19 Objection to Proposed Waiting Restrictions - Russell Court, Farnworth PDF 28 KB
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The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director Policy and Resources, which informed Members of objections that had been received following public consultation on a proposed Traffic Regulation Order to introduce ‘At Any Time’ waiting restrictions in Russell Court, Widnes. At a previous meeting of the Board held on 15th June 2011, (Minute No8 refers, a petition from residents of Russell Court relating to long standing car parking problems in the area was considered It was recognised that there was no on-highway parking permitted on Farnworth Street and little off-street provision; the lack of any visible controls on parking in Russell Court had meant that this small cul-de-sac had become the parking place of choice for more drivers than the space available could comfortably accommodate.
In a
subsequent consultation exercise with residents of Russell Court, provision of 4 additional parking spaces on
the ‘drying area’ was proposed. However, this proposal was not generally
accepted due to the loss of amenity and comments from the residents that the
disabled parking bays should be near the houses. In view of the comments Halton
Housing Trust (HHT) decided that the scheme did not represent good value for
money, so the scheme was not progressed. However, the following was
constructed:
1.
three
new disabled person parking spaces at the head of Russell Court;
2.
a
former highway grass verge was replaced to create additional road space;
3.
two new
‘private’ off-street parking spaces in the gardens of other properties owned by
HHT;
4.
‘H-bar’
markings to protect adjoining accesses from obstruction; and
5. bollards
had been installed in some of the highway verges to prevent ‘driving on’ abuse of these areas.
However,
parking congestion had continued, creating access difficulties and leading to
inter-driver/neighbour disputes. As
Russell Court, was only 5.5 metres wide, parking could take place on one side
or the other, not on both sides simultaneously. In light of this, in June 2012 parking
restrictions shown in the report were sent out to public consultation. The proposed restrictions sought to prevent
parking where it should be avoided, in order to prevent obstruction and to
maintain the unrestricted flow of traffic.
Subsequently, four objections to the
waiting restrictions have been received.
There were no objections to designation of the three disabled person
parking spaces at the head of the cul-de-sac.The objections referred to:
·
Russell
Court is congested at the present time and raised concerns over parking
displacement into adjacent areas;
·
congestion
and parking space pressure in Russell Court;
·
the measures that
have been taken to try and alleviate the problems. Again the fears are for displacement of
parking demand and particular concerns over the behaviour of neighbours and the
possibility of further animosity and the parking difficulties facing visitors
to Russell Court; and
·
pressure on
available parking space if the proposed restrictions go ahead, and fears her
garage entrance would be blocked routinely despite the recently installed
‘H-bar’ marking.
The Officers responses to each of the objections and proposals were ... view the full minutes text for item 19