Decision - North Street Mixed Priority Route (MPR) - Ship Street Traffic Regulation Order

(1)       That the Cabinet Member for Environment approves the Brighton & Hove (Ship Street) (One- Way traffic) Order 200*, the Brighton & Hove (Waiting & Loading/Unloading restrictions and parking places) Consolidation Order 2008 Amendment Order No.* 200*, the Brighton & Hove Various Controlled Parking Zones Consolidation Order 2008 Amendment Order No.* 200*.

(2)       That the Cabinet Member for Environment approves the preferred scheme for Ship Street as detailed in the Appendix A and authorises the Director of Environment to start   implementation of the preferred scheme during 2008/09 and to complete it during 2009/10, within the budgets available.

To seek approval of the preferred schemes and implementation of the improvements to Ship Street and to approve the advertised traffic orders to enable implementation of the scheme, given that objections have been received cannot be upheld.

The primary objective for the North Street Mixed Priority Route is to address the particular road safety problems that have resulted in casualties to people and therefore casualty data has been taken into account in designing appropriate engineering measures.  Options were considered as part of public consultation and approval for the outline preferred scheme was given at July 2008 Environment CMM.