Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Corporate Director (Place) and Deputy Chief Executive.

The report details the findings of a consultation exercise for the Road Safety around Schools scheme around Hazel Grove Primary School and to seek approval for the implementation of dropped kerbs with tactile paving; access protection markings; and new school warning signs.

The Area Committee is recommended to give approval to the following scheme to be funded from the Road Safety Around Schools Programme Budget:-

·         Review and upgrade of the school warning signs along Commercial Road to ensure their relevance and requirement;

·         Installation of dropped kerbs and tactile paving on Commercial Road, between Talbot Street and Co-operative Street to aid pedestrians / children to cross the road and support the existing School Crossing Patrol; and

·         Provision of two ‘Middleton Bollards’ at the uncontrolled crossing adjacent to Co-operative Street, three ‘Middleton Bollards’ on Chapel Street at the uncontrolled crossing point adjacent to Grove Street and four ‘Middleton Bollards’ on Chapel Street at the uncontrolled crossing point located to the north of Hazel Street, to highlight pedestrian routes to school and prevent vehicular encroachment on footways.

Officer contact: Caroline Aylmer-Shanks on 0161-474-4840 or email: c.aylmer-shanks@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Corporate Director (Place) and Deputy Chief Executive submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) to detail the findings of a consultation exercise for the Road Safety around Schools scheme around Hazel Grove Primary School and to seek approval for the implementation of dropped kerbs with tactile paving; access protection markings; and new school warning signs.

RESOLVED – That approval be given to the following scheme to be funded from the Road Safety Around Schools Programme Budget:-

·         Review and upgrade of the school warning signs along Commercial Road to ensure their relevance and requirement;

·         Installation of dropped kerbs and tactile paving on Commercial Road, between Talbot Street and Co-operative Street to aid pedestrians / children to cross the road and support the existing School Crossing Patrol; and

·         Provision of two ‘Middleton Bollards’ at the uncontrolled crossing adjacent to Co-operative Street, three ‘Middleton Bollards’ on Chapel Street at the uncontrolled crossing point adjacent to Grove Street and four ‘Middleton Bollards’ on Chapel Street at the uncontrolled crossing point located to the north of Hazel Street, to highlight pedestrian routes to school and prevent vehicular encroachment on footways.