Issue - meetings

To receive the Task Group’s interim report and recommendations following scrutiny of Public Transport in the S&ELCP area (report of the Assistant Director - Strategic Growth and Development, on behalf of the Partnership Scrutiny Task Group, enclosed).

Consideration was given to the Task Group’s interim report and recommendations following scrutiny of Public Transport in the S&ELCP area.

The Chairman of the Task Group, Councillor C Brewis, introduced the report on behalf of the Assistant Director – Strategic Growth and Development, by expressing gratitude to the full membership of the Task Group for the progress achieved to date. The following points were highlighted to the Panel:

• the scrutiny process had included broad consultations from both within and beyond the Lincolnshire boundary, and needed to continue;
• the Task Group had considered short-term, medium-term and long-term needs and ambitions for public transport in the S&ELCP area;
• it was considered that the creation of a Transport Co-ordinator post would be beneficial to the S&ELCP; and
• Lincolnshire County Council had indicated that their co-operation would be forthcoming in the seeking of innovative solutions for public transport issues within the S&ELCP area.

Members considered the report and made the following comments:

• The Chairman thanked the Task Group for the report and stressed the importance of the collaborative approach taken/sought between the three partnership authorities of the S&ELCP and Lincolnshire County Council, in order to achieve results.

• Members noted the extensive work that had taken place and that ensuing progress would benefit the whole of Lincolnshire. Whilst some of the recommendations were longer term solutions, others could be implemented quickly to benefit the residents of South Holland.

AGREED:

That after consideration by the Performance Monitoring Panel, the Joint Scrutiny of Public Transport in the S&ELCP area interim report and associated recommendations be noted.