Issue - meetings

That:

1)        the contents of the report on Transport for the South East Proposal to Government be noted;

2)        the draft proposal to establish a Sub-national Transport Body (STB) for the South East, to be known as Transport for the South East (TfSE) be welcomed;

3)        the response to the TfSE consultation as detailed in the report be approved; and

4)        the Director of Locality and Customer Services be authorised to return the response to TfSE on behalf of Wokingham Borough Council.

The Executive considered a report setting out the Council’s response to the consultation relating to the proposal from Transport for the South East (TfSE) for them to become a statutory Sub-national Transport Body (STB).

When introducing the report the Executive Member for Highways and Transport advised the meeting that becoming an STB enables the constituent councils to: bid together for funds eg extra road funding; have a greater ability to influence policy across the whole of the south east; and would ensure inclusion in consultations on train franchises which could lead to some inter-ticketing between organisations.  It would also provide the ability to establish clean air zones and have more influence for the south east. 

RESOLVED that:

1)        the contents of the report on Transport for the South East Proposal to Government be noted;

2)        the draft proposal to establish a Sub-national Transport Body (STB) for the South East, to be known as Transport for the South East (TfSE), be welcomed;

3)        the response to the TfSE consultation as detailed in the report be approved; and

4)        the Director of Locality and Customer Services be authorised to return the response to TfSE on behalf of Wokingham Borough Council.