Dear Residents,
In 2016 a Road Safety Assessment was carried out for the roads in Little Aston Park, a copy of which can be downloaded from the LAPRA Residents Portal.
This assessment highlighted a number of safety concerns such as blind bends, no protection for pedestrians and inappropriately high vehicle speeds in our park.
Recommendations were given for future improvements such as traffic pinch points, improved signage, creating additional footways and implementing street lighting. We have already started to implement some of these recommendations.
Whilst we believe that perimeter gating will reduce the amount of traffic using the roads and in turn reduce the number of speeding vehicles, pedestrian safety on our roads still needs to be addressed. Especially when we expect the number of pedestrians using the roads to increase once perimeter gating is in place.
Last month we announced that we would be installing bollards at the junction of Park Drive and Roman Road in order to offer a ‘safe area’ for pedestrians when rounding this corner. This safe area would tie in with the existing wooden pedestrian gate already present at this junction.
However, we postponed this work based on feedback received from our announcement.
Having listened to this feedback and researched other potential solutions, we believe we have found more aesthetically pleasing options compared to bollards when space is available to us.
With that said, due to the small foot print of each bollard and the level of protection they offer, they are the best and only option available to us at the corners of junctions.
Therefore, following the vote held recently in which cast iron bollards were the preferred choice by residents, we have again arranged for the bollards to be installed on the corner of Park Drive and Roman Road. This work will be carried out on Friday the 9thAugust, the full details of which will be the same as previously announced.
We will also be putting together proposals for carrying out similar work on other blind bends within the park.
Regards,
