31 ROWIP 2 Liverpool City Region Combined Rights of Way Improvement Plan. PDF 307 KB
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Minutes:
The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, Enterprise, Community and Resources, which provided information on the Liverpool City Region (LCR) joint Rights of Way Improvement Plan (ROWIP), a copy of which had been forwarded to Members for comment. Halton had produced its first statutory Public Rights of Way Improvement Plan in 2009. With the creation of the LCR joint ROWIP each authority had identified the successes of previous individual ROWIP whilst combining the ambitions of each member authority looking to the future.
Members
noted that the ROWIP was a
statutory document which dealt specifically with Rights of Way and traffic free
corridors. The document was designed to give a forward looking vision as to how
they would be used, promoted and upgraded over the next decade. The Plan aimed
to bring Rights of Way in line with all other Highways and include them in the
LCR’s overall commitment to promote and encourage sustainable travel. It was
not intended as a comprehensive guide to all future maintenance and capital
schemes. Instead Halton would bring forward schemes
which would then be evaluated. It was the ambition of the LCR to ensure that
ROWIP enhancements were linked into the mainstream delivery of a range of
schemes. At present, such committed schemes being taken forward through this
programme were:
· Bridgewater Canal Pedestrian and Cycle Improvements
· Runcorn East Rail Station Access Improvements
· Jaguar Land Rover JLR-3MG Cycle Corridor
· A56 Sustainable Links to Sci-Tech Daresbury
· Astmoor Business Hub Corridor
One of the many
advantages of a joint ROWIP approach was the ability to coordinate funding bids
toward common goals as well as working together to create successful, user
friendly cross boundary links. It was hoped that this approach would progress
economic and socio-economic targets (for example, walking and cycling
strategies) whilst improving transport links and opening up sustainable travel
choices across the region.
RESOLVED: That the Board supports
the Rights of Way Improvement Plan and recommends that the Executive Board
formally endorses it.