Speed concern tops town list
By Jo Deeks on Thursday, 3rd August 2000.
SPEEDING vehicles and lack of parking space are two of the main concerns identified so far in a major transport study taking place in Haverhill.
Jerry Massey, director of Planning and Transportation for St Edmundsbury Borough Council, told members of the Haverhill Partnership Group that consultation had shown these issues were considered most important, along with safe routes to school and reducing the number of heavy goods vehicles.
Mr Massey said Suffolk County Council had included Haverhill for the first time in its Local Transport Plan and the study was to establish priorities for transport schemes in the town. This work was still at a fairly early stage but a completed list would be brought back to the Partnership for comments in the future.
This year, £32,000 is available to the town, with part of it for a “safely to school” initiative at Burton End School and some to be used to design future schemes. Mr Massey said work identified so far would require an investment of around £500,000 and some of this could be provided by developers.
Borough and town councillor Larry Kiernan raised the problem of lorries parking overnight in the town and suggested a lorry park was needed. Mr Massey said there was a possibility of barring HGVs from some residential areas but no specific plan for a lorry park.
Mr Massey said the council would contribute to a feasibility study into a rail link with Cambridge but, in the short-term a fast-track bus link could be created.
Coun Phillip French raised the problem of buses and lorries using the narrow Crowland Road and Mr Massey replied that this was an area which cropped up again and again. Crowland Road would be looked at and a lorry management plan for the whole town could be one of the measures needed.
Jerry Massey, director of Planning and Transportation for St Edmundsbury Borough Council, told members of the Haverhill Partnership Group that consultation had shown these issues were considered most important, along with safe routes to school and reducing the number of heavy goods vehicles.
Mr Massey said Suffolk County Council had included Haverhill for the first time in its Local Transport Plan and the study was to establish priorities for transport schemes in the town. This work was still at a fairly early stage but a completed list would be brought back to the Partnership for comments in the future.
This year, £32,000 is available to the town, with part of it for a “safely to school” initiative at Burton End School and some to be used to design future schemes. Mr Massey said work identified so far would require an investment of around £500,000 and some of this could be provided by developers.
Borough and town councillor Larry Kiernan raised the problem of lorries parking overnight in the town and suggested a lorry park was needed. Mr Massey said there was a possibility of barring HGVs from some residential areas but no specific plan for a lorry park.
Mr Massey said the council would contribute to a feasibility study into a rail link with Cambridge but, in the short-term a fast-track bus link could be created.
Coun Phillip French raised the problem of buses and lorries using the narrow Crowland Road and Mr Massey replied that this was an area which cropped up again and again. Crowland Road would be looked at and a lorry management plan for the whole town could be one of the measures needed.
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