Newton Road ( Traffic Calming )

We are pleased that the construction works are now complete on Newton Road allowing much safer access to the local School.

In the next few weeks traffic regulation orders will be imposed on this road preventing cars being able to pull up or stop in this area during school hours.

This area has suffered form children being involved in accidents over a number of years now and we hope that these new measures will help prevent further accidents taking place.

Newton Road Traffic Calming

Bath & North East Somerset Council will soon be consulting on the alteration of traffic restrictions on Newton Road to go along with the proposed traffic calming that will be installed in the Autumn.

We will place links to the consultation on this blog.

We have badly needed traffic calming on this road for a long time now and we are pleased that the funding has been found to ensure that the safety of the children of this area has been placed as a priority.

Newton Road

We had a good meeting this morning with Highway officers and the headmaster of the Junior School concerning proposals for traffic calming on the road outside the school.

Plans will now be drawn up on a scheme to slow down traffic and make a safer crossing for children going into school in the morning and coming out at night.

The scheme when drawn up will then be consulted on with local residents before being installed later this year.


The money to pay for this scheme was in the Liberal Democrat capital budget which passed through council earlier this year.

Newton Road (traffic calming)

We are pleased to announce that in the budget this year we have managed to get the traffic calming of Newton Road by St Michaels junior school included.

The school has had a number of children knocked over in the last few years very close to the School and it is now time to get this matter resolved.

The planning and design of the traffic calming will take place over the next few months prior to installation later in this financial year.

We will publish links to the developing plans as soon as they arrive and ensure that adequate consultation takes place with local residents and the school.