Copeland Highways Working Group

There is a meeting tomorrow (4th December 2017) of the Copeland Highways Working Group of Cumbria County Council's local committee for Copeland.

The agenda includes the proposed action on the A595 at Moresby, the North Shore scheme in Whitehaven, a review of recent parking decisions, the devolved highways budget and the area highways manager's regular report.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Ignoring the Whitehaven Campus transport plan then.
Chris Whiteside said…
I imagine it is likely that the travel plan for Campus Whitehaven will be looked at in good time by the Highways Working group before the campus opens to students in September next year.
Anonymous said…
Not before it's approved then.
Chris Whiteside said…
I've not seen the details of the plan. I would not expect it to come to Highways Working Group of the local committee until there was enough detail to be worth discussing.
Chris Whiteside said…
It, is not, incidentally, the role of the Highways Working Group to either prepare or approve the travel plan.

The former is the role of the applicants (e.g. the schools involved and the Education side of CCC) and the latter is down to the planning authority (Copeland BC).
Anonymous said…
The Applicant, is Cumbria CC, the planning authority is Cumbria CC, the highway authority is Cumbria CC, and the Copeland Highways Working group hasn't looked at it. Then you wonder why everything in Copeland is a shambles.
Chris Whiteside said…

1) Yes, the applicant was Cumbria County Council.

2) The planning authority in Whitehaven is Copeland Borough Council. The application for Campus Whitehaven went to the Copeland BC planning panel in January 2017 as well as the County planning panel in March. Here is the URL for the Copeland Planning Panel committee report.

http://copeland.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s3805/Application%204c.pdf

3) The Highways authority is Cumbria CC for many roads in Cumbria - but not all - some are managed by Highways England, for example.

4) It is the responsibility of the applicants, e.g. the education department of the county council, to prepare the travel plan, and the responsibility of the planning authorities to sign it off.

5) Yes, it is silly that the planning authority rather than the highways authority signs off travel plans, but that is a general problem with the country's current two-tier system of local government and applies in every part of England where there are county and district councils, not just in Copeland.

6) There is a case, in my opinion, for the Highways Working Group to have the opportunity to comment on the proposed travel plans for the site but there is no point doing that until there is a draft plan to discuss.
Chris Whiteside said…
I'm not accepting any more anonymous comments on this thread. If you have anything constructive to add. sign your name or nickname.

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