Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Service Director (Place Management)

The report details proposals for additional road safety measures in the vicinity of Norbury Hall Primary School following concerns raised about parked vehicles at junction hampering safety and visibility for children and parents.

The Area Committee is recommended to approve the introduction of Traffic Regulation Orders on Shepley Drive, Oaklands Drive, Brooklands and Castleton Road and Haddon Road as detailed in the report and the introduction of dropped crossing with tactile paving to on Haddon Road at the junction with Castleton Road, at a cost of £1,400 to be funded from the Area Committee’s Highway Maintenance and Traffic Management delegated budget.

Officer contact: Max Townsend, 0161 474 4861, max.townsend@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Service Director (Place Management) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Area Committee to consider proposals for the introduction of road safety improvements in the vicinity of Norbury Hall Primary School following concerns raised by parents.

RESOLVED – That, in order to improve safety for pedestrians, the following traffic scheme be approved, at a cost £1,400 be funded from the Highway Maintenance and Traffic Management delegated budget (Hazel Grove Ward allocation):-

(i)            No Waiting at Any Time:

Shepley Drive

Both sides from a point 10 metres West of the projected Westerly kerb line of Oaklands Drive to a point 10 metres East of the projected Easterly kerb line of Oaklands Drive

Oaklands Drive

Both sides from the Northerly kerb line of Shepley Drive for 10 metres in a Northerly direction

Brooklands Road

Both sides from the Southerly kerb line of Shepley Drive for 10 metres in a Southerly direction

Castleton Road

West side from a point 10 metres South of the Southerly kerb line of Haddon Road to a point 10 metres North of the Northerly kerb line of Haddon Road

Haddon Road

Both sides from the Westerly kerb line of Castleton Road for a distance of 10 metres in an Easterly direction

(ii)          Extend No Stopping Monday to Friday 8am – 5pm on School Markings:

Shepley Drive

South side from a point 15 metres West of the projected Westerly kerb line of Castleton Road for a distance of 21 metres in a Westerly direction

(iii)         Not forming part of the Traffic Regulation Order, dropped crossings with tactile paving to be constructed on Haddon Road at the junction with Castleton Road.