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  1. Then you should make a complaint. SYMCA have a complaints process here If they fail to respond to that I’d write to the chief executive, Martin Swales and ask him why his officers aren’t complying with corporate procedures. If that fails, report them to the Local Government Ombudsman. By the way it isn't generally councillors who respond to complaints / inquiries.
  2. That’s because bus operators tell councils that buses have difficulty emerging from bus bays because other drivers won’t let them out, resulting in delays to the bus service. So it’s done in the interests of speeding up bus services and making journey times more reliable. Have you asked the MCA/PTE why the shelters have been removed? They wouldn’t do that without there being a good reason. They understand very well that people want / need shelters wherever possible.
  3. Well, according to the official way of categorising collisions, it wasn’t serious. High speed may have been a factor and as I said, the police record the causation factors in the Stats 19 report. Prosecutions are a matter of public record, but I’d think you would have to do a lot of research to find out whether a prosecution resulted from a particular incident. As far as I’m aware, people can give camera footage to the police, who do take action in appropriate cases. The money that the government / councils put into road safety engineering is generally targeted at locations which have higher numbers of recorded serious injury accidents or fatalities. Some councils put smaller amounts of money into addressing locations where there is a perception of being unsafe. They do what they can with the money available to address the places where collisions are having the highest impacts on people, the NHS and emergency services and the economy as a whole. What you are suggesting is an altogether greater order of magnitude. Latest figures for 2022 suggest: 1.7k killed 30k seriously injured 104k slight injuries If you are expecting the authorities to investigate and take action on slight injury collisions and even ones which involve no injuries, it would be an enormous task needing huge investment. What other activity would you suggest cutting to pay for it, as there’s no “new” money, it has to come from somewhere.
  4. Road traffic accidents are officially categorised by the severity of injuries which occurred: slight serious fatal A slight injury is a sprain / strain or bruise. Serious is broken bones, hospitalisation. The recorded statistics (Stats 19 reports) produced by the police don’t concern themselves with the potential consequences of any collision, they cover the facts, what happened, what was the outcome ( severity of injuries) and what were the causes. Non injury accidents are not recorded, because they don’t need to be reported to the police. The government is most interested in reducing killed and seriously injured casualties and funding generally goes into dealing with locations which have several of these in a 3 to 5 year period.
  5. The amount of houses they can build on the site will be a factor, The draft local plan was aparrently suggesting 270 or so. If there is a viability gap ( it costs too much to clean up the land and the developer wouldn’t make a profit) there are sometimes government grants available to help. The Brownfield Housing Fund (BHF) is one such government fund.
  6. There’s limited potential for housing at the aerodrome. It certainly was green belt and it is contaminated.
  7. Certainly easier running it from Herdings and so less costly, but I’d doubt there are enough people within a reasonable walk of that route to justify the investment. There are more people around the suggested Chesterfield Rd route but it would be a lot more difficult and costly to deliver.
  8. I worked at SCC for a good number of years and I never heard of any plan to take the tram up Chesterfield Road. The last attempts for extensions were to the Hallamshire Hospital and Rotherham ( not the tram train route). There were thoughts of an extension to Waverley but thats’s all they were. Never heard any suggestion of a route to Woodseats and Meadowhead. The tram is the responsibility of the combined authority, not the council by the way. As others have said any thoughts of tram extensions are well into the future. They are hideously expensive and take many years to design and plan. As far as I’m aware, the operation of the current one here has not been a commercial success and the CA had to ask the government for substantial amounts of money to refurbish the system and keep it running. I’d suspect they might struggle to justify the investment in new lines to the government, who provide the funds. It looks possible that West Yorkshire might get the tram system they are working on. That’s forecast to be costing £2.5 billion for a couple of lines. Will the government fund something similar here at the same time?
