Infrastructure and Development Select Committee Date: 29 January 2020 Time: 10am Venue: Edwards Room, County Hall, Norwich Persons attending the meeting are requested to turn off mobile phones. Membership: Cllr Barry Stone (Chairman) Cllr Graham Middleton (Vice-Chairman) Cllr Stuart Clancy Cllr Beverley Spratt Cllr Jess Barnard Cllr Vic Thomson Cllr Claire Bowes Cllr Colleen Walker (Spokes) Cllr Tim East Cllr Brian Watkins (Spokes) Cllr Brian Iles Cllr Tony White Cllr Mark Kiddle-Morris For further details and general enquiries about this Agenda please contact the Committee Officer: Julie Mortimer on 01603 223053 or email [email protected] Under the Council’s protocol on the use of media equipment at meetings held in public, this meeting may be filmed, recorded or photographed. Anyone who wishes to do so must inform the Chairman and ensure that it is done in a manner clearly visible to anyone present. The wishes of any individual not to be recorded or filmed must be appropriately respected. 1 Infrastructure and Development 29 January 2020 A g e n d a 1 To receive apologies and details of any substitute members attending 2 Minutes Page 5 To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 13 November 2019. 3 Members to Declare any Interests If you have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter to be considered at the meeting and that interest is on your Register of Interests you must not speak or vote on the matter. If you have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter to be considered at the meeting and that interest is not on your Register of Interests you must declare that interest at the meeting and not speak or vote on the matter In either case you may remain in the room where the meeting is taking place. If you consider that it would be inappropriate in the circumstances to remain in the room, you may leave the room while the matter is dealt with. If you do not have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest you may nevertheless have an Other Interest in a matter to be discussed if it affects, to a greater extent than others in your division • Your wellbeing or financial position, or • that of your family or close friends • Any body - o Exercising functions of a public nature. o Directed to charitable purposes; or o One of whose principal purposes includes the influence of public opinion or policy (including any political party or trade union); Of which you are in a position of general control or management. If that is the case then you must declare such an interest but can speak and vote on the matter. 4 To receive any items of business which the Chairman decides should be considered as a matter of urgency 5 Public Question Time ` Fifteen minutes for questions from members of the public of which due notice has been given. Please note that all questions must be received by the Committee Team ([email protected]) by 5pm Friday 24 January 2020. For guidance on submitting a public question please visit www.norfolk.gov.uk/what-we-do-and-how-we-work/councillors- 2 Infrastructure and Development 29 January 2020 meetingsdecisions-and-elections/committees-agendas-and-recent- decisions/ask-aquestion- to-a-committee 6 Local Member Issues/Questions Fifteen minutes for local member to raise issues of concern of which due notice has been given. Please note that all questions must be received by the Committee Team ([email protected]) by 5pm Friday 24 January 2020 7 Update from Local Transport Plan Member Task and Finish Group Page 19 Report by the Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services 8 Holding Highways England to Account Page 43 Report by the Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services. 9 King’s Lynn Transport Strategy and Implementation Plan Page 51 Report by the Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services 10 Norfolk Rail Prospectus Page 208 Report by the Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services. 11 Market Town Transport Network Improvement Strategies Page 212 Report by the Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services 12 Norfolk Library Strategy Page 227 Report by the Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services. 13 Forward Work Plan Page 234 Report by the Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services Group Meetings: Conservative 9:00am Conservative Group Room, Ground Floor Labour 9:00am Labour Group Room, Ground Floor Liberal Democrats 9:00am Liberal Democrats Group Room, Ground Floor Chris Walton Head of Democratic Services County Hall Martineau Lane Norwich NR1 2DH Date Agenda Published: 21 January 2020 3 Infrastructure and Development 29 January 2020 If you need this document in large print, audio, Braille, alternative format or in a different language please contact 0344 800 8020 or (textphone) 18001 0344 800 8020 and we will do our best to help. 4 Infrastructure and Development Select Committee Minutes of the Meeting Held on Wednesday 13 November 2019 10am, Edwards