Venue: Charville Primary School, Bury Avenue, Hayes, Hillingdon UB4 8LF. View directions
Contact: Nikki O'Halloran
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To confirm that the business of the meeting will take place in public.
Minutes:
RESOLVED: That all
items be considered in public.
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Charville Primary School - Petition Requesting Road Safety Measures in the Roads Around the School PDF 72 KB
Additional documents:
Minutes:
Councillor Beulah East
attended the meeting and spoke as a Ward Councillor in support of
the petition.
Concerns, comments and suggestions raised by petitioners included
the following:
- Letters
from former Year 6 pupils had been submitted in the 2010/2011
school year to Councillor Burrows expressing concern regarding road
safety around Charville Primary School;
- Petitioners noted that there had been an increase in the number
of people involved in accidents or near-misses in the vicinity of
the school over the last couple of years;
- As there
were so few crossings on the route to Charville Primary School,
pupils were having to walk quite a long way down the road before
they were able to cross the road;
- A boy had
recently been knocked over by a motorcyclist – there had been
three accidents in the last six months.
Although not seriously injured, one had been a pupil at Charville
Primary School and two had been students at local secondary
schools;
- As some
drivers and cyclists found it difficult to slow down on Charville
Lane, there was an increased risk of hitting a pedestrian that
stepped out in the road in front of them without looking;
- The
majority of incidents had occurred in the busy periods before
school started and after it finished and had involved buses or
parents picking up their children from the School. The busy periods were compounded by the fact that
Abbotsfield and Swakeleys schools both started and finished at the
same time as Charville Primary School;
- The roads
were already quite narrow so, when cars parked there, it interfered
with the flow of traffic and increased congestion. This was particularly noticeable when it involved
a bus or when two buses tried to pass each other;
- Drivers
had been seen to block the residents’ driveways with their
inconsiderate parking;
- Parking
for residents in the flats in the area was already thought to be
limited;
- There had
been a number of road rage incidents in the area where drivers
would not concede;
- One of
the petitioners usually took 45 minutes to travel home from school
on the bus. On one occasion it had
taken him 2 hours as vehicles had been parked inconsiderately and
drivers had not been prepared to concede to oncoming traffic and
therefore blocked the road and caused a huge traffic jam;
- Some
pupils were crossing the road behind buses which was deemed to be
dangerous;
- As
Charville Primary School had increased in size, there had also been
an increase in the number of vehicles and buses operating in the
area; and
- It was
suggested that the following measures be considered:
- installation of speed bumps;
- installation of a crossing – preferably towards the middle
of Charville Lane at the junction with Romney Road;
- installation of speed cameras;
- installation of traffic lights;
- installation of cycle lanes;
- a
reduction in the speed limit;
- erection
of signage to remind drivers of the speed limit;
- repainting of the zigzag lines outside the school; and
- installation of double
yellow lines in ...
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