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With the assistance of a report by the Director of Operational Services, to consider a response to the Highways Agency Consultation on the A14 upgrade proposal.

Subject to the incorporation of minor amendments by the Director of Operational Services, recommended to full Council that the   comments outlined in the report now submitted be used as the basis for aresponse to the Highways Agency Consultation on the upgrade of   the   A14; and

Authorised the Director of Operational Services, after consultation with the Executive Councillor Planning Strategy, to agree a   Statement of Principles with other Cambridgeshire Local Authorities as   a joint submission to the Highways Agency based on the principles set   out in the report. 

The Committee considered a report by the Director of Operational Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) outlining proposals by the Highways Agency to improve the A14 between Ellington and Fen Ditton.  The Chairman commented that the main consultees were already working on a consensus approach in their response to this exercise.

Following discussion and having indicated their support for the Council’s previous resolution in this respect, as set out in annex A to the report, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

(a)  that, subject to the incorporation of minor amendments by the Director of Operational Services, the Council be recommended to endorse the comments in the report now submitted as the basis for a response to the Highways Agency Consultation on the upgrade of the A14; and

(b)  that the Director of Operational Services, after consultation with the Executive Councillor for Planning Strategy, be authorised to agree a Statement of Principles with other Cambridgeshire local authorities as a joint submission to the Highways Agency based on the principles set out in the report.