Agenda item

The Commissioning Director, Environment, introduced the item which related to Highways Progress update on Finchley and Golders Green Area Committee actions.

The Committee considered each recommendation in turn:

·         Recommendations 1-3: The Committee noted the update and actions set out in Appendix 1 to the report. .

·         Recommendation 4: Councillor Cooke stated that he was dissatisfied with the officers’ response and – given the fatal incident that happened at the junction of Buxted Road and Ashurst Road– urged that officers to reassess the response. He stated that he did not believe installing yellow lines and additional signage would adequately improve the situation or address the issues previously considered by the Committee. The Committee made further comments relating to the safety issues at this junction.

Councillor Graham Old then moved a motion to reword the recommendation so that it read:

o   In the matter of Buxted Road/Ashurst Road: That the Committee agree – subject to consultation with ward members – to fund the yellow lines at the junction of Buxted Road and Ashurst Road, N12 at a cost of £2,500 from the Area Committee (CIL) Budget, and that a future report will be brought back to a future meeting concerning the use of traffic islands and any other potential traffic calming/safety measures that can be used to address the issue.

The motion was duly seconded and unanimously agreed by the Committee. The recommendation, as amended, was then unanimously agreed.

·         Recommendation 5: Councillor Zinkin commented that the issue was yet to be fully resolved, and subsequently moved a motion to alter the wording of the recommendation so that it read:         

o   In the matter of Bute Mews, NW11, further consideration be given as to how to address the issue of Bute Mews, and that an update be brought to a future meeting of the committee concerning this.

The motion was duly seconded and unanimously agreed by the Committee. The recommendation, as amended, was then unanimously agreed.

The following was therefore RESOLVED:

1.    That the Committee noted the update and actions set out in Appendix 1 of the report.

2.    In the matter of Lodge Lane, N12 that the Committee noted the update in the report.

3.    In the matter of double yellow lines on Horton Avenue, NW2 that the Committee agreed to fund the double yellow lines around the mini-roundabout on Horton Avenue, NW2, at a cost of £2,000 from the Area Committee (CIL) budget.

4.    In the matter of Buxted Road/Ashurst Road that the Committee agreed – subject to consultation with ward members – to fund the yellow lines at the junction of Buxted Road and Ashurst Road, N12 at a cost of £2,500 from the Area Committee (CIL) Budget, and noted that a report will be brought back to a future meeting concerning the use of traffic islands and any other potential traffic calming/safety measures that can be used to address the issue.

5.    In the matter of Bute Mews, NW11, that further consideration will be given as to how to address the issue of Bute Mews, and that an update will be brought to a future meeting of the committee concerning this.