Decision details

Redditch Borough Council’s response to the Worcestershire Waste Core Stategy is supportive of the content put forward in the document and would encourage the location of waste management facilities in the Borough at any of the sites suggested in the document.

Redditch Borough and Bromsgrove Distict Council’s response to the Worcestershire Local Transport Plan No 3 is supportive of the content put forward in the document and raises a number of questions for the County Council to consider when developing the emerging draft plan.

RECOMMENDED that

1)                 the response prepared to the Worcestershire Waste Core Strategy, as detailed in the Appendix to the report, be endorsed; and

2)                 the response to the Worcestershire Local Transport Plan No. 3, as detailed in the Appendix to the report, be endorsed subject to an amendment in respect of Paragraph 4.2 (iii) of the report regarding the potential opening of bus lanes to other traffic. 

(Members were opposed to any such move and asked Officers to liaise with Councillors Gandy and Debbie Taylor regarding amendment to the wording to reflect the Council’s wishes in this respect.)