Update on Salisbury and Carnarvan Rd

I have recieved this response with regard to the pavements and the parking scheme in Salisbury and Carnarvan Rd

Under the Department for Transport criteria for best practice in highway maintenance, footways are categorised for inspection and maintenance ranging from category 1: Primary Walking Routes, in busy shopping and business areas and main pedestrian routes to Category 4: Local Access Footways, associated with low usage, short estate roads and cul-de-sacs. Salisbury Road is a Category 4 footway, which only receives an annual safety inspection from which any hazardous defects would be repaired.

The Council's limited budget for footway maintenance is concentrated towards the maintenance of Category 1 and 2 footways only, i.e. main pedestrian routes, shopping areas and schools.

I will draw your concerns about the condition of Salisbury Road to the attention of the Portfolio Holder.

The first public consultation to gauge demand on the proposed residents parking permit schemes for the Lytton Road Area Zone and the Salisbury Road/Carnarvon Road Zone went out to residents and the (former) Ward Councillors on 27 March 2007 with a return date of 30 April 2007. We are currently assessing the results to determine the details of a scheme that is best fitted to the needs of the residents for a second round of consultation with the residents at the end of June. Support for the proposals by the residents will lead to a Decision Notice signed by the Portfolio Holder by mid-September approving the final schemes . Advertisement and statutory consultation on the Traffic Regulation Orders to introduce the residents parking permit schemes would start in October, leading to a Decision Notice reporting the outcome in mid-December. And finally, the implementation of the schemes would be January/February 2008.

As you can see, the consultation and statutory processes involved with these schemes is particularly onerous.