Highways Maintenance Plan - EQA duty in the revised Appendix A plan
Case reference FOI2024/00994
Received 4 June 2024
Published 26 June 2024
Request
RE: Highways Maintenance Plan
There is no evidence of any EQA duty in the revised Appendix A plan and the plan for the most part is identical to the 2023.
1. Please provide all s149 EQA 2010 examination evidence held as a result of the finding that no evidence were in place in 2023 which led to the LGSO complaint and to the decision to provide evidence of the PSED by May 30th 2024.
Response
RE: Highways Maintenance Plan
There is no evidence of any EQA duty in the revised Appendix A plan and the plan for the most part is identical to the 2023.
1. Please provide all s149 EQA 2010 examination evidence held as a result of the finding that no evidence were in place in 2023 which led to the LGSO complaint and to the decision to provide evidence of the PSED by May 30th 2024.
A) The Service Area have advised the Council has reviewed its Highway Maintenance Plan, which sets out the reasonable system of inspection and repair that will be deployed by the Council to ensure that it meets its duty to maintain all publicly maintainable highways that it is responsible for.
A revised version of the Highway Maintenance Plan has been produced and was adopted by the Cabinet Member for Roads and Regulatory Services in April. Details of the decision and a copy of the report can be viewed via https://councillors.herefordshire.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=10085
The Equality Duty has been considered as part of the Council’s decision making process, as per Sections 10, 11 and 12 of the report to the Cabinet Member for Roads and Regulatory Services, which can be viewed directly via https://councillors.herefordshire.gov.uk/documents/s50118292/Highway%20Maintenance%20Plan%20main%20report.pdf
As per Section 12 of the report, the revised HMP now considers the equality duty and how risks to protected groups are assessed as part of the decision making. Section 4 of the HMP sets out the detail of the Risk Based Approach that is followed and how the decision making process now takes into account protected groups. Section 8 of the HMP sets out the Safety Inspection, Assessment and Recording processes and procedures, which now takes into account protected groups. Section 9 of the HMP details the Categories of Defect, which also now takes into account protected groups through the calculation of risk and therefore the response time that is allocated to a defect.
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