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22

Feb 2021

Last Updated: 22/02/2021
Transport
Transport

Stray bollard planned for Beech Grove road closure

by Calvin Robinson

| 22 Feb, 2021
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North Yorkshire County Council wants to erect a bollard to prevent motorists driving on the Stray to avoid the controversial new Harrogate road closure. This will require approval under the Stray Act.

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Tyre tracks on the Stray next to the planters on Beech Grove.

Highways bosses are to apply to erect a bollard on the Stray to stop cars driving over it to avoid the Beech Grove road closure in Harrogate.

Last week, the Stray Ferret reported cars were driving over the Stray to get around the new closure, which was put in place to block through traffic and create a Low Traffic Neighbourhood.

Cllr Don Mackenzie, executive member for access at North Yorkshire County Council, described it as “extremely poor behaviour” and added that drivers were committing an offence.

Some people have taken to social media to report alleged incidents of drivers going over the Stray to get around the planters.

https://twitter.com/dsp99t/status/1363820570467532800

In a tweet, Cllr Mackenzie said the county council, which is the highways authority, would apply to Harrogate Borough Council to place a bollard on the Stray to block such manoeuvres.

He added the authority had already erected a bollard on the footpath side to prevent cars from mounting the pavement.

The borough council said it had yet to receive a request for the bollard, but confirmed that such a plan would require approval under the Stray Act.




Read more:



  • Senior councillors defend closure of Harrogate’s Beech Grove

  • Cars drive over Stray to avoid Harrogate road closure






Beech Grove is closed to through traffic for six months before the county council, which is consulting on the scheme, decides whether to make it permanent.

In a letter to the Stray Ferret, Chris Granville, a resident on Beech Grove, said it had been “the most thoughtless implementation imaginable”.

He said:

“The signs are completely inadequate to inform the motorists of the change so it is almost inevitable that drivers will come up against the barriers.
“It would have been so easy to display reasonable size signs in good time, but no, it has been implemented as a motorist trap. It would also have helped if there was a partial barrier at the town end of Beech Grove, outside Wentworth Court, being a clear indicator that entry was for residents and parking only.
“Whoever has done this should show a little respect for road users.”