  9. Parking services work evenings and weekends. They enforce at football matches too. In residential areas, the best anyone can expect is occasional enforcement. The threat of enforcement is sufficient to ensure that the vast majority of drivers comply with the rules. Parking services have priorities like any other services. They tend to prioritise main routes, the city centre and permit parking schemes. If residents spot persistent abuse of restrictions, they can let parking services know where and when it occurs and one of their mobile teams can visit. The levels of enforcement that can reasonably be expected is a matter for debate and it depends on how much resource ( money) politicians will allocate for it. Some people would welcome more enforcement, others might think it too draconian. That’s why it’s politicians who decide. Why don’t you ask him? You’re capable of posting on here, why not send him an email and see if you get a reply. You’ve got more chance that way than repeatedly posting it on here.
  10. I’d think it highly unlikely that the development will use the entrance as currently configured, as traffic levels using it will be much higher than now. We don’t know what they have been told is needed by the SCC planners and we won’t know what is being proposed till we see the planning application details, so it’s rather pointless speculating. The collisions at that location generally relate to people turning right into the side road, so wouldn’t relate to the entrance to the sports ground. There are many improvements that the developer could be conditioned to install / pay for. For example they could be conditioned for the whole junction to be signalised, including their entrance if it was considered necessary.
  11. There isn’t always space to clear the pavements as well as enough of the road to get vehicles through. Thats certainly the case where I live, but it’s a cul de sac so no one minds walking on the road and we all look out for each other. In difficult conditions there often needs to be compromise and whatever is done, it won’t suit everyone.
  12. The designers will have looked at the best way of accessing and exiting the site, bearing in mind all the relevant factors, including the levels of traffic they expect to be coming into / out of the site and conditions on the existing road network, as well as safety. I’d think they will have done some sort of modelling to see what the impacts will be on the local highway network, particularly the junctions. They will also discuss matters like this in pre-application discussions with SCC’s planners. Bear in mind that all you have seen is a visualisation, which doesn’t show all details. The actual layout may be different. Why do you think the entrance / exit should be split? I’m not sure it makes much sense to put extra traffic onto the A61.
  13. Not figured out how to use the “quote” function yet? Developers use nationally accepted standards to determine the number of parking spaces needed for developments. If the local planners try to insist on significantly more spaces without a very solid justification, the developer will just appeal and probably win. Planning law is heavily weighted in favour of the developer. That’s how the government wants it. Unless the “inconsiderately parked” vehicles are in contravention of a restriction, parking services can’t do anything. If the locals are seeing vehicles regularly parked in contravention of restrictions that the council can enforce, they should contact parking services and request enforcement action. Enforcement in residential areas is only normally occasional. They don’t have the resources to do it regularly. Also, there’s nothing inherently wrong with drivers parking in residential areas in legitimate parking spaces. Locals may not like it, but it’s a public highway, anyone can park. Yep, Meadowhead has decent bus routes nearby doesn’t it? A good proportion of attendance at any significant event is going to come by public transport, walking, multiple people in vehicles, getting dropped off, taxis etc. Not everyone comes 1 to a car.
  14. The locals have been complaining about parking from the other nearby locations for years. Probably nothing to do with the stadium proposal, because that’s all it is, a proposal. They haven’t submitted a detailed application yet.
  15. Those things are made to stack on top of each other. Grit bins aren’t.
  16. You seriously think they have the time and storage capacity to remove and replace 2200 grit bins every year?
  17. Grit bins are for roads and footpaths, not domestic use. You can buy rock salt for that. You can grit plenty from a bin. It doesn’t need a lot of it to get results. This page on the council website has details on grit bin locations and relocations and a link to the form to request a refill.
  18. The council do move grit bins around if they are not getting used on current locations. The bins do get refilled pretty quickly, you can request it on their website. According to this report, Sheffield carries out precautionary gritting on a higher percentage of its road network than any other city in the uk and has five times more grit bins than Manchester and Nottingham combined. The report is a few years old, but I don’t think anything much has changed. So, our council does more than any other on this issue, but it’s still not enough for some.
  19. Care to point out where it says in law that the council have to provide grit from Council Tax?
  20. Do you actually think that nearly everyone who comes to sporting events comes by car, with an occupancy of 1 per vehicle? The Arena has a capacity of 12,000 and has less than 1000 parking spaces. Seems to manage reasonably well.
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