(a)

Councillors Ricketts, Mrs Pengelly and Ball had called the decision in for the following reasons -

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the decision maker failed to consider alternative course of action; the action should be no action;

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the decision taker failed to take into account relevant factors;

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the call-in was in relation to the no-turn sign into Restormel Road on Sutherland Road; the cost estimates for the works on Restormel Road and Maple Grove for the cost of footway widening, dropped kerbs, related resurfacing and tactiles and so on was approximately £73,000; the cost of the necessary resurfacing works in this area was expected to be approximately £23,000;

this no-turn would cause gridlock on the Houndiscombe Road/North Road East traffic lights; the junction was already gridlocked at the various points in the day and this would only make it worse.  The extra university outlets on the campus had caused extra pressure on the road junction; people could also use the back road of Sutherland Road and Restormel Road and this would create many traffic/safety issues;

this proposal needed to be removed from the decision.

(b)

Councillors Ricketts and Ball considered that –

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the cost of the scheme on the council tax payers of Plymouth (approximately £100,000);

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the proposed no left turn into Restormel Road would cause gridlock in the area;

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the additional outlets on the university campus had created further pressure on the highway network in this vicinity;

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the scheme had been approved based on the results of the survey (1500 leaflets had been distributed with only 110 responses being received);

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the creation of a one-way system for Restormel Road would not make it safer for pedestrians or cyclists to use;

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a similar scheme had been sought on a narrow/restricted road in the Compton Ward but this had been refused by the highways authority which was considered to be a contradiction in policy;

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members of the public were not comfortable with the removal of parking spaces (six in total) and instead considered that the money could be spent on resurfacing roads and clearing drains.

(c)

the Leader of the Council (Tudor Evans), the Cabinet Member for Safer and Stronger Communities (Philippa Davey) Phil Heseltine (Head of Transport, Infrastructure and Investment), Robin Pearce (Smarter Choices Manager) and Jim Woffenden (Transport Planning Officer) responded with the following main points -

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the proposed scheme to improve walking and cycling in this area had been funded through two successful bids to the Department of Transport which had secured £885,000 from central government; the Council provided match funding in the sum of £559,000;

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the proposed scheme included improvements for the safety of both pedestrians and cyclists being put at risk  (there had been  ...  view the full minutes text for item 79.