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Traffic in Broomhill Broomhill Centre is a
major crossroads in the city's suburbs - busy with traffic
all day and particularly at rush hours. Traffic management
is a major issue for all local people using the shops and
other facilities in the centre. Pedestrian safety is our major priority. The new cycle track links to the University and City are entirely inadequate as they are used by parked cars outside the rush hours - the very time the majority of students and residents might want to use them because car, bus and lorry traffic is relatively light then. 
The new cyclewayNovember 2005
Traffic and Parking BANG has responded to proposals by the Council to change parking arrangements in Broomhill. Traffic and Parking There is an increasing problem of parking on the pavements throughout Broomhill. Traffic and Parking The Westbourne Road one-way system is scheduled for completion in July and, hopefully, the Residents’ Parking provisions should soon be implemented. The SUPERTRAM Proposal - has this all gone quiet? Has the threat gone away? The Western Bank & Whitham Road Improvement Project has not gone away. Travellers by bus and car will have noticed that work started on 11 June. The News S10 newsletter contained reminders of the main points raised as a result of the consultation process. How will the extended bus lane and new on-street parking restrictions be enforced? Is anything being done about the major cause of congestion, namely people trying to access Weston Park Hospital? Why the need for a 24-hour, 7 days a week, bus lane? Are any alternative parking arrangements being made following the increased parking restrictions? Are any provisions going to be made for pedestrians in the area? The main proposals have been divided into four implementation packages as follows: For worried travellers sources of information are: the website at www.citymatters.co.uk and the PLAN4 Transport in S10 information line on 0845 30 30 343. March
2004 A
landscape architect's impression of Endcliffe Vale
Road with the tramway infrastructure. This is an
optimistic view of what might result from the
proposal to route the Supertram extension to
Ranmoor. This route, it has been suggested, fails
to meet all the criteria for a safe, financially
viable, traffic reducing and flexible public
transport facility that is appropriate for a
conservation area. What do you
think? Phone 0845 634 6112 or contact
www.supertramextensions.com. December
2003 Broomhill
Traffic Flow Plans Are Given A Rough Ride -
this was the headline in the Sheffield Telegraph
of 26 November 2002 after City councillors had
voted to press ahead with a £640,000 package
of measures aimed at smoothing the flow of traffic
on the A57 between Brook Hill roundabout and
Broomhill, through the hospital and university
campuses. This includes additional parking
restrictions and operating bus lanes for longer on
the designated 'gold route'‚ of Western Bank
and Whitham Road, moves that critics say will push
more vehicles on to congested side streets. In fact
some fifty parking places will be lost. Broomhill
traffic flow will also be given a rough ride if the
Supertram extension goes ahead. SYPTE are proposing
to spend £400m on a Supertram extension that
has a direct impact on Broomhill and Ranmoor.In
response to local concerns a local group REACT
(Ranmoor and Endcliffe Action on Trams) was set up
to oppose the planned extension route. REACT
believes that the proposal for this route has many
flaws. The financial viability of the new route has
to be questioned. REACT will be pursuing the issue
of financial viability vigorously. SYPTE's argument
for this £400 million spend is that it will
result in reduced traffic congestion. Given the
current traffic patterns, introducing a tram into
these routes will exacerbate congestion. From an
environmental standpoint the physical impact will
be awful. Supertram is a 50-ton light train: to
call it a tram is a wholly misleading. The tram
needs a minimum carriageway width of 25feet. Much
of the proposed route is less than this, so road
widening will be needed. To accommodate the poles
and electric conductors, trees along the whole
route will have to be cut back or felled.This will
adversely affect the character of our leafy suburbs
and will cut directly across the current
conservation policy of the council.There will be
increased pressure on what is already a difficult
parking situation. Furthermore, even the proponents
of the tram agree that it should run on dedicated
tracks away from normal roads.Accordingly the
current routing has huge safety implications. REACT
is investigating all of these issues. Oct
2003 Under a
heading: Chaos reigns at the Town Hall the
Sheffield Telegraph of Friday, August 15
reported on a meeting of the Planning Committee at
which the Westbourne Road Area Traffic Scheme was
discussed and decided upon. Officers considered
several possibilities and suggested: - that the
one-way system on Southbourne Road be removed -
that the traffic calming measures be reduced on
Southbourne Road so as to include the minimum humps
possible within the national guidelines, - that the
various traffic restrictions be removed on
Southbourne Road except where absolutely necessary
e.g. to protect junctions - that the Prohibition of
Waiting in front of driveways be removed where
requested, throughout the scheme &endash; that the
rest of the scheme be implemented as previously
argued. Officers recommended that the one-way
system on Westbourne Road be retained. This part of
the proposal was aimed at reducing through traffic
and also dealing with the worst section of the
school traffic congestion. Officers believed that
the introduction of traffic calming on Southbourne
Road and Westbourne Road would encourage most
drivers travelling between Brocco Bank and
Broomhill to do so via Clarkehouse Road and
Newbould Lane, although it was accepted that some
drivers might choose to travel up Southbourne
Road. According to the unofficial survey
undertaken by a resident, 62% of Southbourne
residents wish to be in the 20mph zone. In view of
this, and the requirement for physical traffic
calming measures within a 20mph zone, humps and
plateaux on Southbourne Road have been retained,
but reduced to the minimum. Many Rutland Park
residents had requested the removal of the proposed
Prohibition of Waiting outside their driveways, so
this has been removed from the scheme. RECOMMENDATION.
