Earlier this month The Association had a meeting with our Ward Councillors and other Resident Representatives from St James's Square, Cavendish Road, Cavendish Crescent, Somerset Place, Sion Hill/Summerhill Road, Sion Hill Place and Winifred's Lane. We provided evidence of the impacts (in non-Lockdown times) of increased traffic volumes (rat running), speeding on Cavendish Road and Winifred's Lane and finally violations of the width restriction TRO on Lansdown Crescent and Cavendish Road.
Our Councillors have taken all of this evidence and will be working with the Highways Officers to determine whether our area becomes a candidate for a trial Low Traffic Neighbourhood. If we are shortlisted there will be local consultation which residents will be invited to participate in later this year.
Many areas across Bath are seeking to participate in these trials, to protect their residential roads from speeding and rat running without displacing onto other residential roads. We think that this is an important consideration and have worked hard since our Summer AGM to work with our neighbouring Resident Associations and Councillors to provide the correct evidence for our area. We are now awaiting news from our Councillors regarding the first schemes in Bath or in BNES to be trialled with an Experimental Traffic Regulation Order.