Twenty is Plenty - Traffic Calming Needed
Residents from Hawthorn Grove presented a petition to Full Council on May 8th, calling for traffic calming measures to be put in place. This is in fact the second petition signed up by an overwhelming majority of residents living in both Hawthorn Grove and Sedgemoor Road.
Well over a year ago a petition was accepted and works agreed at The South Area Committee, Since scrapped by the present Council Administration, and the promised works have subsequently failed to happen.
Southstoke Road residents are in the same position, having presented a 100% sign up requesting 20 miles an hour signage, well over a year ago. I have lost count of the number of times we have agitated for these works to begin, including questions to Charles Gerrish, the Cabinet Member responsible. There is little doubt that the managing of resources and highways by the Administration leaves a lot to be desired, and yet it is these areas which have a real impact on residents daily lives.
I have now secured a meeting with Charles Gerrish set for June 10th, to come up to both Hawthorn Grove, Sedgemoor Road and Southstoke Road, and see the situation on the ground. We are pleased he has agreed to come, and Roger and I will also ask him up again to address a long list of outstanding promised highways works, that yet again as we move further into this next financial year have failed to happen. Not to mention sorting out of the removal of yellow lines around the village following areas of mine stabilisation, overwhich there has been unacceptable delay.
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