That the revised scheme be implemented. The
latest information from Council officers on the
residents' parking scheme is that it is behind on
the original schedule, due to resourcing issues,
but work is now progressing on the preparatory
work; street survey works have been commissioned
which will inform the eventual design. On
completion of the survey it will be necessary to
review the phasing of the residents' parking
schemes to take account of other works programmed
for the area. BANG will be keeping a close
eye on this to make sure that it does go ahead, as
demanded by the great majority of Broomhill
residents taking part in various consultation
exercises over several years, as soon as possible.
Apart from the Westbourne Road Area Scheme other
traffic and parking matters on the horizon concern
Broomhill residents. The possibility of a Supertram
extension through Endcliffe to Ranmoor has led to
the formation of a response group called
REACT. Those interested should contact
2667247 March
2003 Update: The statutory
TRO process finishes shortly. The comments received
will then form the basis of a statutory report to
Area Board (required due to objections received),
who will hopefully approve the scheme. The scheme
is fully designed and is already with Street Force,
with a tentative start date of April. This scheme
has always been ahead of the Westbourne scheme -
this is due to the positive feedback at
consultation, which allowed us to proceed rather
than redesign. 2. Westbourne
Road Area Scheme: This scheme has been delayed -
firstly due to the need to redesign the scheme
after consultation, and secondly due to the
timescales involved in drafting and advertising
TRO's. The timescales for Westbourne Road should be
as follows: End March - Distribution of Information
Leaflet; Early April - Advertisement of TRO's for a
three week period; 19 May - South Planning and
Highways Area Board. It is hoped that the scheme
will be operative in the summer. September
2002 Plan 4
Transport in S10 Improving Broomhill The council is
now completing the design work on several schemes
in the Broomhill area. These include: New
pedestrian facilities at the Newbould Lane/Glossop
Road junction. A traffic calming and 20 mile mph
zone on Taptonville Road, Lawson Road and Sale
Hill. Refurbishment of car parks on Spooner Road
and Parkers Lane. According to the latest
information the Taptonville Road/Lawson Road/Sale
Hill scheme is now fully designed. The intention
will be to construct this year. As for the
Westbourne Road Area Scheme a revised one way
system is to be received on 30 September by South
Area Board. Local properties will be informed of
the revised scheme nearer the time. The Newbould
Lane/Glossop Road pedestrian facilities scheme is
to be issued to Street Force this month. Design
work is underway for all the major Broomhill
junctions. Installation of CCTV cameras is in
hand. The first set
of highway developments in the PLAN S10 programme
is getting under way through a local community
information programme on Fulwood Road between
Manchester Road and Endcliffe Vale Road. These
proposals join up with the road safety scheme being
built outside Notre Dame school. Detailed
information about these developments can be
obtained by calling the information line on 0845 30
30 343. A nine month clampdown by the police on
parking at urban clearway times and in bus lanes
has just started. With regard to Urban Clearway,
Prohibition and Restricting of Waiting and Bus Stop
Clearway Orders the Council has announced such
Orders. The effect will be to: a) introduce Urban
Clearway Restrictions (No Waiting and No
Loading/Unloading 0800-0930 & 1630-1830
Monday-Friday) on the whole of that part of Fulwood
Road between its junctions with Manchester Road and
Ashdell Road; b) introduce a Prohibition of Waiting
At Any time on the whole of that part of Fulwood
Road between its junctions with Manchester Road and
Endcliffe Vale Road; c) designate roads as Bus Stop
Clearways At All Times (no stopping except buses
within the marked areas at bus stops). April 2002 Broomhill
residents are fed up with their streets being
clogged by commuter parking, with congestion from
too many cars using the area, and with drivers
going too fast when traffic is relatively light.
