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by Lib Dem team on 13 December, 2011
Update: this decision has now been taken – click here for details.
Following a public consultation across the South Park Road estate, Council officers have proposed that the most popular option be adopted.
This is to make the whole of the estate 20mph and to put five speed humps along the residential section of the Kingsway Service Road (outside numbers 164, 168, 174, 178 and 184).
Although all our experience of modern speed humps is that they do not cause problems for people living next to them, we can well understand that some residents on the Kingsway service road may be concerned about this proposal.
We need to have your opinions before next Tuesday evening (20th December) – that’s when the councillors have been asked to take the decision.
Please let us know if you live on the estate and have strong views for or against the proposals – and why you support or oppose them.
You can find details of the proposals starting on page 65 of the PDF (page number 59, if you’re looking at the numbers printed on the document).
Cheadle Area Committee Dec 2011
7 Comments
I think the proposed option was the one I thought best (although I can’t recall all the options now).
That said, the neighbours living along “lower Kingsway” and Brayston are those most affected by the rat-running and I’d hope the Area Committee would give some extra weight to their opinions (whatever they might have been).
We live at No 184 and think that speed humps are a terrible idea. They will do nothing for the real problem – traffic using us as a short cut off the M60. If you want to slow traffic down, put STOP signs at the junction with Lyndene Gardens. A better (but more expensive idea) is to make a proper connection between the M60 and M56 eastbound slip roads – at present there is a very rough connection between the two which we spotted when two cars used it to avoid an enormous queue on the M60 slip. Other than that, money we haven’t got will be spent to little effect.
Iain,
I cannot believe that the council are prepared to spend £20k on 20mph signage and 5 speed humps when the issue is non-resident traffic using the estate as a cut through. As far as I am aware there has never been an issue of speeding on the estate and we simply need a deterrent for motorist who continue to ignore the exiting restricted access signage. The police need to be tougher in their approach to the situation. I am sure that what has been proposed will not have any effect on the illegal access to the estate and the money could be better spent elsewhere. I am extremely disappointed at what the council with the backing of the Liberal Democrat team are proposing and I would like to hear what other local residents have to say about it.
Hi Steve,
The money to be spent on this isn’t Council money. It comes from the developers of the Barnes Hospital site and has to be spent on highway improvements or similar near to Barnes Hospital.
We were concerned to get an outcome that residents wanted, which is why there’s been a consultation of all 185 households across the estate asking what people did want from a range of options, of which this one came out top.
As there have been numerous accidents and near misses caused by non-residents driving down the Kingsway service road, slowing them down will hopefully improve the safety situation even if it doesn’t reduce the number of cars coming onto the estate (which, as you rightly say, is down to police enforcement unless someone comes up with a clever idea about how to change the road layout).
Iain
Spend the money on a dummy camera instead – if anything is going to deter illegal access it will be a camera – assuming the police aren’t interested.
I don’t believe the proposal will stop the rat runners
Hi Phil,
No, I’m sure you’re right. We’re working to do what we can to improve the situation, but it isn’t a full solution.