At planning committee this afternoon one of the proposed developments on Station Road came up again. I was very pleased to see that the planning officers had now inserted a requirement that no major work on the site could start until the developers had come up with a traffic management plan to control the construction vehicles and how they access the site.
But I said that the Highways people still seemed remarkably unconcerned at the volume of traffic that Station Road will now have to contend with. I said that the village youth council - when asked what was it that concerned them - had replied that cars, traffic and the way people park is an issue for them - and especially along Station Road. Often young people are on bikes or walking to get the train into Cambridge, while the commuters are gunning their cars down the road to make the 0755, slaloming round the cars of the commuters who have already parked along what used to be a very tranquil road.
I questioned why the Highways Authority had not expressed a view on the additional 38 cars that Station Road is going to have to cope with from this site alone - not to mention the one a bit further down.I will take this up with the HA. But at least we have a traffic management plan.
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