Long Ashton Village

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The motor car is destroying the village feel of Long Ashton by antisocial speeding and ubiquitous parking. Cars will reamin part of village life for many years to come, however schemes can be introduced to encourage walking and pedestrain safety. For example, at strategic locations and busy junctions, speed tables can be incorporated which can be designed to resemble mini town squares. The added benefit would be toincrease the village feel at many locations along the Weston/Long Ashton Road. Finance for such schemes could be sourced from housing evelopers under a s106 planning agreement. (plan provided of possible scheme for block paving/coloured tarmac from Lovelinch Gardens , past the Co-op and the Pizzeria, and up Keedwell Hill as far as the doctors' surgery; with gentle ramps to slow down traffic; and extra seating near the bus shelters outside the dentists and the Tipple.)

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Concerned about traffic and speeding esp. on main road. Consider traffic calming measures at all entrances of village plus speed warning signs, cameras etc. but NOT speed bumps. Discourage lorries but SatNav is to blame here. Heavy plant for new development should avoid rush hour which it does not at present. Yellow lines not the answer - it clears the road and encourages speeding. How about zebra crossing near post-office? Availability of medical facilities needs reviewing especially in light of preventative medicine and wellbeing clinics being encourages. Keep the Greenbelt! S106 agreements bring little advantage and more grief than bebefit. Need to be stronger on large-scale developments.

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I would like to see the co-op shut at 8 p.m. every night. This would stop yob element. Also a speed camera near the co-op would greatly reduce the speed of some motorists who clearly do not abide by the limit through the village. I would like to see more community spirit. I would like to see more Christmas decorations, a Christmas tree lit up where the children could gather on Christmas eve and make their last Christmas wishes and maybe the guides could sing carols etc. This village has lost its magic - lets get it back please.

tagged with: christmas decorations environment nuisance behaviour shops speed cameras speeding

Shops area (Co-op) needs updating. Car park need lighting and tidying up. Parking on Weston Rd is dangerous, especially near zebra crossing. I feel vulnerable on my bicylce due to speeding cars - particularly on Wild Country Lane. Speed camera should be there and at Barrow Gurney as people use it as a rat run to the airport. Kids in the village need places to go and thing to do as they can cause a problem on streets. I feel intimidated at times walking to the shops. Iwould love to see a farmers market and allotments as I am a keen gardener.

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Priority to speed reduction through the village. I cannot stress this enough. Smartening up of shop part of village Moore unisex sporting opportunities for the teenagers. New scout hut

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Speed of traffic coming to new northleaze scool building from main raod is too fast partiularly taking into account the bends in the road. Speed limit could be reduce to 20mph, as near some other schools with warning signs.

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This respondent wrote against Q2.09 that I live "on the A38 - top of Yanley Lane" A38 - The higher volume of traffic on this road makes it more difficult to cross with tractor/LR & trailers etc. Dangerous in fact. Betwen the King's Road and Dundry lane there needs to be a 40mph limit and a speed camera. The bollards etc outside the Town and Country Lodge are better for the hotel but actually a hazard as speeding vehicles do not see them! Yanley Lane - This becomes more and more a rat-run where the speed of vehicles is frightening, there have been several accidents, (unreported some of them) The lane needs a speed limit. 30mph and a notice of how narrow it is. At the end of the lane the school signs do now slow the traffic down but - Glebe Road - at the top particularly is a nightmare with parked cars. There were double yellolines there before the re-surfacing but they have never been put back. They are desperately neede there. Back to the A38 - Between King's Head Inn and Dundry Lane has really become a dangerous stretch of road. More vehicles using the refreshment bar in the Collettes Brook Lay-by, added to the problem. In this particular stretch the A38 is not coping with the increased volume of traffic which is obviously being generated by the airport.

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A football pitch for juniors is a good idea but it would have to be protected from fouling by dogs and vandalism. Ths access from the new development on Weston Road (through the stone wall) encourages parking of vehicles along that stretch of road, which causes vehicles to cross into the path of oncoming traffic. This is dangerous and could well result in accidents. Speed cameras/radar will penalise law abiding drivers who inadvertently to the speed limit by 1 to 5 miles per hour, whilst not catching those who drive under the influence of drink or drugs.

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Would like spot checks by mobile cameras for speeding Questionnaire has drawn my attention to the communication available e.g LAPC website Yellow lines are too urban A map in the questionnaire would have been good to show locations mentioned. I do not know why Backwell pool is being closed - better to keep it open than build a new one.

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the current state of litter around the co-op is unacceptable. it should be the co-op's responsibility to the community to deal with this on a daily basis. the car park at the co-op is also an eyesore - this whole area so central to the village blights it - a great pity. it seems very unlikely that more businesses established in the village will reduce traffic, the opposite is likely when the offices/units start to be occupied on the Research station site. our main concerns regarding the village relate to: - car parking on roads; - cars speeding; - litter; - poor regulation of new developments -unsightly horadings, flags, etc on development sites - filthy roads from muddy vehicles; - future strain on village medical services with increased population; - the lack of a 'focus' on the main street - this should be at the co-op - but the whole area aorund lets the village down.

tagged with: green belt litter medical services parking speeding

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