider any Personal/Prejudicial Interests they may have to disclose to the meeting in relation to matters under consideration on the Agenda. 3. Minutes of the Meeting held on 1st December 2009 (Copy attached) Discharge of Delegated Powers 4. Lancashire Local Grant Applications (Report attached) 5. Proposed Residents Parking Scheme Regent Street, Brook Street and Dallas Road Areas, Lancaster District (Report attached) 6. Local Safety Scheme Ref No 1.214 Torrisholme Road, Morecambe Improvements to signs and road markings, new pedestrian refuge Report on public and statutory consultation (Report attached) 7. Proposed Disestablishment of School Crossing Patrol, (Point B18) Bowerham Community Primary School, Greaves Road, Lancaster, Lancaster District (Report attached) 8. Highway Capital Special Maintenance Programme 2010-2012 (Report attached) Other Issues for Consideration 9. The County Council's 2010/11 Revenue Budget and Capital Investment Strategy (Report attached) Page 4 10. Consultation on the Local Development Framework: Site Allocations and Development Management Policies (Report attached) 11. Developing a North Lancashire Area Commissioning Plan (Report attached) 12. Lancashire County Council's Young People's Service Proposed Arrangements Responding to Revised Constitution/Delegated Powers of Lancashire Locals (Report attached) 13. Allocation of Playbuilder Grant Funding in Lancashire 2010/11 (Report attached) 14. Lancashire Local Grant Applications Action Taken Under the Urgent Business Procedure by the County Secretary and Solicitor (Report attached) 15. Urgent Business An item of urgent business may only be considered under this heading where, by reason of special circumstances to be recorded in the Minutes, the Chair of the meeting is of the opinion that the item should be considered at the meeting as a matter of urgency. Wherever possible, the Secretary should be given advance warning of any Member’s intention to raise a matter under this heading. 16. Date of Next Meeting The next meeting will be held on Tuesday,16th March 2010 at 6.30 pm at Borwick Hall. I M Fisher County Secretary and Solicitor Cpunty Hall Preston Page 5 Lancashire Local – Lancaster District Meeting held on Tuesday 1st December 2009, at 6.30 pm at the White Cross Education Centre, Quarry Road, Lancaster. Minutes Present:- County Councillor Ken Brown (Chair) Lancashire County Council County Councillor Susie Charles County Councillor Chris Coates County Councillor Sarah Fishwick County Councillor Janice Hanson County Councillor Joan Jackson County Councillor Niki Penney County Councillor Sam Riches Lancaster City Council Councillor John Barnes Councillor Eileen Blamire Councillor Abbott Bryning* Councillor Roger Dennison* Councillor Tony Johnson Councillor David Kerr Councillor Ian McCulloch Councillor Joyce Pritchard Councillor Sylvia Rogerson* Councillor John Whitelegg * Councillor Abbott Bryning replaced Councillor Roger Sherlock for the meeting. * Councillor Roger Dennison replaced Councillor Bob Roe for the meeting. * Councillor Sylvia Rogerson replaced Councillor Malcolm Thomas for the meeting. Apologies were received from County Councillors Tony Jones and Albert Thornton. 20mph Zones The Chair informed the Local that a detailed report would be presented for consideration at the meeting in March 2010. Page 6 The reason for the delay was that the Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport and the Executive Director for the Environment were to visit Portsmouth at the end of November to see the schemes in operation there for themselves. Proposal to Introduce a 30mph Speed Limit in Quernmore, Lancaster Lancashire Local – Lancaster District were informed that following complaints by residents of Quernmore and the Parish Council, a proposal to introduce 30mph speed limits on various roads within the settlement was advertised in February 2008. It was reported that prior to advertising the proposals, there had been general agreement regarding the proposed locations for the terminal 30 mph signs on three of the roads affected, namely Wyresdale Road, Quernmore Brow and Rigg Lane. The preliminary proposal for Bay Horse Road was to position the sign 10 metres from the crossroads which would be in accordance with guidance for this type of road with very limited frontage development, but following consultation with the Police this point was moved to a distance 50 metres from the crossroads, the furthest that it could go to remain in compliance with national guidance. However, a Police Constable who did not have operational responsibility for speed enforcement did submit a report proposing that the 30 mph limit should be extended along Bay Horse Road to enable enforcement on a longer length of Bay Horse Road. The County Council’s Traffic Engineers were opposed to this major extension. It was further reported that following advertisement, two letters of objection were received which Lancashire Local - Lancaster District members considered at their meeting on 2 September 2008 and agreed "That, having considered the proposal to impose a 30 mph limit on lengths of Wyresdale Road, Quermore Brow, Rigg Lane and Bay Horse Road as identified in the report and shown on a plan accompanying the report, together with the objections received to the proposal and the comments of the County Council’s Executive Director of Environment, the proposed Scheme as described in the report and shown on the plan be not approved for implementation, but that option 2 of the alternative options described in the report be adopted (the extension of the 30 mph restriction a further 150 metres south along Bay Horse Road) for re-consultation with statutory consultees and re-advertised if agreed." Lancashire Local – Lancaster District were informed that the County Council's Traffic Engineers were opposed to this extension on the basis that it did not comply with national guidance or the County Council's own criteria for introducing a 30 mph speed limit. Lancashire Police had confirmed that they would not support an extension to the 30 mph limit on Bay Horse Road. Members of the Local were therefore advised that the original scheme as advertised should be approved. Page 7 Further consultations had taken place with the Police, who had confirmed their official view that there was no advantage or need to extend the 30 mph speed limit along Bay Horse Road beyond a point 50 metres from the crossroads, and that an extended 30mph limit along Bay Horse Road would not be enforced. Discussions had also taken place on site with the local member and representatives of the Parish Council and the Police. This resulted in a further written request by the Parish Council for the scheme to be reconsidered. After further correspondence, the Parish Council had now indicated their support for the introduction of a 30mph limit as originally proposed. 26. Resolved:- That the scheme for a 30 mph Speed Limit on the following lengths of road in Quernmore, Lancaster, as originally advertised, and set out in the report now presented and shown on the plan attached to the report be approved 1. Wyresdale Road from its junction with Bay Horse Road and Rigg Lane to a point 740m in a north westerly direction. 2. Quernmore Brow, from its junction with Bay Horse Road and Rigg Lane for a distance of 140m in a south easterly direction. 3. Rigg Lane, from its junction with Wyresdale Road and Quernmore Road for a distance of 256m in a northerly direction. 4. Bay Horse road, from its junction with Wyresdale road and Quernmore Brow, for a distance of 50m in a southerly direction. Public Participation The Chair explained that whilst Lancashire Local meetings were not public meetings, but business meetings to jointly deal with the business of the County Council in a public setting, it was the practice to facilitate public involvement before the transaction of formal business by the Members of the Lancashire Local by inviting comments/question on matters included on the agenda.