Room, County Hall, Norwich Present: Cllr Barry Stone – Chairman Cllr Jess Barnard Cllr Brian Iles Cllr Claire Bowes Cllr Mark Kiddle-Morris Cllr Penny Carpenter Cllr Graham Middleton (Vice-Chairman) Cllr Danny Douglas Cllr Beverley Spratt Cllr Phillip Duigan Cllr Brian Watkins Cllr Tim East Also Present: Cllr Alexandra Kemp Officers Present: Tom McCabe Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services Grahame Bygrave Assistant Director – Highways and Waste John Jones Head of Environment Sophie Leney Head of Trading Standards Sarah Rhoden Head of Support and Development, CES Denise Saadvandi Head of Service Adult Learning Ceri Sumner Assistant Director, Community, Information and Learning Kevin Townly Asset and Capital Programme Manager Matt Tracey Growth & Infrastructure Group Manager 1. Apologies and substitutions 1.1 Apologies were received from Cllr Tony White (Cllr Phillip Duigan substituted); Cllr Colleen Walker (Cllr Danny Douglas substituted); Cllr Vic Thomson (Cllr Penny Carpenter substituting) and Cllr Martin Wilby, Cabinet Member for Highways, Infrastructure & Transport. 2. To agree the minutes of the meeting held on 11 September 2019 2.1 The minutes of the meeting held on 11 September 2019 were agreed as a correct record and signed by the Chairman. 2.2 Cllr Bev Spratt thanked the Chairman for allowing him to ask a question about the Mildenhall roundabout at the last meeting and reported that his request was being actioned. 5 3. Declarations of Interest 3.1 Cllr Tim East declared an interest in agenda item 10 (CES Enforcement Policy) as he was in receipt of a Blue Badge disabled parking permit. 4. Items of Urgent Business 4.1 There were no items of urgent business. 5. Public Question Time 5.1 No public questions were received. 6. Local Member Issues / Questions 6.1 One Local Member question was received and answered which is attached at Appendix A. 7. Transport Asset Management Plan (TAMP) 2020/21 – 2024/25 7.1 The Select Committee received the report by the Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services setting out the details of the annual update to Norfolk County Council’s Transport Asset Management Policy. The Select Committee was asked to review and comment on the latest revision to the Transport Asset Management Plan. 7.2 The following points were noted in response to questions from the Committee: 7.2.1 Members welcomed the document and found the track changes helpful in identifying the amendments. 7.2.2 The Assistant Director, Highways & Waste highlighted that the report would be presented to Cabinet at its meeting in January 2020 for final approval, after which it would be finalised and published. 7.2.3 The percentage figures relating to bridges were very complex and any Member wishing for further information should contact the Asset & Capital Programme Manager who would be able to provide a detailed explanation. 7.2.4 The self-assessment of ‘level 3’ in the Department for Transport (DfT) incentive fund would secure the maximum level of funding. The DfT had a set criterion and the self-assessment had been evidenced to show the document was live and kept updated, with the Section 151 Officer being responsible for final sign-off prior to its submission to DfT. The recent Peer Review had confirmed that Norfolk County Council was at ‘level 3’. 7.2.5 The Highways Capital Programme 2020/21/22 Report to be presented to the January 2020 Cabinet meeting would include details of the highways improvements programme which covered road safety schemes. Together with the Parish Partnership Scheme report in March 2020, the reports would include details about the casualty reduction programme. The TAMP document detailed how the assets were managed. 6 7.2.6 Any Councillor who wanted to follow up issues regarding speeding or wanted to help reduce speeding in their divisions could raise them through the Safety Camera Partnership. 7.2.7 The Assistant Director - Highways and Waste confirmed that work was being undertaken with other authorities to ascertain the best ways to use recycled materials to increase the robustness of surface dressing and resurfacing of roads, although the environmental implications were still being tested. It was also confirmed that Norfolk County Council used non-toxic materials. 7.2.8 With approximately 20% of journeys undertaken on foot, the Select Committees’ comments that highway assets should be of benefit to everyone, including pedestrians and cyclists, would be fed into future consultation documents. 7.2.9 Norfolk County Council worked closely with bus companies to ensure information about road closures due to utility works, was passed on to try to minimise the impact on bus timetables and ensure sufficient information was available so they could plan routes and alternative timetables. 7.2.10 Regarding Department for Transport funding, it was clarified that the Government’s accounting rules had changed and that pot hole repairs were now classified as capital funding.