Lower Bristol Road Parking

In March this year we met with Highways officers to discuss options for restricting parking and making crossing the Lower Bristol Road safer. 

We discussed the option of putting in additional parking bays and restricting the parking on the rest of this stretch of road with double yellow lines as per the plan below.

We have responded to these options stating that we do not think parking opposite the turning into the bus depot is suitable and also asked for costings for a light controlled crossing to be installed.

The risk of not putting in any additional parking on this stretch of road would mean there is even more opportunity of speeding on a wide open road.

We have chased up progress on this as we feel it is now become an urgent issue and does meet the criteria for improving walking routes.

We will provide a further update as soon as we have received an up to date response from the Highways team.

Sheridan Road Planning Applications

This week there are 2 planning applications for Twerton.

2-20 Sheridan Road

102-132 Sheridan Road

These have both been submitted by Curo to install new Bin stores for the flats on Sheridan Road. We have been asking for Curo to sort the issues that are regularly experienced when the black bags are piled outside the flats and are hopeful this will solve the problem.

 

Rosewarn Park - Update

Following the residents survey that Tim and Sarah carried out in 2019, a number of improvements were requested to make the Rosewarn Park area more useable for all ages.

Requests from more seating and new play equipment through to all weather sports pitch were put forward and we have been working with Curo and the Council to get funding in place to make improvements.

Tim and Sarah are delighted to announce they now have funding signed off to install a Multi Use Games Area (MUGA), which will have a low level fence around it with both football goals and basketball hoops in place.  They are hopeful the funding will be released at the end of November and will then work to arrange a suitable installation date. 

Councillor Tim Ball said “Unfortunately, this project has been delayed due to the first lockdown and staff availability, but we are pleased it is now progressing”.

This is the first stage of improvements that we are working on with Curo to try and get this whole area back in use. 

Curo are arranging for the old, broken equipment in the play area to be removed and are working with local youth groups to discuss with the younger members of the community to see what they would like in it's place.

We will confirm when the work is scheduled to install the MUGA and when further improvements have been agreed.