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Report ES13071

Report ES13071 sought a Resolution of Approval under the Private Street Works (PSW) Code, in respect of two sections of unadopted highway at The Fairway / Southborough Lane, Bromley. The Resolution would enable the street footways to be made-up and adopted, and thereafter maintained at the public expense.

An earlier decision was made to:

·   progress schemes concerning the use and condition of the two unmade and unadopted sections of footway in front of numbers 187-211,  Southborough Lane  to the west of The Fairway and numbers 213a-239 Southborough Lane, to the east of The Fairway; and

·   prepare a further report to obtain Resolutions of Approval for the two separate schemes under the PSW Code (both schemes would join the existing adopted highway, known as ‘The Fairway‘).

As the Council was only empowered to adopt the footways (enabling them to be highway maintainable at public expense) following improvement works carried out under the provisions of the PSW Code, it was necessary to make two distinct Resolutions to enable this:

·   a First Resolution to execute the necessary works giving details of those aspects of the street with which it is dissatisfied, and

·   a second Resolution, a “Resolution of Approval” approving plans and sections of the proposed works, a specification of the works required to bring the street up to a suitable standard, an estimate of the cost of such works, and a provisional apportionment of these costs amongst the owners of the land fronting the works.

A First Resolution was made under s. 205(1) of the Highways Act 1980, on 16 April 2013 (ES13036). The appropriate documents had now been prepared to enable a Resolution of Approval to be made enabling the Provisional Apportionment, containing details of property ownerships, to be as up to date as possible.

RESOLVED that the Portfolio Holder be recommended to:

(1)  approve without modification the specification design details shown on Plan No. 11324-02-1, sections, estimate and provisional apportionment; 

(2) approve without modification the specification design details shown on Plan No. 11324-02-2, sections, estimate and provisional apportionment; and

(3)  further resolve that the Council bears the whole of the cost of the street works, which will be met from funding provided by Transport for London under the provisions of s. 236(1) of the Highways Act 1980.