Issue - meetings
Petition from residents of Langholme Drive regarding parking issues and access for emergency vehicles
Meeting: 15/01/2007 - Executive Members for City Strategy and Advisory Panel (Item 90)
PDF 908 KBA petition from 78 residents who live in Langholme Drive, Acomb, York was presented to the Council on 13 November 2006. The petition asks that the Council look at the verges in the street, the footpath, and the width of the road and to carry out improvement works which will make access and egress of the street easier for vehicular traffic. Members are asked to consider the options outlined in the report and approve the recommendation.
Additional documents:
Decision:
Advice of the Advisory Panel
That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to adopt Option 3; to prepare a further report and a comprehensive policy on access/parking issues in narrow streets in the City.
Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy
RESOLVED: That the Advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.
REASON: So that the petition can be considered in relation to other similar streets in the City.
Minutes:
Members considered a report which informed them of a petition received from 78 residents who live in Langholme Drive, Acomb, York, which was presented to Council on 13 November 2006. The petition asked that the Council look at the verges in the street, the footpath, and the width of the road and that it carry out improvement works which would make access and egress of the street easier for vehicular traffic.
Photographs of the street were circulated at the meeting for Members information.
The report presented four options:
Option 1: Widen the existing footways to 2.0m. This would leave a verge width of 1.9m and the road, untouched at 5.0m;
Option 2: Widen the existing footways to 2.0m and block pave the verges. The existing kerbs would be removed and replaced with a channel to allow vehicles to easily run onto the block paving. The footway would be protected by a 'pin' kerb;
Option 3: Prepare a further report and a comprehensive policy on access/parking issues in narrow streets for Members to consider and approve in the future;
Option 4: Consider parking restrictions on one or both sides of the road.
Advice of the Advisory Panel
That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to adopt Option 3; to prepare a further report and a comprehensive policy on access/parking issues in narrow streets in the City.
Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy
RESOLVED: That the Advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.
REASON: So that the petition can be considered in relation to other similar streets in the City.