Equality Impact Assessment Toolkit
(January 2021)
Section 1:
Your details
EIA Lead Officer: Lee Bailey
Email address:
xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx.xx
Head of Section: Graham Roe – Interim Design & Commissioning Senior Manager
Chief Officer:
Simon Fox – AD Highways and Infrastructure
Directorate:
Neighbourhood Services
Date:
October 2021
Section 2:
What Council proposal is being assessed?
Enhancement of an existing cycle lane on Bayswater Road / Harrison Drive
The proposals include:
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Instal ation of ‘Wand Orca’ type bollards along the route.
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Additional white lining and ‘buff’ coloured surface treatment.
•
Traffic Regulation Orders (Double Yellow Lines).
•
Bus-Stop boarder footway build-outs.
Section 2a:
Will this EIA be submitted to a Committee meeting? No, not at this
stage (subject to public consultation outcomes).
If ‘yes’ please state which meeting and what date
n/a
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Hyperlink to where your EIA is/will be published on the Council’s website
https://www.wirral.gov.uk/communities-and-neighbourhoods/equality-impact-assessments
Section 3:
Does the proposal have the potential to affect…… (please tick
relevant boxes)
Services
The workforce
x
Communities
Other (please state eg: Partners, Private Sector, Voluntary & Community Sector)
If you have ticked one or more of above, please go to section 4.
None (please stop here and email this form to your Chief Officer who needs to
email it to xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx.xx for publishing)
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Section 4:
Could the proposal have a positive or negative impact on any protected groups (age; disability; gender
reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion or belief; sex; sexual
orientation)?
You may also want to consider socio-economic status of individuals.
Please list in the table below and include actions required to mitigate any potential negative impact.
Which
Potential positive or
Action required to mitigate any potential
Lead person
Timescale
Resource
group(s) of
negative impact
negative impact
implications
people could
be affected
Positive – the proposals
n/a
L. Bailey
n/a
Staff
Disability/Age/
wil enable a safer space
Resource
Al
for cycling and provide
physical protection for
cyclists from vehicular
traffic.
Disability/Age/
Negative – at certain
Ensure that the proposals are designed in
L. Bailey
n/a
Staff
Al
points along the scheme
compliance with design guidance and
Resource
pedestrians may find the
regulations such as TSRGD & LTN/120.
footway layout confusing
Ensure any potential conflict between
(specifically at bus stops).
pedestrians and cyclists are minimised by
keeping the two separate – cyclists on
carriageway, pedestrians on footways. Where
pedestrians and cyclists must merge, i.e. at
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bus stop crossings, provide additional signing
and road markings in line with DfT design
advice if required. Additional signing and
warning paving if required. Carry out Road
Safety Audit and relevant risk assessments.
Disability/Age/ Positive – Bus stop build-
n/a
L. Bailey
n/a
Staff
Al
outs wil prevent cyclists
Resources
from having to navigate
around buses into live
traffic at bus stop
locations. Cyclists and
motorised vehicles are
kept segregated.
Al
Negative – the “Wand
Ensure all units have black and white strips,
L. Bailey
n/a
Staff
Orca” segregation units
have reflective strips across the bollards and
Resource
may cause pedestrians to
are set back from formal signalised pedestrian
trip over if not visible.
crossing points. Wand Orcas wil only be
provided along the carriageway and not on the
footway. Where on the carriageway the units
wil be sat between 150mm wide white lining.
Outside line solid, inside line intermittent
between wands. There are formal signal
control ed pedestrian crossing points along the
route – no Wand Orcas wil be laid across
these.
Al
Positive - Additional white
n/a
L. Bailey
n/a
Staff
lining wil improve the
Resources
visibility of the cycle lane
for cyclists, pedestrians
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and road users.
Al
Positive – The ‘buff’
n/a
L. Bailey
n/a
Staff
coloured surface treatment
Resources
provides extra grip for
cyclists and wil improve
the visibility of the cycle
lane at key points along
the route. e.g. at the
beginning & end of cycle
lane sections and prior to
signal control ed
pedestrian crossings and
junctions.
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Section 4a:
Where and how will the above actions be monitored?
Works to be checked on completion. Wand Orca effectiveness to be monitored via user
feedback and site observations. Further Safety Audits to be carried out once the cycle lane is
operational.
Section 4b: If you think there is no negative impact, what is your reasoning
behind this?
n/a
Section 5:
What research / data / information have you used in support of this
process?
TSRGD 2016, LTN 1/20, Gear Change, Road Safety Audit combined stage 1 & 2, Traffic
Modelling, Manufacturers/Suppliers trade literature.
Section 6:
Are you intending to carry out any consultation with regard to this
Council proposal?
No
If ‘yes’ please continue to section 7.
If ‘no’ please state your reason(s) why:
(please stop here and email this form to your Chief Officer who needs to email it to
xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx.xx for publishing)
Section 7:
How will consultation take place and by when?
A public consultation exercise is to be carried out shortly – stakeholders, elected members,
internal departments of WBC, and local residents wil be consulted in the near future.
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Before you complete your consultation, please email your preliminary EIA to
xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx.xx via your Chief Officer in order for the Council to ensure it is meeting
it’s legal publishing requirements. The EIA wil need to be published with a note saying we
are awaiting outcomes from a consultation exercise.
Once you have completed your consultation, please review your actions in section 4. Then
email this form to your Chief Officer who needs to email it to xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx.xx for
publishing.
Section 8:
Have you remembered to:
a)
Select appropriate directorate hyperlink to where your EIA is/will be
published (section 2a)
b)
Include any potential positive impacts as well as negative impacts? (section 4)
c)
Send this EIA to xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx.xx via your Chief Officer?
d)
Review section 4 once consultation has taken place and sent your updated EIA
to xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx.xx via your Chief Officer for re-publishing?
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