Village News
ZIPPING IN: Alvechurch parish councillors, supporters and village youngsters celebrate the installation of a 30-metre zip wire and other play and exercise equipment on The Meadows playing fields close to the village centre. The equipment was paid for using a contribution from the developer of a housing estate in the village.
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VILLAGERS are being asked to come up with ideas that could solve the growing parking problems across Alvechurch. It is hoped a solution will also help
PARKING PLIGHT PLEA
to reduce traffic volume and speeds through the village centre. Streets are becoming clogged as the number of cars per household increases, with driveways only having room for one vehicle. Sometimes there are whole streets with no driveways but two or three cars per household. The problems is particularly acute near the station as better train services attract more commuters, but
the station car park cannot cope, push- ing the problem on to the surrounding streets. District councillor
Kate Van Der Plank (right) has launched an urgent call for ideas. “Rather than looking at this piecemeal, on a street-by-street basis, we need to look across the whole village, otherwise we’ll just push the problem from one road to the next,” said Coun Van Der Plank. “I would be in favour of much more street parking in the village centre
Mystery of the Lickey latch
CHURCHWARDENS in Lickey are baffled by the disappearance and return of the latch on the gate to the cemetery extension. When it was discovered to be missing, a
replacement was ordered at a cost of £100 – but a few days later the original reappeared, with new nuts holding it in place. “We thought the latch had been stolen, but
why would anybody want an insignificant piece of metal?” said churchwarden Nick Forknell. “Perhaps it just fell off when somebody used
it, and they took it away in order to fix it? Either way, we are very grateful it’s been put back.”
by removing double yellow lines and thinking about traffic flow, parking bays, and direction of parking. “I think this would have the added benefit of slowing traffic down through the village centre and encouraging through traffic to use the bypass rather than choosing ‘the scenic route’ through the village.” The search for ideas is backed by
county councillor Charlie Hotham and Alvechurch Parish Council. A meeting is being held this month be- tween the councillors and represen- tatives of Worcestershire Highways to consider ways forward. Ideas received so far by Coun Van
Der Plank include having “horizontal” parking, similar to outside the Village Hall, on some wider village roads, such as along Swan Street. This would create a large number of parking spaces and, by narrowing the road, act as a traffic calming measure. It has also been pointed out that
any residential parking permits, such as those investigated for Bear Hill, would have to be introduced across the whole village so the problem would not just be pushed to the next street. Anyone with any suggestions can email:
kate.vanderplank@bromsgroveand
redditch.gov.uk
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