Issue - meetings

Councillor Roger Lawrence presented a report proposing the adoption of a single West Midlands Cycle Design Guidance, developed by national cycle design experts Phil Jones Associates.

Within the West Midlands Cycling Charter Action Plan 2016/17 there was a priority to develop a West Midlands based cycling design guidance to ensure consistency of high quality cycling design routes across the region. Local authority engineers had confirmed that the existing design guidance documents did not address the specific challenges of the region. The proposed design guidance contained 13 chapters on the principles of design for cycle provision based on best practice. It was proposed that the guidance would be a ‘living document’ that would be reviewed annually to ensure that the best practice contained within it was up to date.

Resolved:

(1)       The adoption of the West Midlands Cycle Design Guidance be approved.

(2)       It be agreed to continue to support a common approach to cycling across the West Midlands.