Decision Maker:

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: February 11, 2025

Purpose:

Content: Having been duly proposed and seconded, the Planning and Transport Policy Sub-Committee RESOLVED:   To approve the draft Local Transport Plan (LTP) (as provided in Appendix 1) for the purposes of public consultation in Spring 2025. As part of the decision the Committee was asked to provide comments that it felt would be necessary prior to consultation. Following consultation, the LTP would be redrafted taking into account relevant comments from the public and interested groups; any changes that had been introduced by national government; and the results of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) which would occur whilst consultation was underway. The final draft would be brought forward for approval in late Autumn 2025.     NB: The version before councillors was an unformatted and undesigned version. Once agreed, the attached Word version of the LTP would go for design with our Somerset Council designers – the designed version would be the version shared with the public.     There were no budgetary concerns with the decision as all consultation would be resourced internally and the SEA was funded through a specific Department of Transport grant awarded two years ago.