(Access to Information Procedure Rules – Part 3B of the Constitution)

To hear questions from electors within the District on any matter this is the responsibility of the Committee. 

Questions must be received in writing by the City Solicitor in Room 112, City Hall, Bradford, BD1 1HY, by mid-day on Monday 1 April 2019.

(Palbinder Sandhu - 01274 432269)

In accordance with the provision at Part 3B, Paragraph 6 of the Council’s Constitution the following public question was presented:

“I’m here today to ask if you will support my request for promoting a Traffic Regulation Order which would allow for double yellow lines to be placed outside the properties at Sunny Dale on Keighley Road in Denholme.

These properties, which don’t have garages, border the very busy and narrow A629 road which runs through Denholme.  It’s a road with approximately 15,000 vehicles passing through it every day.

The pavement outside these properties is also very narrow, and nothing like the required width for pavements built today.  The owners of cars at Sunny Dale park them partly on the pavement and partly on the road.  The problems with this are two-fold.  First, even one car parked there disrupts the free flow of traffic passing by, meaning that vehicles heading in the Keighley direction have to stop behind the car so as to allow vehicles in the opposite direction, going towards the village of Denholme, to pass by.  This happens on a daily basis.

Secondly, the parking of cars on the pavement there also means that pedestrians no longer have full access to the pavement and, even when two people are walking together, they have to walk single file past these cars.  It would be very difficult for those with pushchairs and in wheelchairs to get by at all.  I have, on odd occasions had to walk in the road to get past these properties, and I know that a motorised wheelchair owner has had to do the same one, which means he would have been driving on the road in the opposite direction to oncoming traffic from Denholme towards Keighley.  This extremely dangerous situation should never have to happen since lives are in danger.  One car owner there parks his car at an angle so that the front end of his car covers much more of the pavement than the back end of it.  This is because he’s had so many wing mirrors smashed, and this demonstrates just how unsafe the cars are while parked there.

The landlord at The New Inn pub told me recently that the car owners at Sunny Dale have been offered parking spaces for £5 per week at the Black Bull car park, the Black Bull having been demolished many years ago.  Car owners who live opposite that car park at Blue Hill which also borders the A629 do park there, as do cricket club members during the cricket season.  It appears the residents at Sunny Dale have declined this offer.  The landlord at The New Inn has also had problems with those at Sunny Dale parking on his car park, and he’s now forbidden it.

So far, although I’ve complained to the police about this, all I’m told is that they’ll monitor the situation, but there has been no change.  I’ve also approached Highways at Bradford Council who say it’s the responsibility of the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 61