Road Safety around Schools – Whitehill Primary School

Overview

The Council’s overall strategic transport ambition is to increase the number of children walking or cycling to school, both to reduce congestion on roads, improve local air quality, and improve health outcomes. For this to be achieved, it is important that walking or cycling to school is a safe option for children and their families.

To support this ambition, Traffic Services have been working to tackle key concerns which have been raised by schools and local Members. 

The following improvements have been identified surrounding Whitehill Primary School: (see enclosed plan 0305/60/WH/000 rev A & 0305/60/WH/001 rev A:

• Introduction of a No Loading restriction to apply (Monday to Friday 8.30am - 9.30am and 2.30pm – 4.00pm), to the existing No Waiting ‘At Any Time’ restrictions (Double Yellow Lines), on Selby Street (from Bournville Rd towards the school), Kingsley Avenue and Park Bridge Close. These restrictions are proposed to keep these stretches of carriageway clear of parked vehicles at school drop-off and pick-up times, improving safety for pedestrians and vehicles navigating their way through the area.
• Introduction of a further School Keep Clear Marking on Whitehill Street West, east side of the school entrance (Monday to Friday 8.00am - 5.00pm) These restrictions are proposed to keep these stretches of carriageway clear of parked vehicles, improving safety for pedestrians.
• To extend the existing School Keep Clear Markings on Selby Street to cover the whole stretch of corner These restrictions are proposed to keep these stretches of carriageway clear of parked vehicles at school drop-off and pick-up times, improving safety for pedestrians who currently must navigate cars parked on the pavement, and vehicles struggling to manoeuvre around the corner due to inconsiderate parking.
• Extension of No Waiting ‘At Any Time’ restrictions (Double Yellow Lines) at the junction of Bournville Avenue and Selby Street,
• Introduction of No Waiting ‘At Any Time’ restrictions (Double Yellow Lines) at the junctions of Bournville Avenue with Horace Grove and Kingsley Avenue with Horace Grove to keep these junctions clear of parked vehicles, protecting intervisibility between pedestrians and motorists whilst also ensuring vehicles can negotiate the junctions safely.
• Provision of an uncontrolled crossing point with tactile paving and bollards across Bournville Avenue junction with Selby Street to aid pedestrians.
• Provision of Middleton bollards at Park Bridge Close crossing point to the eastern side only to improve safety for pedestrians who currently have to navigate cars parked on the pavement and restricting visibility of pedestrian using the crossing point.
• Provision of pencil bollards outside the entrances of the school on Selby Street, both sides to keep the area clear of cars to enable crossing at this point and further pencil bollards at the staff vehicle entrance on Whitehill Street West to prevent vehicles from pulling up on the footway at the footpath to aid crossing facilities at these locations.
• Introduction of a ONE-WAY system through Kingsley Avenue onto Selby Street to the junction with Park Bridge Close with associated road markings and signage.
• Introduction of No Waiting ‘At Any Time’ restrictions (Double Yellow Lines) at the junction of Horace Grove and (A6188) Manchester Road. These restrictions are proposed to keep these stretches of carriageway clear of parked vehicles, improving safety for pedestrians at the crossing point convenience store/post office and vehicles navigating their way through the area.

Please view the plan here:

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WHITEHILL PRIMARY PROPOSALS 1

WHITEHILL PRIMARY PROPOSALS 2

Please could you spend a few minutes to consider the issues and let us have your feedback on the proposals. Please include any comments you may wish to make on the proposal by completing the online survey by 23:59 hours on Tuesday 1st October 2024.