Should there be traffic calming in the Grovelands?

Is it possible that Wilts Council carried out a consultation on a Warminster housing estate without informing the Town Council? 

At last night's Planning Advisory Committee councillors

were concerned that they had not been aware of, nor involved in,

a consultation carried out by Wiltshire Council to reconsider a need for traffic calming  measures on the Grovelands

Estate.  

The Grovelands estate will be linked into the new Victoria Fields development currently under construction by Persimmon Homes Wessex.  

"The traffic calming measures were proposed to stop people using Grovelands estate roads as a rat run into town," said Town Clerk Heather Abernethie." We have been told that only two people responded to the survey and both did not want the measures.  One was a resident and one was from a bus company - but we have nothing on record about this survey."

Last night councillors

resolved that the Traffic Calming measures should not be removed until the

results of Wilts Council's consultation  were known and an evaluation

of their removal been received.

If you were one of those taking part in the Grovelands consultation,  the Council would like to hear from you: 01985 214487 or www.warminster.uk.com.

 

 

 

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For more information contact Heather

Abernethie, Town Clerk, Warminster Town Council, Tel:  01985 214847. 

email: admin@warminster-tc.gov.uk