Redland Park/Day Crescent - resurfacing work

Tim Ball and Sarah Moore have been campaigning for a number of years to get the roads and footpaths across Twerton and Whiteway to be reviewed and resurfaced, where required. Last year Tim and Sarah committed to ensuring these reviews would take place and plans put in place to action the findings.  

We are now happy to confirm that the one way section of Redland Park that runs behind Day Crescent, from the entrance by the One Stop Shop on Newton Road right around to the exit by Pennyquick View will be resurfaced on 9th - 10th July.  

This will mean that access to the road will not be available for 2 days whilst the work takes place, however, we are looking at the arrangements to ensure the waste and recycling can be collected as usual on Friday 10th July and also what can be done about access to the main housing area of Redland Park during this time.

Obviously, this work may cause a minor inconvenience for some during this time, but the road has not been touched for so long the work is necessary and residents patience during this work would be appreciated.

If you want to discuss this or other issues in your area, please do contact us.

Day Crescent

We are working with Curo in an attempt to stop vehicles entering the footpath around Day Crescent.

Some time ago the hedge was removed when Curo renovated the houses that they owned around Day Crescent.

We are working with Curo and will soon be talking to More Trees for Bath about implementing a solution to this situation.

Day Crescent rear road / Redland Park

We have again written to the council complaining about the condition of the road that runs to the rear of Day Crescent that was not resurfaced when the rest of Redland Park was done.

The surface of this road is in a terrible condition and needs to be completely resurfaced and not just given a surface dressing as has happened in the past.

It seems that this councils answer is to just patch up these concrete roads with a big of tarmac that does not work.

We have explained to them that the surface needs to be completely broken up like we had done on Newton Road a number of years ago and the broken up concrete used as hard core to save costs when resurfacing.

Newton Road/Day Crescent

Curo have agreed to request their contractor to remove the skips that were used by the roofing contractor whilst installing new roofs on the houses on Day Crescent.

Residents started complaining to us that the contractors had completed their work over 2 weeks ago but the skips remained.

We are pleased at the quick response to our request to Curo as these skips had started to look rather unsightly.

Working with Our Local Police Redland Park visit

It was a pleasure yesterday to be out in Twerton with Local beat Manager PC Adrian Secker and PCSO Nigel Penny working to resolve issues affecting local residents.

I know that some of you may say seeing me Pictured oposite flanked by Nigel left and Adge to the right that they have caught up with him at last but that is far from the case.

Whilst up in Redland Park we met many locals who came out for a chat and to tell us about issues of concern.

One good thing that I learnt is that the motorcycle problems that we had in last year are a thing of the past.

The issue of the poor resurfacing was raised by several local residents pictured with myself and Nigel Penny.

I have now seen first had the problems that have been caused by the road humps with the poor finishing of the road surface.

I have now written to the Cabinet member of Highways asking for an investigation on why this has been left in such a poor state, and asking for the the contractors to come back and finish the Job.

I have also raised the issue of whether the contractor has actually resurfaced the correct area as the part of Redland Park that has been surfaced is not the area that I expected to see done.

The area leading to Redland Park behind Day Crescent is particularly bad and I was expecting to see this done instead.

I am hoping to carry out regular trips out into Twerton over the coming months with the Police taking with local residents.

by Councillor Tim Ball

Day Cressent reverts back to one way

The Temporary two way traffic on Day Crescent has reverted back to one way traffic now that the building works on the new houses at Pennyquick View are nearing completion.

Residents and visitors are reminded that this road is still a 20mph speed limit and we will be asking for the signs to be updated as one has been removed.