ePetition details
Reduction/removal of double yellow lines on one side on Padiham Road Sabden adjacent to local shop to aid difficulties in parking in village, reduce speed of cars coming through village and safety for children at local school.
*Numerous residents who reside on this road are working
families, with at least one car and mostly two vehicles.
*With properties on both sides and double yellow lines on both
sides, residents are very limited to parking, especially those who
finish work late.
*Provision for parking in Sabden is extremely limited, with
numerous streets parking on pavements and in bus stops, as most
properties in central Sabden are terraced houses.
*The local car park doesn’t have sufficient capacity for all
the properties and sizes of vehicles/vans and isn’t safe as
youths are often seen kicking footballs and gathering near public
toilets.
*The local shop has numerous customers all times of the day,
resulting in them resorting to parking on double yellow
lines.
*Speeding through the village is an ongoing and growing issue, with
local police in agreement and a number of reports and concerns from
residents regarding safety, especially in such close proximity to
the local council school. Parked vehicles result in a reduction in
speed.
*In addition to this vehicles that are parked around the corner,
close to Alston Close have been damaged due to narrow road and
refuse wagons being unable to get through. Vehicles also have to
resort to park on blind spots, making it unsafe for pedestrians and
oncoming vehicles.
*Maintenance of flora on this parking area (near Alston Close),
isn’t maintained resulting in damage to vehicles from over
hanging foliage.
This ePetition ran from 24/06/2020 to 05/08/2020 and has now finished.
89 people signed this ePetition.
Council response
There are double white centreline marking which prohibits any parking or stopping along this section of Padiham Road between Whalley Road and Simonstone Road, this was introduced for historic safety reasons. This restriction is enforced by the police.
Removing restrictions on any section of the road is likely to result in further pavement obstruction. As this section of road is narrow and residents are concerned about damage to cars. Cars will partially park on footways, potentially causing access issues for pedestrians and school children.
To ensure any road safety measures have the greatest impact, we target locations with a proven road safety issue. This is mainly determined by the number of reported injury accidents at a particular location. We also target schemes that contribute towards improving the wider highway network.
The road safety record on Padiham Road between Whalley Road and Simonstone Road is good, with no recorded injury accidents in the last five years. On this basis the county council does not propose further changes or reviews to parking arrangements in Sabden village at the present time.