New traffic calming announced for Beacon Hill Rise

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Wednesday evening Friends of Stonebridge Park held there second meeting at the Blue Bell Hill Community Centre which was well attended by over 50 locals.

The meeting was attended by PC Paul Dean, PCSO Michelle Kent and CPO Jordan Cashmore. Laura Summers & Ben Rowson also came along who were the former SPTRA Chair & Secretary; while Afzaal Nawaz of Nottingham City Homes also came along.

Bill Robson was elected Chairman; Sylvia Miller is Vic Chair; Richard Pearson Secretary and Mr Robert Bryson is the new Treasurer.

Much of the meeting covered the serious road safety concerns of Beacon Hill Rise Road & Stonebridge Roads, and there were many questions & comments from all the residents attending the meeting.

St Ann’s Councillor David Liversidge (Portfolio Holder for Adults, Housing and the Community Sector), said that all of the ward's councillors had listened to our road safety concerns, and our petition was well received.

David said that the City Council's Highways Department had carried out a survey of these and neighbouring roads and provided a total cost of a new road safety scheme to sort out most of the problems. He and the other St Ann's councillors, Sue Johnson & Jon Collins along with the Area 6 (East) committee members had approved the funding in principal so the work can go ahead.

A series of single/double yellow lines and no parking signs are to be put in place to stop cars double parking on the streets, principally Stonebridge & Beacon Hill Rise Roads.

Some road humps will be put in place on Beacon Hill Road to stop cars speeding along this highway towards the city centre.

Local resident Anna Whyman of Stonebridge Road informed the meeting that speeding cars were not the problem where she lived; it was the large number of double parked cars. She said that she was pleased with David’s announcement.

Richard Pearson, Bill Robson, Bill Wyman and other local residents were on today’s   BBC  Radio Nottingham’s  Andy Whittaker breakfast show. Andy Whittaker Andy Whittaker

The next meeting of Friends of Stonebridge Park will be in the last week of May.

• Using the above link our slot is 60 min’s into the programme, and we get a mention on the news bulletins.