The few residents' parking areas already in place
are not properly enforced. You may recall
the consultation survey of Broomhill and Broomhall
residents late last year. In that consultation,
BANG endorsed the Council's objectives: to reduce
through traffic, commuter parking and congestion;
to improve pedestrian safety and reduce traffic
speeds. BANG also supported the specific proposals
to meet those objectives: residents' parking, 20
mph zones, traffic calming, and (albeit with
reservations) one-way systems. The results of
the survey are now in and a paper describing them
and making recommendations were due to be presented
to the Council's Cabinet on 22 April. This paper to
Cabinet should be available at www.sheffield.gov.uk
from 15 April. It will be the sole agenda item at
an Area Panel meeting on Wednesday 17 April at the
Methodist Church on Fulwood Road. This gives local
people the chance to have their say before it goes
to Cabinet and your views will be fed back when
Cabinet looks at the recommendations. It is vital
that the Broomhill community continues to press
hard for the desperately-needed improvements to
parking and traffic management in our area. We need
a large turnout and clear messages to the Council
on 17 April. So, whatever
your views on the specific proposals, please come
to the meeting and tell the Council what you
think. If you can't
get to the meeting please put your views to BANG:
contact 266 1583, email david@shapiro.co.uk December
2001 PARKING AND
TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CONSULTATION: Your
questionnaires were due back to the council by 14
December. BANG remains broadly supportive of the
proposals, although receptive to comments received
as to how these would affect individual residents
and institutions in the area. BANG's support for
the proposals was noted in the Sheffield Telegraph
and a representative was interviewed about traffic
and parking problems outside his own house on Radio
Sheffield. Over 400 people attended the open day at
the Fulwood Road Methodist Church on 3 December.
Council officers were pleased with the turnout and
with the helpful nature of the comments received
which will certainly influence the revised scheme
to be put forward to Cabinet early next year
following analysis of survey returns. BANG officers
also received phone-calls and emails on this,
ranging from some who wanted traffic calming but no
one-way systems to others who wanted one-way
systems but no traffic calming! Thus the Council
cannot please all of the people all of the time;
the best any consultation can achieve is to please
most of the people most of the time. But this does
seem an effective consultation process, and the
constructive efforts of all concerned are a fine
example of the Broomhill community working
together. BANG's parking and traffic subgroup will
be receiving an update from council officers on 7th
February. Meanwhile, distribution of the BANGER
special to non-members had the intended effect on
recruitment; the committee urges you to get your
neighbours to join, as the larger we become, the
stronger our voice and the more resources (in
person power as well as cash) we can bring to
improving the quality of life in
Broomhill. November
2001 This special
edition is to promote the widest possible
involvement in the Council's consultation on its
parking and traffic management proposals. BANG
supports the Councils efforts to improve parking
and traffic management in Broomhill and urges all
residents to have their say in the Council's
consultation by: - Returning the
questionnaire that is going out to households
within the area included in the scheme - Taking part
in the open days on 3rd December at the Fulwood
Road Methodist Church and 10th December at Hanover
Methodist Church, Filey Street, Broomhall, both
from 1.00 to 8.00 pm. For years, the
BANG committee has debated members' concerns at the
ever-worsening parking and traffic problems of our
neighbourhood. Until now, the Council has not come
up with any substantial improvements. Other parts
of the city have done better, with traffic calming
and parking priorities that have significantly
improved the amenity and convenience of
residents,whilst also protecting local businesses
from the worst effects of commuter traffic and
parking. We now see the first phase of the
Council's programme for Broomhill, to which new
energy and resources are being committed alongside
continuing consultations with the
community. Consultations
during 2000 established local priorities to
be: - Reduced
congestion - Improved
pedestrian safety - Slower
traffic speeds - Reduced
