Present
Malcolm Reed SE
Janet Egdell SE
Peter Fuller SE
Denise Manzor SE
Ron McAulay NR
Nigel Wunsch NR
Geoff Cook NR
Richard Eccles NR
Gerard O’Hanlon First Scotrail
Paul Hadley ORR
Agenda Items
1. Minutes of last meeting
Minutes of 3 November were approved without amendment.
2. Action Points
AP 5: ‘Decide exact wording of resource scenarios’
It was agreed to leave as scenario A & B.
All other action points cleared.
3. Way Forward for the Scottish Planning Assessment
Comments
have been received on the first draft of Part Two of the Scottish
Planning Assessment. The format has been discussed with ARUP and it
has been decided that the report will be restructured. The new format
will present the conclusions and recommendations at a more strategic
level with less emphasis on the detail of projects. The technical
detail will be captured and presented in appendices.
4. National Transport Strategy Update
The
consultation on rail priorities for the National Transport Strategy
will close on 28th December although responses will be accepted up to
13th January. An analysis of responses will be published by 7 April
2006.
A consultation document on the National Transport Strategy will be issued in January/February.
5. Progress with the RUS
Nigel Wunsch gave a presentation on the Route Utilisation Strategy process.
The scope has been established and the Baseline pack was issued on 11th November.
There
will be ongoing consultation with stakeholders and it is hoped that the
completed RUS will go out to consultation in around April/May next year.
The RUS will build on the SPA work and ARUP are working with the Network Rail demand team on demand assessment work.
It
was highlighted that clarity is needed on the RUS Linkage with the High
Level Output Statement and the potential for a joint stakeholder
liaison event in the spring was discussed.
6. Network Rail Discretionary Fund
Network
Rail previously circulated a spreadsheet showing schemes identified so
far for funding from the discretionary fund. Business cases are still
being prepared for these so it is possible that some of the schemes
will not go ahead and the projected costs may change.
It was agreed that written comments on the proposed schemes and suggestions for other schemes would be sent to NR.
Also
previously circulated was the draft appraisal guidance which is under
discussion between NR/SE/DfT. It was agreed that one set of guidance
is preferable rather than separate guidance for Scotland.
7. AOB
None
9. Date of next meeting
It was agreed that the next meeting would be rescheduled.
The revised date is 23rd January at 2:30 in Buchanan House, Glasgow.
