Date received: 02 February 2023
Signatories received: -
Name of petitioner: Broad Lane Residents Association, Essington Parish Council
Petition response:
RE: Broad Lane - Petition
Thank you for your correspondence relating to the residents petition and the current traffic calming measures on Broad Lane Essington.
The works currently in progress on Broad Lane is an investment of £700,000 in structural maintenance including carriageway, footway and kerbing works. The carriageway resurfacing works will include the replacement of the infrastructure already in place including the existing road humps.
The reason we have to replace the current traffic calming measures is due to a legal order (Traffic Regulation Order) which is in place and would require a formal legal process including Statutory consultations before considering adjustment or removal of such measures.
The calming measures on Broad Lane have been put in for a reason with previous support from the local community and their representatives. As Broad Lane is a long straight section of highway, without such measures in place, traffic speeds may increase which in turn increases risk and reduces safety.
Should road humps be considered for removal we would likely have to replace them in part with alternative measures such as a mix of road humps and build outs. The £700,000 available to us for reconstruction works would not cover any re-design, consultation and construction of alternative measures. To delay the surfacing works in order to investigate an alternative calming scheme would have meant we would have lost the opportunity for the current funding of these essential maintenance works.
The carriageway works began on Monday 20th February 2023 for a period of 17 days and further information will be sent out to residents shortly.
In terms of the Yellow line No Waiting restrictions these can of course be reviewed however as above these are legal restrictions and we would need to follow the same process to revoke the current Traffic Regulation Order.
Both Implementation and removal of restrictions are usually always funded by the local County Councillor’s Divisional Highway Programme (DHP), only a small number of areas can be targeted around the county each financial year and these sites will have been considered by the local Member to be a Local Community Priority. The request to remove these particular restrictions will be discussed with Cllr Kath Perry and Cllr Bernard Williams in the coming weeks.
Yours sincerely,
David Williams
Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport