Issue details

Traffic congestion in and around Preston city centre has been a regular occurrence for some years. The improvement scheme for the Fishergate Public Realm has been welcomed and now provides a much more attractive and friendly space for those coming into the city centre. However, there continues to be an intermittent problem of congestion along Fishergate with a particular issue of delays for vehicles exiting the car parks serving the St George's shopping centre, the Fishergate shopping centre and Preston railway station. The delays created by the volume of traffic have an impact on Fishergate, with queueing traffic restricting the volume of traffic moving through the Lune Street/Fishergate/Chapel Street junctions.

This report sets out proposals to introduce traffic orders to manage the traffic flows in the city centre during the busy trading period from the end of October through to early January.

The proposals are set out on the plans at Appendices 'A' and 'B'.