This month has had a real emphasis on local highways issues, indeed I spent a morning with a County Council Highways engineer visiting key locations around the locality.  Specific issues that we discussed are described below

Hevingham:

We met representative from Hevingham Parish Council and discussed the following:

The crossing on the A140 from the Street, this is now in the top 20 priorities for assessment, against a list of over 200 highways issues that require specialist assessment.  The case for action is weakened because thankfully no injuries have occurred, in the last five years, at this junction.  However if all schools that have students using buses here identify this as a key crossing for the bus stops, this will help the case

Westgate Street, the Parish Council have been asked to get local residents views on the possibility of a one way system

The engineer was advised that the promised No Entry sign for the lay-by near the church has not yet been implemented

Stratton Strawless

We met the Chair of the Parish council and other representatives:

We discussed the crossing to the bus stop, outside the Hall, there have been no recorded accidents at this junction, in the last five years, and therefore this location has been allocated a lower priority but is now on the list for assessment from Highways specialists

Parish Road Bridge spraying has been completed in order to keep vigorous woody plant growth under control.  This has been successful, although there was some feedback that it might have been done earlier for aesthetic reasons.

The engineer has also visited and reviewed key locations with the Spixworth Parish Clerk

St Faiths,  I have again received complaints about parking in proximity to the school and crematorium.  However the engineer has advised that as people are only able to park on the school side of the road, this causes a general self regulation of speed due to the parking which generally slows traffic down.  Time based flashing lights were discussed, but have not proved very successful elsewhere

Frettenham, an innovative solution has been found to provide affordable school transport for children attending Broadland High School where this is their choice, but not their allocated school and therefore the provision of school transport is not strictly the responsibility of the County Council 

I will continue to keep you updated on this and other highways issues