Agenda item 6. Local Transport Strategy Implementation Plan 2024-2026

We shall be grateful if you will draw the following to the attention of the Committee.

1. We note the proposal on page 21 of the Implementation Plan to trial the development of ‘school streets’ and ‘home zone’ streets. Burton Stone Lane appears to qualify as a potential ‘school street’ because of the proximity of Clifton Green Primary School with access routes that involve children crossing Burton Stone Lane. It would also, we suggest, be eminently suitable for trialling as a ‘home zone’ or ‘low traffic neighbourhood’. There are active community groups and we believe a majority of residents would welcome an opportunity to participate in such trials.

2. We are pleased to see the proposal on page 34 of the Implementation Plan for reviewing the options for altering traffic movements on the western side of the York Inner Ring Road. The plan describes this as a quadrant bounded by Gillygate, Bootham, Clarence Street, Wigginton Road and Gillygate (the repetition of Gillygate may be an oversight perhaps?). We would like to see Crichton Avenue and Burton Stone Lane added to this description for completeness and also to ensure that all the major streets in the quadrant are included in the review. Burton Stone Lane is already a well-used thoroughfare with heavy traffic and could not easily cope with further increases as a result of displaced traffic from other streets. We ask that this be given due consideration in the proposed review.

Kind regards

Signed by 28 residents of Burton Stone Lane