Agenda item

Air Quality Feasibility Study

Minutes:

The Executive was reminded that, at its meeting on 3October 2017, it had received a report on the Air Quality Feasibility Study which this Council, Rushmoor and Guildford Borough Councils were required to undertake along the A331 Blackwater Valley Road. The study would explore a range of options to ensure compliance with air quality objectives in the shortest time possible.

 

The Government had initially allocated £50,000 to each of the authorities. However following submission of a proposal from the partner authorities, a further grant payment of £600,000 would be paid to this Council, which was leading on the procurement for the study.  The study would be carried out in conjunction with Guildford and Rushmoor Councils and working with Defra; the Highways Agency and Surrey County Council Highways Authority.

 

RESOLVED to undertake a feasibility study to explore a range of measures to ensure compliance with the air quality objectives in the shortest time possible, with the cost of the study to be funded from a grant of £600,000 paid to this Council under Section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003.

 

(Note: It was noted for the record that Councillor Rodney Bates declared that he was an employee of Guildford Borough Council.)

 

 

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