Issue - meetings

To consider and endorse, or make recommendations to the Cabinet Member for Planning, Highways, Transport & Waste, on:

(i)            the proposed works to renew and strengthen the A28 road surface between Birchington and Margate; and

(ii)          the delegation to the Corporate Director of Growth, Environment & Transport, under the Officer Scheme of Delegations, to take further or other decisions as may be appropriate to deliver the scheme in accordance with these recommendations

Alan Casson (Strategic Asset Manager, Highways, Transportation and Waste) was in attendance for this item.

1.    Mr A Casson introduced the report which outlined the proposals to proceed with urgent road maintenance work to renew and strengthen the road surface of the A28 in Thanet between Birchington and Margate. Funding of £2.5 million had been allocated in the 2019/20 Medium-Term Financial Plan to carry out the required work. The scheme would commence in April 2019 for around two months and would take place before the holiday season to avoid the peak holiday traffic.

(a)  In response to queries regarding the phasing of the work, Mr Casson said that work was being carried out to determine the stability of the road structure, however, the phasing of the scheme would require more detailed planning subject to approval from the Committee.

2.    RESOLVED that the proposed decision to:

(a)  renew and strengthen the A28 road surface between Birchington and Margate; and

(b)  delegate to the Corporate Director of Growth, Environment & Transport,

under the Officer Scheme of Delegations, to take further or other decisions as may

be appropriate to deliver the scheme in accordance with these recommendations,

be endorsed.