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Planners take calming plan off the road



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Published Date: 14 August 2008
TRAFFIC calming measures which were supposed to be installed by a developer eight years ago will no longer be required, the council has decided.
Heriot Developments was instructed in 2000 to put parking bays, yellow lines and traffic calming measures on to Lanark Road and Kingsknowe Park as part of a housing development in Longstone.

The measures were a condition of the planning approval granted for its development of 42 houses on the site of a former car showroom and garage, after local residents raised concerns about the traffic impact of the scheme.

Despite residents' repeated requests, the measures were never installed, and now the council's planning committee has agreed to scrap the condition.

The decision follows a report from the council's transport department, which indicated that the double yellow lines, parking bays and traffic calming measures were no longer required.





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  • Last Updated: 14 August 2008 10:37 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Edinburgh planning issues
 
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Dileas,

14/08/2008 12:35:48
Good to see for once that Edinburgh will not take ANY opportunity to obstruct the city's streets with what they euphemistically call "traffic calming", a tool of the hard left that used to rule the city. Before it was sacked in May 2007.

Is this the first shoot of a change of policies by the new LibDem/SNP alliance? Let's hope so - we didn't sack the last lot to have it replaced by a group that had no better notion of how to run a city.

 

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