through traffic and commuter parking Although no
solution is perfect and further changes may be
required in the future, BANG endorses the present
proposals as a first crucial step in securing real
benefits to the neighbourhood. BANG's considered
view, formed independently of the Council, is that
these proposals should go forward to implementation
rather than being allowed to get bogged down in
further rounds of discussion and debate. That could
lose us this opportunity for worthwhile easing of
severe neighbourhood problems. Positive response to
the consultation could yield implementation on the
ground as soon as summer 2002. RESIDENTS
PARKING is supported by BANG, because: - The growth of
commuter parking over recent years has brought
intolerable inconvenience to residents without
off-street parking, as whole streets are full for
much of the day - The balance
of residents' parking, unrestricted areas, and
limited waiting areas will be determined
street-by-street and residents' questionnaire
responses will inform this allocation - Availability
of 20p visitor permits, and special permits for
healthcare workers and tradespeople, will meet the
needs of non-residents with good reason to park in
Broomhill - Even if you
do not currently feel a need for residents'
parking, BANG advises you to consider that the
likely effect of residents parking areas, so
desperately needed by many of your neighbours, will
be to displace commuter parking onto unrestricted
nearby streets - Income
received from permit charges will be used to cover
the cost of administering and maintaining the
Residents Parking Scheme and will also be used to
pay for the Council's Parking Attendants to enforce
the restrictions. TRAFFIC
MANAGEMENT BANG strongly
endorses the proposed 20 mph zones and traffic
calming. These will greatly enhance the safety and
amenity of residential streets. BANG also supports
pedestrian crossings at the very difficult Newbould
Lane/Glossop Road junction, and agrees with the
Council's proposal to replace the troublesome
parking spaces outside the Post Office with
additional capacity in upgraded car parks at
Spooner Road and Parkers Lane. ONE WAY
SYSTEM BANG supports
the proposed one way system in the Westbourne Road
area. Such systems can be controversial because
they lengthen some local journeys by car. But key
benefits of the Westbourne Road area proposals in
restoring residential quietness are insufficiently
emphasised in the consultation leaflet. BANG
believes they will: - Stop
motorists from using Westbourne or Southbourne
Roads as through routes from Brocco Bank to
Broomhill centre and beyond - Reduce
rat-runners use of Ashdell and Westbourne Roads to
by-pass Broomhill centre - Ease the
twice-daily mayhem of the school run, which will
produce slow-moving queues rather than total
gridlock and frustration. However, BANG
sees less need for the one way system on Rutland
Park, because: - Its only
benefit would be to formalise existing informal
arrangements that work well for the school
run - This would be
greatly outweighed by the nuisance to residents of
needless additional circuits of the crescent at
other times of day and night FURTHER
COMMENTS Do add your
comments in the spaces provided in the
questionnaire. The questions posed were designed to
secure clear yes or no answers from residents on
key issues. But Council officers will welcome your
detailed comments in the space provided. BANG
believes that officers are genuinely committed to
taking account of these in implementing the current
scheme in each street, and in the bringing forward
of new proposals in subsequent phases of their
Broomhill improvement programme. September
2001 Parking and
related transport issues: On Friday 20 July The
Sheffield Telegraph published the following report
under the headline Broomhill Scheme gets the green
light: "A £240,000 scheme to ease traffic
problems in Broomhill over the next year has been
given the green light. It includes installing CCTV
cameras in the shopping centre to monitor traffic
flows at the main junctions and the introduction of
a 20 mph zone and other traffic calming measures in
the Westbourne Road area. Other improvements are to
be to the Spooner Road and Parkers Lane car parks.
The changes aim to strike a balance between the
needs of motorists, pedestrians, traders and public
transport. Alterations may be made to some of the
main junctions in Broomhill once traffic has been
assessed in greater detail by the CCTV. Residents
and traders have been pressing for improvements for
years. the council accepts that action is needed,
although mainly through making better use of the
existing road networks2. Dec.
