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Motion submitted by Councillor Pugh - Burscough Curves

 

 

Meeting: 23/01/2020 - Council (Item 87)

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Minutes:

It was moved by Councillor Pugh, seconded by Councillor Dawson:

 

Burscough Curves

This Council:

 

(1)

notes the intention of the incoming Conservative government to establish a £500 million Beeching Reversal Funds;

 

(2)

recognises the potential economic benefits that could follow from the restoration of the Burscough Curves -particularly to Southport;

 

(3)

urges the City Region Authority to prioritise the scheme in conjunction with neighbouring authorities in order to draw down available government funding; and

 

(4)

will notify the Department of Transport, neighbouring MPs and Network Rail of its support for the restoration of rail links at Burscough that will bind Liverpool City Region, Preston City Region and East Lancashire more closely together and invite their response.

 

An amendment was moved by Councillor Friel, seconded by Councillor Halsall that the Motion be amended by the addition of the following paragraph:

 

(5)

Write to West Lancashire Borough Council to advise of our Motion and support the principle outlined by notifying the Department for Transport and the Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps) to that effect.

 

In accordance with Paragraph 72 in Chapter 4 of the Council’s Constitution, Councillor Friel offered the amendment as a ‘friendly amendment’ and Councillor Pugh accepted it as such.

 

The Amendment was unanimously agreed and became the Substantive Motion.

 

Following debate on the Substantive Motion, it was unanimously

 

RESOLVED:

 

Burscough Curves

This Council:

 

(1)

notes the intention of the incoming Conservative government to establish a £500 million Beeching Reversal Funds;

 

(2)

recognises the potential economic benefits that could follow from the restoration of the Burscough Curves -particularly to Southport;

 

(3)

urges the City Region Authority to prioritise the scheme in conjunction with neighbouring authorities in order to draw down available government funding;

 

(4)

will notify the Department of Transport, neighbouring MPs and Network Rail of its support for the restoration of rail links at Burscough that will bind Liverpool City Region, Preston City Region and East Lancashire more closely together and invite their response; and

 

(5)

Write to West Lancashire Borough Council to advise of our Motion and support the principle outlined by notifying the Department for Transport and the Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps) to that effect.