Combined Active Travel Network
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Dear Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council,
Can you please advise which organisations have been contacted to seek their views following the launch of the 'consultation' on the Combined Active Travel Network, including charities such as the RNIB and NFBUK.
For the route at Fender Lane, a legally-required Equality Impact Assessment was carried out by the Council and recognised the disruption it would cause to road users, stating ‘Journey times of all users will increase as a result of the introduction of a cycle lane/loss of one lane for vehicular traffic.’
At what stage will Equality Impact Assessments be carried out for CATN routes 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20?
Kind regards
Cllr. Ian Lewis
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Dear Councillor Lewis
FOI 1689546
Thank you for your freedom of information request, please do accept the
Councils apologies for the delay in response.
Wirral Council’s Strategic Transport service can advise as follows
regarding the Core Active Travel Network (CATN) consultation: that we have
included a variety of stakeholders due to the borough-wide nature of the
project. We are unable to share our database due to individual email
addresses and names being included however contact has been made with;
· Wirral Active Travel Forum members have been consulted via email
and prior to the consultation commencing, which includes a local
representative from the Royal National Institute of Blind People RNIB –
members of this group were asked to share the information widely within
their organisations. This group includes members of the Liverpool City
Region, Sustrans, Living Streets, Older Persons Parliament, National
Highways, Unilever, Peel, Merseyside Cycling Campaign as well as local
residents.
· The Wirral Active Travel Members Working Group and all Wirral
Elected Members have been consulted – it is expected that Members also
share information across their networks
· As well as engaging RNIB via the Active travel Forum, via
separate email we have contacted both the local contact and national
office of the RNIB;
· We have reached out to the NFBUK’s central office for a local
contact;
· Businesses – details of the survey and a link to engage was
circulated in a Wirral Chamber / Business Support Service newsletter
· Young people – a link to engage was added to the Zillo website
for young people to access
· E-mail sent to Wirral Pedestrian Association, Tomorrow's Women
Wirral, Cycling Projects, Energy Project Plus, Walk and Cycle Merseyside,
North Wirral Velo, Portlight Sunlight Wheelers, Wirral Cycling, WUTH,
Network Rail, Merseyside Police, North West Ambulance Service, Merseyside
Fire Service, Cycling UK, Scottish Power Energy Networks, Ion, West Kirby
Transition Town.
· 3 Members of Parliament for Wirral
· Neighbouring local authorities in Liverpool City Region and
Mersey Dee Alliance
· Engaged with the Cool Wirral Partnership with presentation and
sharing of the Have Your Say link
· An e-mail was also shared with schools within the borough via
the road safety team
An equality impact assessment will be undertaken and provided as part of
the committee report which considers the Core Active Travel Network
consultation, and further EIAs will be undertaken should designs progress
for each route and will also be reported to committee.
Yours sincerely
Tracy O'Hare
Information Management Technical Officer
Law and Corporate Services
Wirral Council
PO Box 290
Brighton Street
Wallasey
CH27 9FQ
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