Hotham Road North buses

John Fareham and John Abbott have used the venue of full Council to press for progress on the issue of Stagecoach bus services continuing to pass via Hotham Road North.

Between us we gave a full explanation both of the constitutional and procedural goings-on on this issue and the basic reasons in terms of the needs of the travelling public and the benefits to both residents of Bricknell Estate and the far end of Bricknell Avenue of making the changes that we, local residents, and Stagecoach have all made it abundantly clear that we want. The ruling group, before anybody else had had the chance to express an opinion for or against, moved that the matter be referred to Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee for passing on to the relevant scrutiny committee.  We were tolerably content with their assurance that this would enable the matter to be discussed in more detail than would be practicable in the Council chamber and will report back when we know where the matter is going and what comes of the discussions.