To report the receipt of a petition requesting the installation of traffic calming planters on Hamilton Road.

(a)     Receipt of petition – Traffic Calming Planters on Hamilton Road

The Executive Director for Economic Growth and Neighbourhood Services submitted a report informing the Sub-Committee that the Council had received a petition, requesting the installation of traffic calming planters on Hamilton Road. 

The report explained that the petition, which had contained 44 signatures, read as follows:

“Please install wooden planters to narrow Hamilton Road at strategic points. This will give the following advantages:

Reduce traffic speed (pollution and safety benefits)

Emphasise to drivers that this is a residential area with a 20mph limit

Increase plant diversity and quantity on the road with benefits to insect and birdlife

Improved air-quality (plants are good!)

The planters could be long and narrow to stretch out into the road without taking up parking spaces

To narrow the road as much as possible but still allow wide enough access for emergency access, deliveries etc.

Positions TBC but probably just outside the ends of parking bays (maybe around the crescent crossroads and at the outer ends of Hamilton.

Only in places with no drives opposite so access not restricted”

The report stated that the request raised within the petition would be investigated by officers and a report submitted to a future meeting of the Sub-Committee for consideration.

Resolved –

(1)   That the report be noted;

(2)   That the request be investigated, and a report submitted to a future meeting of the Sub-Committee for consideration;

(3)   That the lead petitioner be informed accordingly.