Regional Transport Forum

The Regional Transport Forum was established in 2005 to:

provide the principal forum to enable discussion between local authority transport portfolio holders, regional agencies and other key transport bodies;
encourage opportunities for the exchange of information on best practice between county/unitary transport authorities; and
advise the Regional Assembly’s Regional Planning Panel on transport matters, in particular:

  • on the identification of regional transport priorities;
  • on issues relating to strategic road and rail routes;
  • on wider inter-regional transport issues such as those relating to London, the wider South East and the East Midlands;
  • on transport issues associated with ports and airports within the region.

Regional agencies and other key transport bodies involved in the Forum include Department for Transport Rail, East of England Development Agency, East of England Regional Assembly, Government Office for the East of England, Highways Agency and Network Rail.

Hertfordshire County Council initially chaired and hosted the Forum. At the meeting on 12 October last year the Forum agreed that Suffolk County Council would chair and act as secretariat to the Forum from April 2007 for a period of two years. The first meeting held in Suffolk under the chairmanship of County Councillor Guy McGregor took place on the 15 June.

Further Forum meetings planned this year will be held in Bury St Edmunds.

Details of past agendas and reports can be found at: http://www.eera.gov.uk/category.asp?cat=532

For further information please contact Peter Grimm on 01473 264811 or peter.grimm@et.suffolkcc.gov.uk