School Road, Woodbridge Road and Somerfield Supermarket, Moseley

I had an on-site meeting today with Transportation Engineers to come to an agreement on a number of issues that residents have raised with me. The issues were:

1) stopping cars driving along the pavement on School Road, between Blenheim Road and Cambridge Road
2) removing the one-hour parking limit on Woodbridge Road
3) stopping Somerfield Supermarket in Moseley leaving all their trolleys on the pavement.

1. stopping cars driving along the pavement on School Road, between Blenheim Road and Cambridge Road

This is a long running issue, for which I have reached the end of my tether with the Highways Department and doing ‘nothing’ is no longer acceptable.

What was agreed was to raise the kerb to modern height levels – at the moment the kerb is less than an inch high and cars freely drive along this pavement. The kerb will only be raised between Cambridge Road and the doctors surgery. The kerb can’t be raised in front of the doctors surgery since it would partially block two air bricks in the surgery. Two railings will instead be erected here instead.

The cost of doing this will be between £5000 and £6000 and this will be sought from the Vulnerable Users budget – this is being discussed at tomorrow nights District Committee.

2. removing the one-hour parking limit on Woodbridge Road

Woodbridge Road has a one hour waiting limit between Trafalgar Road and Church Road. Usually one hour restrictions are used for shoppers, however no shoppers use this stretch of Woodbridge Road and it is normally completely empty. The residents of The Hawthorns and Laburnum Grove have asked if it could be removed.

It was agreed to completely remove the single yellow lines on the north side of Woodbridge Road between Church Road and the police station.

The cost of doing this will be £2000 and money will now need to be identified.

3. stopping Somerfield Supermarket in Moseley leaving all their trolleys on the pavement.

Somerfield Supermarket is presently using the pavement to store their trolleys. Normally this would be acceptable if the pavement was wide enough. However, the pavement is not wide enough here and the Store Manager will now be contacted and told to stop this practice.