Decision details

Cabinet considered a report on the delivery of walking and cycling schemes in Wilmslow and Crewe, details of which were set out in the report.

RESOLVED

That Cabinet

1.    approves the delivery of the A530 scheme in Crewe and the Wilmslow Strategic Walking and Cycling Scheme through the Highway Service Contract, subject to £1.6m of Local Growth Funding being received from Cheshire and Warrington Enterprise Partnership and that Ringway Jacobs’ target costs for the schemes satisfy the Council’s best value requirements;

2.    authorises the Director of Highways and Infrastructure, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder with responsibility for Strategic Transport and the Portfolio Holder for Highways and Waste, to take all necessary actions to implement the two schemes; and

3.    approves the preparation of a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) in respect of land and/or rights required to deliver the A530 Scheme, where such land and/or rights cannot be acquired by agreement; and that in the event that a CPO is required, Cabinet authority to make the Order be sought at that stage.