The Area Committee has given 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.