Issue - meetings

To give consideration to the work programme

Consideration was given to the Work programme. It was reported that the Department for Transport had recently announced that it had suspended the Major Schemes guidance and processing of new applications at least until the conclusion of the spending review in the autumn.  This meant that all preliminary and design work on the SEMMMs A6 to Manchester Airport Relief Road scheme had ceased for the foreseeable future.  The SEMMMs scheme was due to submit the Major Scheme Business Case to DFT in the Autumn to secure approval for £290m.   Following the announcement from DFT Cheshire East Council, Stockport MBC and Manchester City Council had all agreed that work should cease to develop the scheme further at this stage. The Committee therefore agreed to remove this issue from its work programme.

RESOLVED

That subject to the item ‘SEMMMS update’ being removed, the work programme be approved.