Am I being too pessimistic but is it the case that the celebrations are a bit premature here? (although I love the picture of Sam Hearn celebrating outside Hounslow House).The decision to make the measures permanent may not be delay at all because all that seems to need to happen is that the same council officer will submit the report he made to justify the decision originally to cabinet which seems likely to endorse it. This will hardly delay the process at all.There already needed to be an additional consultation as part of issuing the permanent traffic orders so the scrutiny committee's call for more consultation is superfluous. What I saw no mention of is these consultations being 'CPZ Style' as in Ealing i.e. the council wouldn't be able to force through measures that were unpopular. A normal statutory consultation does not necessarily mean a project can't go ahead even if 88% of people think it is a bad idea.As for the recent amendments to the Grove Park scheme and the amendments to those amendments made recently isn't it just the case that as with the recommendations on the permanent scheme, all that is needed is for the cabinet to be given a slightly more detailed report for them to approve the issuing of an emergency traffic order?The concern would be that, laudable that the efforts of the councillors and the protestors have been, the ruling by the Scrutiny Committee only delays the progress of these schemes by a few weeks.
Jeremy Parkinson ● 1856d