Roads and Traffic

Priority 1: Roads and Traffic ( updated March 2009)

Focus of Activity

Strategy for Implementation

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Who will be responsible?

Where will the money come from?

Introduce speed restrictions in the area

Work in partnership with SCC Highways department and SY Police to:

i. Extend the boundaries of the 30 mph zone on major approach roads

ii. Reduce the speed limit in the centre of the village to 20 mph

Ongoing

SCC Highways

Modify and improve More Hall Lane/Sunny Bank Road

i. Request SCC Highways designate More Hall Lane as ‘unsuitable for large lorries’ and erect signage to that effect. (Request for speed restriction to 30mph and weight limit made to 1st Community Assembly held June 09.

ii. Work in partnership with SCC Highways, Yorkshire Water and the Woodland Trust to improve driver visibility and junction safety at the More Hall Lane / Manchester Road junction. (Petition of 160 names to SCC Highways committee submitted February ‘07 - decided that no funding is available for this junction - August ‘07. Late ‘07 part of road collapsed and whole road closed. June ‘08, Geotechnic report published. SCC take responsibility. Piles to go in to support upper bank and retaining wall. Work began early ‘09 - to finish end of April ‘09. Government Flood Fund financing work.

Ongoing

Appraisal Group/

SCC Highways

Increase enforcement of village parking restrictions

i. Present the results of the village appraisal to SY Police and work in partnership to devise a sustainable system for enforcing parking restrictions (recognising the heavy demand for SY Police resources in the area).( update - Meeting arranged with reps from SCC & Police for August 2006 - very little progress made!)

ii. Car Park?

Ongoing

Appraisal Group/ SY Police

SY Police

Improve village signage

Continue to liaise with SCC Highways department and our local Community Assembly to ensure new village signs are placed on major approach roads.

i. Update road name signs, to aid visitor and emergency service navigation of the area. (update - 3 new direction posts and 1 name plate on Heads Lane - ‘05. Walder’s Lane sign stolen and replaced by SCC Spring ‘06. £5000 awarded by YRCC for the erection of village boundary signs and SCC agree to take on insurance - July ‘06 - signs completed - Oct. ‘06. Finger posts erected giving direction to Bolsterstone on Mortimer Road, at the bottom of Moor Lane and at the junction of Coal Pit Lane and Stonemoor Road - early ‘08.New Bolsterstone sign with golf clubsigning at bottom of Carr Road

Spring ‘09.)

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Appraisal Group / SCC Highways

SCC Highways

Improve the maintenance of village roads.

i. Write to SCC Street Force to request an increase in the frequency of pavement, verge, and road edge clearing and maintenance. (mowing programme agreed ‘07)

ii. Create hard standing on Folderings Lane (next to 9/11)

(Cockshot Lane, Folderings Lane,and through village to Yew Trees Lane resurfaced, edge to edge, June ‘09. Collapsed drain outside Castlegreen repaired before work began.)

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SCC Highways

Increase the number of grit bins, especially in periphery locations

i. Identify a volunteer to co-ordinate an information gathering exercise about the desired location of any new grit bins.

ii. Present this information to SCC Highways department and request they act upon it. (update - site agreed & bin placed ‘05 - 4 new bins placed on Morehall Lane May ‘09)

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SCC Highways

Request the resurfacing of Morehall Lane and Yew Tree Lane

i. Present the village appraisal results to SCC Highways and request a walkabout to identify and record new pot holes.

ii. Work in partnership to pursue a long-term maintenance programme, including water drainage, to prevent further damage. (Update - some work done on Morehall Lane ‘05. Drainage work carried out April ‘06. Patching up took place June ‘07 - road collapsed Nov. ‘07 so currently closed! See note on item 2. Road repaire and resurfaced May 2009.)

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SCC Highways

Create a dropped kerb to assist disabled access to the area in front of the village hall.

i. This item put on a SCC list when we first set up as a group (2002). Discovered in 2007 that no progress has been made because there is an existing dropped kerb opposite the junction of Sunnybank Road so this gives us no priority. Since then we have been liaising with City Council in order to do the work ourselves - £400 awarded by NAP which we may put towards it if we can get permission etc. 1 quote received for £1,100 spring ‘08. Another one pending. Job organised and paid for by BCG to SCC specification - dropped kerb put in June ‘08.

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SCC Highways

Bolsterstone

Comunity G

Key: Appraisal Group = Bolsterstone Village Appraisal Group BCG = Bolsterstone Community Group

S CC = Sheffield City Council Stocks. TC = Stocksbridge Town Council