Report of the Director of the Built Environment.
Minutes:
The Committee received a report of the Director of the Built Environment that provided details of the working being conducted by the Street Environment Team to implement to the Obstruction Policy.
Members were advised that 124 obstructions have been removed from the City’s footways this year, with the majority of these removed voluntarily by the businesses once they were made aware of the policy. The programme of work being carried out by the Street Environment Team to ensure obstructions that contravened the policy were removed was expected to continue until April 2016.
The Comptroller and City Solicitor advised that sanctions were available under the Highways Act to prosecute any business who refused to remove an obstruction. In response to a Member’s question, he added that a person holding an advertising board were not considered obstructions under the Highways Act as it referred to static items.
RESOLVED – That the report be noted.
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