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NDM6635 - Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)
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Meeting: 14/02/2018 - Plenary - Fifth Senedd (Item 5)
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv) - Unadopted roads
NDM6635
David
Melding (South Wales Central
Supported by
To propose that
the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes the
number of roads in Wales which are unadopted, and are therefore not maintained
by the relevant local authority.
2. Notes that a
number of developers have not built roads on new estates to adoptable
standards.
3. Recognises
that there are weaknesses in the house-buying process, which does not always
ensure that buyers have sufficient financial retentions in place to bring these
roads up to the local authority's adoptable standard.
4. Recognises
that house buyers are often faced with having to invest significant sums of
money in order to bring roads up to the local authority's adoptable standard.
5. Notes that
many of these roads remain unadopted and in a bad state of repair, for a number
of years, sometimes in perpetuity.
6. Calls on the
Welsh Government to establish a taskforce, to include local authorities, the
legal profession, developers and other key stakeholders, with a view to
developing improvements to the house buying and road adoption process.
7. Seeks to
develop a Wales-wide programme to deliver a reduction in the number of
unadopted roads in Wales.
Minutes:
The item started at 15.37
NDM6635
David Melding (South Wales Central
Supported by
To propose that the
National Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes the number
of roads in Wales which are unadopted, and are therefore not maintained by the
relevant local authority.
2. Notes that a
number of developers have not built roads on new estates to adoptable
standards.
3. Recognises that
there are weaknesses in the house-buying process, which does not always ensure
that buyers have sufficient financial retentions in place to bring these roads
up to the local authority's adoptable standard.
4. Recognises that
house buyers are often faced with having to invest significant sums of money in
order to bring roads up to the local authority's adoptable standard.
5. Notes that many
of these roads remain unadopted and in a bad state of repair, for a number of
years, sometimes in perpetuity.
6. Calls on the
Welsh Government to establish a taskforce, to include local authorities, the
legal profession, developers and other key stakeholders, with a view to
developing improvements to the house buying and road adoption process.
7. Seeks to develop
a Wales-wide programme to deliver a reduction in the number of unadopted roads
in Wales.
The motion was agreed
in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.