Meeting: Environment and Transport Meeting
Meeting Date: Wednesday 30th September at 7:00pm
Meeting Venue: Lower Council Chamber of the Council Offices

The public are invited to attend or view this meeting. There is public seating in the meeting room, the meeting can be watched on YouTube and Microsoft Teams. The public can address the meeting in person or via Microsoft Teams.

1 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

To receive apologies for absence.

 

2 DECLARATIONS OF MEMBERS’ INTERESTS

To receive declarations of personal, prejudicial and pecuniary interests from members relevant to items under discussion at the meeting.

 

3 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

A period of up to 5 minutes for members of the public to ask questions or submit comments.

 

4 CONFIRMATION OF PREVIOUS MINUTES

To receive and confirm the minutes of the committee meeting held on 8th June 2026.

Attachment – Minutes of the meeting held 8th June 2026.

 

5 REVIEW OF YEAR TO DATE INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

To consider the committee income and expenditure to 03/09/2026.

Attachment – Income and Expenditure Committee Report 03/09/2026

 

6 CANUTE PLACE ROUNDABOUT

To consider whether to allocate budget to the installation of a new feature for the roundabout and determine how to progress the project.

Attachment – Report ET-26-07 Canute Place Roundabout

 

7 KNUTSFORD IN BLOOM ANNUAL FUNDING

To consider increasing the annual grant to Knutsford in Bloom

Attachment – Report ET-26-08 Knutsford in Bloom Annual Funding

 

8 ELIZABETH GASKELL BLUE PLAQUE: ST JOHNS CHURCH

To consider a recommendation from the blue plaque panel.

Attachment – Report ET-26-12 Elizabeth Gaskell Blue Plaque

 

9 CHURCH HILL CLOSURE EXPERIMENTAL ORDER

To note Cheshire East Council intends to progress the order to close Church Hill in winter and consider whether any action is required.

Attachment – Report ET-26-13 Church Hill Closure

 

10 ACTIVE TRAVEL INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN

To note the consultation report for the active travel survey and consider approval of the Active Travel Infrastructure Plan.

Attachments (3) – Report ET-26-09 Active Travel Infrastructure Plan, Active Travel Survey Consultation Report and Draft Active Travel Infrastructure Plan.

 

11 STRATEGIC PLAN

To review progress against current year actions and agree actions for 2027/28.

Attachment – Report ET-26-10 Strategic Plan update and actions 2027/28

 

12 COMMITTEE BUDGET 2027/28

To agree a draft budget for the 2027/28 financial year.

Attachments (2) – Report ET-26-11 Committee Budget 2027/28 and Draft Environment Committee Budget 2027/28

 

13 OUTSTANDING ACTIONS AND PROJECT UPDATES REPORT

To review the outstanding actions log and project updates report.

Attachment – Environment and Transport Committee Actions and Project Updates Report September 2026

 

14 COMMITTEE WORKPLAN

To note the committee workplan.

Attachment – Environment and Transport Committee Workplan September 2026

 

15 QUESTIONS TO THE TOWN CLERK

An opportunity for members to raise questions relevant to the work of the committee to the Town Clerk

 

16 DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING

To note that the next scheduled meeting will be held on 30th November 2026 at 7:30pm.