ON
STREET PARKING NEAR THE GLOBE AND ENGLANDS CORNER (JUNCTION OF SILVER
STREET, NORTH STREET AND TURNPIKE)
As you may know the Parish Council has been looking at
ways to improve on street parking arrangements near the Globe and
England's Corner for some time. The goal has been to balance the
needs of residents without off street parking with the need to
maintain traffic flow particularly for buses.
The recent initiative to place hatching on the road
outside Bartletts has not been successful and, if anything has
encouraged parking on the narrow part of the road. The Parish Council
has therefore had a meeting with Somerset Highways to look at
alternative solutions and the only way forward seems to be to
restrict parking completely along the sections of road from Little
Bartletts towards Creedwell Orchard (see map).
At the lower end of North Street a single white advisory
line was painted some years ago with the hope that motorists would
not park too close to the junction. Unfortunately this has only been
intermittently successful and often buses find great difficult in
manoeuvring around the corner with Station Road. If this situation
continues there is a chance that the bus service will be removed
from the village and use the bypass instead. Again, the Parish
Council has discussed this with Somerset Highways and the only
solution would be for parking restrictions from a point opposite
Cardscroft down to the Silver Street junction (see map).
However,
before the Council formally contacts Somerset Highways to
increase parking restrictions in the village it would like your
views. If you have any thoughts about these proposals or maybe have
alternative suggestions the Parish Council would like to hear from
you. The Council will make its decision at its next meeting on 3rd
September so if you wish your view to be taken account please contact
the Clerk, Gwilym Wren in writing
by midday on the 3rd
at the address above or by email to gwilwren@aol.com
. The meeting is open to the public and you are welcome to hear the
debate..
Yours sincerely
Gwilym Wren
Clerk to Milverton Parish Council
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