Decision made regarding ‘No Waiting At Any Time’ restrictions on Heywood streets

Members of the Heywood Township committee have finally made a decision regarding the ‘No Waiting At Any Time’ restrictions on Barley Hall Street, Fold Street and Harold Lees Road.

Councillors for the North Heywood ward made the final decision regarding the plans and agreed to a second set of plans that were proposed.

All together the committee have been presented with three options for the restrictions.

Councillor Ray Dutton said: “This has been an issue for over 14 years now and is something that we inherited from previous councillors and is something that needs a decision made today. It has been going on for too long and needs to be put to bed today. It is something we are getting fed up with and I am sure it is something that residents are getting fed up with.”

The plans that were agreed by councillors at today's (Monday 9 June) meeting were first presented to the committee in November and were finally agreed upon to stop the township having to spend further funds to go ahead with the new proposed plans.

Councillor Dutton added: “I am not prepared to spend our budget for the rest of the year and for next year on new traffic regulation orders for the new proposals.”

If the third proposal was approved, a new traffic regulation order would have had to be paid for and this is something that councillors did not wish to spend a further £3,000 on.

Councillor Liam O’Rourke added: “This was not an easy situation to be a part of and it is something that has been going on for 14 years now and needed deciding on.”

Councillor Peter Rush was hesitant to agree to the second set of plans and originally voted for the third set of plans presented to councillors. After speaking to a resident in the area and seeing a photo of an ambulance not being able to reach a destination because of people parking on the street, he changed his mind and voted for the second set of plans.

Councillor Dutton added: “Hopefully now common sense prevails in the area.”