At Monday’s Ventnor Town Council meeting, councillors expressed their concerns over the positioning of a proposed loading bay outside the new Tesco Express shop on the High Street.
The local council had been invited to comment on the revised Traffic Order by the Isle of Wight council (as reported previously).
The plans had previously been rejected by the former town council in 2007, when the late Brenda Lawson told councillors, “I resent the attitude from the planning officers” over the matter.
“An accident waiting to happen”
Safety concerns were the main thrust of the opposition to the loading bay which councillors say sits the wrong side of a new pedestrian crossing.
With traffic passing from the High Street and Spring Hill on one side, as well as traffic exiting from Market Street and the central car park on the other, with a pedestrian crossing wedged in between, Cllr Harry Rees said the new road plans were, “an accident waiting to happen”.
It was unanimously resolved that Ventnor Town Council:
- regards the proposals as unsafe and re-iterates the concerns of its 2007 predecessor Town Council about them;
- proposes that if the scheme proceeds as planned, a 20mph limit be implemented throughout the town’s central areas; and
- asks that it be made clear that the use of the layby is open to vehicles delivering to all High Street shops and premises.
