Notes from yesterday's Copeland local committee
The Copeland local committee of Cumbria County Council met yesterday at Cleator Moor.
More detail to follow on some of these points but the meeting included
1) A very interesting and positive presentation from the deputy head of Millom School about access to higher education and how the school has used a grant from the local committee.
2) Update on the Terms of Reference: under this item a previous decision to co-opt the elected mayor of Copeland, Mike Starkie as a non-voting member of the committee was confirmed and it was agreed that we will also invite the deputy mayor, Cllr David Moore and the new chairman of the Copeland branch of CALC (Cumbria Association of Local Councils, which represents Parish and Town Councils in the county) Cllr Andy Pratt. to attend.
3) Consultation on the A595 and proposed Whitehaven Relief Road - a very useful discussion on what should be fed into the County Council's response to this Highways England consultation, of which more anon.
4) Whitehaven Traffic Regulation Orders - a number of changes to parking restrictions which have been the subject of public consultation were approved.
5) Moresby Parks traffic calming - measures which have been the subject of public consultation and to which all the responses were positive were approved.
6) Delegated highways budget. Cumbria has been given £12 million pounds by the government to spend by the end of March on urgent highways repairs and improvement. Some of this will be spent centrally and some by the six local committees, and of that latter part over £800,000 is coming to Copeland.
This will not fix every pothole or bad road in Copeland - that would take more like £16 million and we would not have the capacity to get it all done by the end of March anyway - but it will get an awful lot of the worst potholes fixed and mean that several really bad stretches of road which would otherwise have had to wait until 2020 or 2021 to be fixed can now be done this winter. We had an initial discussion about possible targets for where this should be spent.
More detail to follow on some of these points but the meeting included
1) A very interesting and positive presentation from the deputy head of Millom School about access to higher education and how the school has used a grant from the local committee.
2) Update on the Terms of Reference: under this item a previous decision to co-opt the elected mayor of Copeland, Mike Starkie as a non-voting member of the committee was confirmed and it was agreed that we will also invite the deputy mayor, Cllr David Moore and the new chairman of the Copeland branch of CALC (Cumbria Association of Local Councils, which represents Parish and Town Councils in the county) Cllr Andy Pratt. to attend.
3) Consultation on the A595 and proposed Whitehaven Relief Road - a very useful discussion on what should be fed into the County Council's response to this Highways England consultation, of which more anon.
4) Whitehaven Traffic Regulation Orders - a number of changes to parking restrictions which have been the subject of public consultation were approved.
5) Moresby Parks traffic calming - measures which have been the subject of public consultation and to which all the responses were positive were approved.
6) Delegated highways budget. Cumbria has been given £12 million pounds by the government to spend by the end of March on urgent highways repairs and improvement. Some of this will be spent centrally and some by the six local committees, and of that latter part over £800,000 is coming to Copeland.
This will not fix every pothole or bad road in Copeland - that would take more like £16 million and we would not have the capacity to get it all done by the end of March anyway - but it will get an awful lot of the worst potholes fixed and mean that several really bad stretches of road which would otherwise have had to wait until 2020 or 2021 to be fixed can now be done this winter. We had an initial discussion about possible targets for where this should be spent.
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