ACER Responses to Yellow Line Proposals in TRO2023

ACER , The Whitegates Residents Association Responses to Proposed TRO 2023     06/10/23

ACER requests additional restrictions to those proposed, as itemised below:

Plan L37

PLEASE NOTE the problem vehicles are currently relocating into nearby roads.

The restrictions shown are welcome and should address the problem of vehicles on Fridays obstructing the bus route in London Road in the area covered by L37. The vehicles have relocated. The Drive, Erleigh Court Gardens, Byron Road, Crescent Road and Milton Road are particularly badly affected, with vehicles parked both sides of the road and on the pavements.  It should be noted The Drive is still on the bus route.

Plan L39

Change Request 1. :

a)Alternate Residents Parking Bays should be considered in The Drive in order to maintain two -way traffic. 

b)Residents Permits are needed in The Drive to prevent commercial vehicles from businesses located in other streets parking in The Drive.

Reason: The restrictions proposed in The Drive will not prevent vehicles parking nose to tail all the way up The Drive, effectively creating a single-lane one-way street.  This is not acceptable, particularly on a bus route. Commercial vans parked on the street and on the grass verges        currently obstruct safe views of residents exiting their driveways.

Change Request 2.:

Alternate Residents Parking Bays in Erleigh Court Gardens. Between The Drive and Milton Road, also in Milton Road

Reason: To prevent cars parking both sides of the street including the verges, thereby creating a one-way street.  To restrict on-street parking to residents and their visitors

Change Request 3:

To install single yellow lines opposite ‘T’ junctions to prevent parking between 0730 and 1830, at both ends of Byron Road, opposite the cul de sac in Byron Road and at the junction of Milton Road and Erleigh Court Gardens.

Reason: To prevent vehicles turning out of the T junctions in peak hours from finding a car speeding towards them on the wrong side of the road when passing parked vehicles

Change Request 4:

To install single yellow lines at a distance of greater than 15metres at the corner of Culver Lane and Palmerstone Road, with a 10-minute waiting time restriction.

Reason:  To provide short term parking for customers at the corner shop.  To provide an incentive to customers not to park within 15 metres of the corner which is the current unsafe practice due to lack of alternative parking.  To free up customer parking space in Palmerstone Road which is currently unrestricted and blocked by commercial vans for most of the day and evening