Waverley Railway (Scotland) Bill Committee, 16 Jan 2006

Meeting date: Monday, January 16, 2006

Official Report 452KB pdf

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Stow Station

Item 2 concerns the proposal to have a station at Stow. As the committee will recall, we made that recommendation in our preliminary stage report.

The paper invites the committee to consider and agree whether it continues to support further consideration of a station at Stow and outlines the subsequent procedure if we decide to take forward the proposal. I invite members' views on the matter and ask whether we agree to give further consideration to this issue.

I am minded to say that we should give the issue further consideration.

Members indicated agreement.

That is unanimous.

Does the committee then accept that option B, as indicated in the memorandum, should be the preferred location of the station?

Members indicated agreement.

I also invite members' views on whether we should have an objection period that is shorter than the usual 60 days and, if so, how long that period might be.

I suggest that the objection period should be 21 days from the day after the promoter posts the notice.

That seems appropriate. I do not think that we should delay the matter for the six weeks that we have previously given.

I concur with that. I guess that anyone in Stow who will be affected by this proposal is probably well aware of the situation by now. We should also bear in mind the consultation that has been going on over the past few months.

I, too, agree that we should support option B as the location for the station and that we should have a 21-day objection period. I also indicate to the promoter our desire for the necessary advertisements and notification letters to be issued at the earliest opportunity and invite the clerk to timetable the committee's further consideration of this matter.

That concludes our business. I close the meeting.

Meeting closed at 16:35.