Traffic warden call is one of the top comments
Tuesday, 17th September 2013.
The direct public consultation element of last week’s series of events held by Suffolk County Council about the future of the high street took place at a stall in Saturday’s market, and produced a widespread call for there to be a traffic warden again.
The call is unlikely to be heeded because Suffolk County Council dispensed with all its traffic wardens a few years ago as a matter of policy.
After Wednesday’s brainstorming session among stakeholders, a consultation event with local school students, and an online questionnaire, the project organizers brought all the suggestions to a market stall display for everyone to comment on.
Comments ranged from constructive and supportive ideas, many focused on closing the Swan Lane-Camps Road link, to a more radical ‘knock it all down and start again’.
All the comments will now be put into a report which will help inform the council’s decisions in the future about whether to pedestrianise the street or not, and how to regulate traffic and parking around the town centre.
The recent priority-setting meeting of the town’s Safer Neighbourhood Team once again forced police to tackle illegal parking in the high street and speeding down it, taking up two of the constabulary’s three priorities for the next three months.
Work has already begun, with PCSOs using speed guns to research where speeding is most prevalent, and officers beginning again to issue warnings to motorists parked illegally.
A full-time traffic warden, possibly employed by the town council, has been suggested many times, but it cannot happen unless the county council decriminalizes parking in the area and makes it a civil matter, which it has so far been unwilling to do anywhere in Suffolk.
The call is unlikely to be heeded because Suffolk County Council dispensed with all its traffic wardens a few years ago as a matter of policy.
After Wednesday’s brainstorming session among stakeholders, a consultation event with local school students, and an online questionnaire, the project organizers brought all the suggestions to a market stall display for everyone to comment on.
Comments ranged from constructive and supportive ideas, many focused on closing the Swan Lane-Camps Road link, to a more radical ‘knock it all down and start again’.
All the comments will now be put into a report which will help inform the council’s decisions in the future about whether to pedestrianise the street or not, and how to regulate traffic and parking around the town centre.
The recent priority-setting meeting of the town’s Safer Neighbourhood Team once again forced police to tackle illegal parking in the high street and speeding down it, taking up two of the constabulary’s three priorities for the next three months.
Work has already begun, with PCSOs using speed guns to research where speeding is most prevalent, and officers beginning again to issue warnings to motorists parked illegally.
A full-time traffic warden, possibly employed by the town council, has been suggested many times, but it cannot happen unless the county council decriminalizes parking in the area and makes it a civil matter, which it has so far been unwilling to do anywhere in Suffolk.
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