Missing link

I have been contacted in recent weeks by residents of Clearwater Park regarding the grass verges in Linlathen Road, which are maintained by the council.

 

There are no properly surfaced areas there for people to cross between Clearwater Park and Ferryfields, which results in them having to walk through the nearly always wet grass. The grass has to be kept to a certain height for the swales that are in operation there.

 

 I have been in touch with both the council’s environment department regarding management of the swales and its roads network team to see if anything can be done to provide a suitable hard standing crossing point. The council agreed that there appears to have been an omission from the original masterplan in terms of connectivity between the housing areas and the head of roads and transportation is to be arranging for one of his engineers to look at a simple solution to bridge the gap.

 

The funding for cycling, walking and safer streets projects is fully committed for this year so it is likely to be the next financial before anything is in place. I will push for early implementation of any solution and ask that local residents have input into where the crossing point should be located.