1. That approval be given to the following revised scheme objectives for the Congleton transport infrastructure study:
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To support the economic, physical and social regeneration of Congleton by creating and securing jobs |
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To open up new development sites and improve access to Radnor Park Industrial Estate and Congleton Business Park |
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To relieve existing town centre traffic congestion / HGVs, remove traffic from less desirable roads and facilitate town centre regeneration |
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To improve strategic transport linkages across the Borough facilitating wider economic and transport benefit |
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To reduce community severance along key town centre corridors |
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To reduce traffic related pollutants within the towns declared Air Quality Management Areas |
2. That the following solutions be taken forward to the second stage of detailed assessment to address the objectives of the study:
· Online improvements and widening of A34 Rood Hill, Clayton By-Pass, West Road and Holmes Chapel Road and junction improvements
· Isolated junction improvements to either A34 Rood Hill/A54 Rood Hill (signals), A34 Clayton Bypass/West Road/West Street (Rbt) or A34 West Road/A54 Holmes Chapel Road/A534 Sandbach Rd / A34 Newcastle Road (rbt)
· Network Management measures such as traffic signal optimisation
· Strategic signing strategy
· Traffic Management Strategy / Local signing strategy
· ‘Partial’ Link Road connecting A534/A54 to Viking Way
· ‘Partial’ Link Road connecting Viking Way to the A536 Macclesfield Road
· Link Road connecting A534 Sandbach Road to A536 Macclesfield Road