14Oct 2026
Release 2026-10-14.1
The trial, and first reports
A timed closure was agreed and tried from 7 September. Grace, Ruth and Tomasz have reported what they saw.
- Reworded
Narrowed to set times, with deliveries, residents and blue badge holders exempt. With that change, everyone accepted it.
Before
Close Willow Lane to cars at school times.NowWillow Lane closes to through traffic from 8:20 to 9:00 and from 2:50 to 3:30 on school days, with deliveries, residents and blue badge holders exempt.
- Added
What the closure, with somewhere else to park, should lead to.
- Added
Ruth's concern that traffic moves onto Mill Lane.
Some traffic moves onto Mill Lane while Willow Lane is closed.and 1 connection - Added
What has to happen first, and who does it.
17 statements and 13 connections
Willow Lane closes at school times from the first day of the autumn term.An experimental traffic order allows a six-month trial.A rota of trained volunteer marshals covers every school day.Residents have permits and know how the exemption works.The leisure centre sets aside forty morning spaces for parents.The street cannot close without a council traffic order.Someone has to put the barriers out and take them in twice a day.People who live on Willow Lane worry they will be shut in at school times.The leisure centre has not agreed to let parents park in the mornings.Dev drafts the experimental traffic order, with permits for residents, and opens the consultation.Grace writes to every family explaining the closure and the park-and-stride spot.Amara recruits marshals at the PTA meeting and sets up the rota.Dev counts traffic on Mill Lane for a week before the trial and a week into it.The traffic order and residents' permits are in place before the first day.Every family knows how the closure works before it starts.Two trained marshals are on duty every school day.We can see whether traffic moved onto Mill Lane.and 13 connections - Added
New proposals from Tomasz and Ruth, not yet accepted.
Tomasz opens a walk-up hatch selling coffee to parents on foot.Parents on foot stop at the bakery on their way home.The bakery keeps its morning trade.The pavement outside the bakery is too narrow for two buggies to pass.Children can cross Mill Road with a crossing patrol at both school times.and 4 connections - Disputed
Amara challenged the assumption that most morning customers arrive by car.
and 1 connection - Reports