Parents, carers and residents we must work together to ensure Leicestershire County Council (LCC) takes responsibility for the inadequate parking restrictions outside Newlands Community Primary School. We must ensure our voices are heard, that they listen and take on board our concerns and frustrations and ensure they work quickly to resolve this issue and inforce adequate restrictions.
The current situation on Bell Vue Road at drop off and pick up times is not only dangerous and poses a real risk to the safety of our children, it is also causing a nuisance and stress to residents who live on the road with many motorist parking blocking driveways or double parking along the road.
Dangerous, unlawful and inconsiderate parking leads to motorists and pedestrians having to take risks in order to pass parked cars or cross the road blind creating dangerous situations for all involved. There have already been numerous complaints from residents as well as reports of near misses involving our children.
The following suggestions have been made by parents, carers and residents who feel very strongly about the safety of the children attending the school:
- Provide a safety crossing or crossings that are manned by an appropriate adult during drop off and pick up times.
- Employ a Lolipop person to help parents and children cross safely and potentially slow down traffic outside the school.
- Apply double yellow lines to both sides of the road to run between the junction of Hinckley Road and the cross roads located outside the One Stop.
- Install speed bumps to help slow the traffic outside the school.
- Provide parking for parents on the abondaned site to the left of the school.
Please sign this petition to help us resolve this problem, restore normality for the residents and most importantly ensure our children are able to attend school safely!
A copy of this petition will be sent to LCC and David Tredinnick (MP). Please add any further suggestions in the comment boxes below.
Updates
March 3, 2019
I have been reviewing the detailed accounts of near misses that many of you have shared in the comments. These experiences clarify the urgency of the situation and provide necessary evidence for my upcoming meeting with the local council representatives.
March 3, 2019
The momentum behind our request for safer traffic conditions has reached a significant level. It is clear that the community expects Leicestershire County Council to treat our concerns with the urgency they require.
Reached 100 supporters
March 3, 2019
61 Comments
My son was almost hit from behind as a car drove on the footpath. There is no safe place to cross at the moment. We really need some form of crossing
The abuse from drivers and language is awful and the children should not be hearing or seeing this everyday. Also not all children are taken to school by parents and seeing them trying to cross that road is scarey and only a matter of time before one of the children are seriously injured or even killed god forbid.
I am a resident of belle vue road and the parking at school times is awful ! Also there needs to be something in place as the speed drivers come down the road is dangerous and have no care there are children around. Speed bumps need to be put down the road too slow traffic and also something needs to be put in place for school times to make it safer
There is a lot of people who don't need to take their cars. There is only one side of the road for other drivers to use coming from both ways which causes a back log of cars everywhere. Also some drivers are having to drive on the path to get by , someone will be seriously hurt or killed.
I'm s local resident who lives opposite the school it is very dangerous and needs double yellow lines outside the school gates and the full of length of the school boundaries.
I'm doing this because my boyfriends brother lives right near there and he has 3 very young children
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Parents, carers and residents we must work together to ensure Leicestershire County Council (LCC) takes responsibility for the inadequate parking restrictions outside Newlands Community Primary School. We must ensure our voices are heard, that they listen and take on board our concerns and frustrations and ensure they work quickly to resolve this issue and inforce adequate restrictions.
The current situation on Bell Vue Road at drop off and pick up times is not only dangerous and poses a real risk to the safety of our children, it is also causing a nuisance and stress to residents who live on the road with many motorist parking blocking driveways or double parking along the road.
Dangerous, unlawful and inconsiderate parking leads to motorists and pedestrians having to take risks in order to pass parked cars or cross the road blind creating dangerous situations for all involved. There have already been numerous complaints from residents as well as reports of near misses involving our children.
The following suggestions have been made by parents, carers and residents who feel very strongly about the safety of the children attending the school:
- Provide a safety crossing or crossings that are manned by an appropriate adult during drop off and pick up times.
- Employ a Lolipop person to help parents and children cross safely and potentially slow down traffic outside the school.
- Apply double yellow lines to both sides of the road to run between the junction of Hinckley Road and the cross roads located outside the One Stop.
- Install speed bumps to help slow the traffic outside the school.
- Provide parking for parents on the abondaned site to the left of the school.
Please sign this petition to help us resolve this problem, restore normality for the residents and most importantly ensure our children are able to attend school safely!
A copy of this petition will be sent to LCC and David Tredinnick (MP). Please add any further suggestions in the comment boxes below.
Updates
March 3, 2019
I have been reviewing the detailed accounts of near misses that many of you have shared in the comments. These experiences clarify the urgency of the situation and provide necessary evidence for my upcoming meeting with the local council representatives.
March 3, 2019
The momentum behind our request for safer traffic conditions has reached a significant level. It is clear that the community expects Leicestershire County Council to treat our concerns with the urgency they require.
Reached 100 supporters
March 3, 2019
61 Comments
I live near to school and parking is silly. I have come home so many times to people parked infront of my driveway, school zig zags and really close to the roundabout going onto hinckley road parking upto the bump but meaning other vehicles (lorries for delivary)cant get round.
My son was almost hit from behind as a car drove on the footpath. There is no safe place to cross at the moment. We really need some form of crossing
The abuse from drivers and language is awful and the children should not be hearing or seeing this everyday. Also not all children are taken to school by parents and seeing them trying to cross that road is scarey and only a matter of time before one of the children are seriously injured or even killed god forbid.
I am a resident of belle vue road and the parking at school times is awful ! Also there needs to be something in place as the speed drivers come down the road is dangerous and have no care there are children around. Speed bumps need to be put down the road too slow traffic and also something needs to be put in place for school times to make it safer
There is a lot of people who don't need to take their cars. There is only one side of the road for other drivers to use coming from both ways which causes a back log of cars everywhere. Also some drivers are having to drive on the path to get by , someone will be seriously hurt or killed.
I'm s local resident who lives opposite the school it is very dangerous and needs double yellow lines outside the school gates and the full of length of the school boundaries.
I'm doing this because my boyfriends brother lives right near there and he has 3 very young children
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I live near to school and parking is silly. I have come home so many times to people parked infront of my driveway, school zig zags and really close to the roundabout going onto hinckley road parking upto the bump but meaning other vehicles (lorries for delivary)cant get round.