Agenda and minutes

37.1     The Lead Member approved as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 21 January 2019. 

Disclosure by all Members present of personal interests in matters on the agenda, the nature of any interest and whether the Members regard the interest as prejudicial under the terms of the Code of Conduct.

38.1     Councillor Claire Dowling declared a personal interest in item 5, in that she is the Chair of the Uckfield Town Centre Highway Improvement Scheme Project Board, but did not consider this to be prejudicial. 

39.1     Reports referred to in the minutes below are contained in the minute book.

Report by the Director of Communities, Economy and Transport

40.1     The Lead Member considered a report by the Director of Communities, Economy and Transport.

DECISIONS

40.2     The Lead Member RESOLVED to (1) recommend County Council reject the motion submitted by Councillors Rodohan and Swansborough; and

(2) advise all County Councillors that the County Council has a maintenance programme for pavements and that any concerns about the condition of any roads or pavements in their divisions should be reported to their respective Highway Steward.

Reasons

40.3     The County Council adopts an Asset Management approach to the maintenance of roads and pavements as advocated by the Department for Transport.  In doing so, maintenance is informed by an Asset Plan that prioritises maintenance on the basis of need and risk across the county. 

40.4     The County Council’s Asset Plan is informed by Highway Steward routine inspections as well as reports received from Councillors and members of the public.  In determining maintenance requirements the County Council publishes intervention criteria that define maintenance triggers. 

Report by the Director of Communities, Economy and Transport

41.1     The Lead Member considered a report by the Director of Communities, Economy and Transport.

DECISIONS

41.2     The Lead Member RESOLVED to approve the inclusion of 3 on-street time-limited parking spaces, on the eastern side of the High Street south of Bell Lane, into the trial of the new parking controls in the High Street by way of an Experimental Traffic Regulation Order.

Reasons

41.3     The 23 on-street time-limited parking spaces associated with Stage 2 of the High Street improvements have a waiting period of 30 minutes, for which the Lead Member has approved the trial of the new parking controls by way of  an Experimental Traffic Regulation Order. The 3 on-street time-limited parking spaces on the eastern side of the High Street south of Bell Lane associated with Stage 1 of the High Street improvements have a waiting period of 60 minutes. If these spaces are not included in the trial it will be confusing to drivers as there will be two different waiting periods in close proximity of one another.