Yellow lines around Hampton Park

Plans are afoot to put double yellow lines at various points on Hampton Road, Hampton Park and the surrounding roads - see the map to the right and click on it to make larger.

I have been pushing for the Chandos Road junction to be done for a couple of years for safety and traffic flow improvements, so I'm happy to see this coming forwards.

The plan is also to limit parking at the junction of Ashgrove Road as there have been problems there with people blocking access, especially for emergency vehicles. The junction with Melville Road will also be done as there is a problem here with corner parking blocking lines of sight.

The main reason this is happening now is that the petrol station is having problems with parked cars blocking access for their tankers. Our very sensible and helpful local traffic engineer has added on the other improvements at the same time as a job-lot.

The formal consultation leaflet will be going out to local residents in the next couple of weeks, so people will have a chance to comment before anything happens.