Forest Lodge

- The Council’s legal team are in contact with the legal representation of Forest Lodge residents regarding the rights of both parties over the land currently used for parking outside the property. No design can be finalised until this issue is resolved.

- Continuing with existing situation where cars cross the footway is not acceptable by the Council and the stakeholders.

- Stakeholders were informed that options for additional parking will be investigated for Forest Lodge residents, despite the current General Arrangement showing no parking. However, the final design will be subjected to a safety considerations.

- Suggested solutions at the meeting included 45 degree chevron parking and reverting to the parallel bays as shown in the first consultation.



Pools & Louise House

- Cllr Best requested that a DDA compliant ramp be provided between the pools and Louise House through a gap in the wall and fencing. The design team reported that this area had been removed from the LIP project scope some time ago, there had been no further work and is now outside the remit of the proposed highway improvement scheme. V22 to investigate possibility from their perspective and seek any necessary approvals.



Consultation response and draft programme



- The consultation response was summarised and a presentation has been appended to these minutes which indicates an initial draft programme for the scheme and a final developed programme will be reported back to the key stakeholder meeting in June.



Scheme Funding allocation



- It was noted at the meeting that the funding for the project has been allocated for financial year 2016/17 and the work should be carried out during the course of that period. There is a risk that the funding may not be reallocated to subsequent years by Transport for London which would result in the loss of the scheme.



Cycle strategy

- The existence of a cycle strategy for Forest Hill was mentioned. The attached is taken from LB Lewisham’s LIP Delivery Plan 2014-17 and shows an indicative future cycling network, based on existing links and TfL draft proposals from the time, including a mini-holland bid, Cycle Superhighways and a long list of Quietways. The route shown through Forest Hill is on the long list of Quietways proposals, but which is currently un-funded.


AOB

- Councillors would like the key stakeholder group to have a further update approximately in June around the time of the next Local Assembly.