Sheridan Road/Long Valley Road Lane

After numerous telephone calls and emails, we are really pleased to confirm the lane between Sheridan Road and Long Valley Road has finally been resurfaced and the hedges have been cut back and tidied up.

If you have any issues on your street that you would like Sarah and Tim to look into, please do get in touch.

North Way - Road resurfacing

We have had confirmation that following our successful campaign, North Way will be resurfaced this year.  A start date is yet to be confirmed, however, we are expecting this to be completed before October 2019.

We have asked that the work is completed out of term time, to minimise the disruption to the bus service as the road will need to be closed.

Diversions will be put in place and we will confirm the full details of this as soon as it has all been confirmed.

Safer Roads - Kelston View - Progress at last

Following the recent complaints raised and meetings that Local Campaigner Sarah Moore and Councillor Tim Ball have had with both Officers and Directors from Bath & North East Somerset concerning the poor state of repair of some of the roads across the area we have received the following response:

"The Principle Engineer Highway Maintenance has visited the site and identified a section of the carriageway at Kelston View Road that requires reconstruction and a section that is suitable for an overlay as part of a trial to improve the ride quality.  The general condition of most of the slabs is good but we will address the particularly bad section as part of next year's Structural maintenance programme."

They also stated:  "As Highway Authority, it is our duty to maintain the highway for road users legally entitled to use the road."

Current condition of mid section of North Way

Whilst we are pleased our campaign appears to have made significant progress, we will not be reducing the pressure we are applying on the council until all poorly maintained roads across the area have actually been sorted.

If you have an issue in your street, please do get in touch with us.

Pennard & Cleeve Green.

We are pleased that after pressing for the surfacing of these Greens to be resurfaced for many years now that the council are in the process of slurry sealing these paths that will create a much better surface to walk on.

We are pressing for other paths in the area to be resurfaced in the area.

Redland Park

We have been working with Bath & North East Somerset Council to resolve the issues of how the resurfacing work was carried out in Redland Park.

Many residents have contacted us to say how unhappy they were with the work that was carried out.

After several lots of correspondence with council officers which seemed to be getting us nowhere I met an officer on site last week and was able to demonstrate to him what the problems were.
The issue of the tarmac being laid too close and uneven has caused many cars to ground out at the points of the speed tables.

We have now reached an agreement that these works will be rectified in the coming weeks.

The tarmac will be cut back and relayed in the approaches to the speed tables where the problem is being caused or where the surface has not been laid properly.

I hope that this will resolve these problems and

 have received assurances that if there are further problems these will also be dealt with.

I have no dates when this work will be carried out but am hopeful it wont be too long.

I will publish further details as and when they become available.





By Councillor Tim Ball