Decision - North Street Mixed Priority Route (MPR) - Clock Tower junction/ North Street Quadrant

(1)       That the Cabinet Member for Environment approves The Brighton & Hove (Dyke Road, North Street & Western Road Bus Priority) (Traffic Regulation) Order 2004 Amendment Order No. * 200*.

(2)       That the Cabinet Member for Environment approves the preferred scheme for the Clock Tower junction/North Street Quadrant scheme as detailed in Appendices A1 and A2.

(3)       That the Cabinet Member for Environment agrees that officer delegated powers to issue highway licenses for table and chairs and Advertising Boards are revoked within the area delimited within the green line shown in Appendices in A1 and A2, in order to more effectively control street furniture at the North Street Quadrant to prevent obstruction to pedestrians, especially those people who are disabled.

(4)       That the Cabinet Member for Environment authorises the Director of Environment to begin implementation of the preferred scheme during 2008/09 and ensure its completion during 2009/10, within the budgets available.

To seek approval of the preferred schemes and implementation of the improvements to the Clock Tower junction/North Street Quadrant 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.