2000 Broomhill
Transportation Study As reported by
Peter Kay in the Sheffield Telegraph, a great deal
of consultation has taken place and a package of
possible traffic changes has been drawn up to
tackle long running problems such as congestion,
commuter parking and dangerous junctions. Chris
Dale, Project Co-ordinator for the Broomhill
Transportation Study, who addressed the packed
meeting in St Mark's Church on 25 October, was well
received and took on board the suggestions and
comments from the audience. As he pointed out,
there would be no magic solutions but a phased
programme of alterations and improvements would be
brought in over a period of time, involving, among
other things, the timing of traffic lights and a
review of the way traffic flows {or does not flow}
round Ashdell Road, Oakholme Road, Westbourne Road
and Southbourne Road. The traffic generated by the
private schools in the area is an obvious source of
congestion. While parking and traffic problems in
the Broomhill area are clearly already a matter of
grave concern, these problems, it is realised, are
inevitably going to be aggravated by the completion
of the new hospital in Stone Grove and by the
opening of the revitalised Botanical Gardens. Very
little parking has been included in the hospital
building plan which means that the surrounding
streets will inevitably be affected. A similar
problem may arise with the Botanical Gardens which
will have a cafe/restaurant at the entrance. Better
bus services will be required and improvements are
also needed to ease parking problems at both the
Clarkehouse Road and Thompson Road ends of the
park. Numbers visiting the park are expected to
increase as the £7.5 million refurbishment
project starts to bear fruit. June
2000 Rutland Park
and the Girls Day School Trust Application -
Traffic Issues The Girls Day
School Trust has applied for removal of
restrictions on the use of the High School's new
sports hall preventing non-school use of the hall.
To secure permission for its construction in 1997
the Trust undertook that no such use would be made.
However, within months of its completion, Champs
began operating holiday and weekend camps for
children, using the new hall and featuring this in
its publicity. Council officers moved to enforce
the restrictions, leading to the Trust's
application to have these removed. 20 letters of
objection and a petition with signatures from 28 of
the 33 households on Rutland Park secured a clear
recommendation from Council officers to refuse the
application. Traffic and parking pressures having
further increased since 1997, officers determined
that there were no grounds for lifting the
restrictions. At the City Centre and West planning
board at its meeting on 5th June, the Chair sought
a 'compromise' solution by asking the Trust to
undertake to pay the cost of a residents' parking
scheme for Rutland Park, meanwhile deferring a
decision to a further meeting of the board on 26th
June. The Broomhill councillors agree with
residents that this is no solution, for three
specific reasons: (1) a single-street residents'
parking scheme would not reduce traffic volumes and
would be unenforceable; (2) the proposal runs
contrary to the Council's commitment to a strategic
approach to parking problems over a wider area, and
would merely displace parking pressures to nearby
streets; (3) it is not feasible to deliver
commitment to a residents' parking scheme in the
3-week deferral period. Rutland Park residents were
well-received by the local MP, who advised them to
reject the compromise as ill-conceived and
inappropriate. Broomhill residents wishing further
information should contact BANG for further
details. March
2000 Broomhill's
Traffic Problems Dec.
1999 Traffic Chaos
in Westbourne/Southbourne Road March
1999 Pegasus House
Car Park- Ashdell Road Dec.
1998 The matter of
the phasing of the traffic lights at the junction
of Fulwood Road and Manchester Road was raised with
the authorities by a BANG member. Improving
Broomhill * Traffic
lights fail to make their purpose clear, e.g.
lights into town on Fulwood Road, at the bottom of
Taptonville Road The
sub-committee would be very happy to hear from BANG
members on any of the above points, or on any other
problems they might like to raise. May
1997 25 April
AGM Feb.
1997 Broomhill
Forum May
1993 Despite
objections from BANG and from Lawson Road
residents, permission has been granted for the
alteration and extension of 5 Lawson Road for use
as a doctor's surgery. Our objection was based on
the loss of a family house and on the increased
traffic and parking that will be created in an
already busy road, with no access for cars from
Fulwood Road. Nov.
1990 The first part
of these roadworks, the reconstruction of the
carriageway on Newbould Lane has almost finished.
All traffic restrictions should be removed for the
Christmas holiday period. The final stage
of the works, the reconstruction of the carriageway
on Clarkehouse Road, will start on 7 January.
Traffic on Clarkehouse Road will be restricted to
one way out of the city between Glossop Road and
Newbould Lane. City bound traffic will be diverted
via either Westbourne Road and Glossop Road, or
Newbould Lane and Glossop Road, with Westbourne
Road being restricted to one way between Ashdell
and Glossop Road to accommodate this. Feb.
1990 At the request
of residents from Spooner road and Hoole Road who
find it impossible to repark cars if they use them
during the day, we have asked for Spooner Road,
Hoole Road and Pisgah House Road to be made into a
1 hour in 4 restricted parking area, with parking
permits for residents. We have not yet received an
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