A STRETCH of road outside Park Hall Academy is among the sites where Solihull Council will look to impose new traffic restrictions in the 12 months ahead.
Concerns have been flagged up about difficulties in Water Orton Road, Castle Bromwich, during the school-run, as well as all-day parking associated with staff and students.
Now the site is one of just 11 around the borough to be named as a priority in the local authority's programme of Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) for the year ahead.
The other locations in North Solihull set to receive attention in 2018/19 are Larch Croft/Coralin Close, Chelmsley Wood (where there are parking pressures associated with nearby Woodbrook House) and the Henbury Drive/Hawksworth Crescent junction on the same estate.
In total, Solihull Council's road chiefs compiled a dossier of 130 sites around the borough, where there had been some form of request for action to tackle a particular traffic issue; problem parking was far and away the most common issue.
From the sizeable number of requests, only 11 were put down as priorities for the 12 months ahead, with another 28 added to a reserve list, which could mean they are given future attention if money becomes available. The remainder - deemed to be the least urgent - were last week deleted from the programme on the grounds that that it is highly unlikely that there will be resources to implement a scheme in the foreseeable future.
Castle Bromwich councillor Ted Richards, cabinet member for transport and highways, defended the move on the grounds that he did not want to "mislead" the public into thinking the council would be able to deal with these matters within the next few years.
I wonder if it will be as "efficient" as the "improvement" by Morrisons at Castle Bromwich? Park Hall is a problem at end of school but I am not aware that staff park on the road. The school has a very big car park. So I suggest that the Council thinks very carefully about the proposed work here.
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