Agenda item

Report by Traffic and Development Manager

A report providing a summary of the parking review process to date, was considered.  The report also provided a number of options available to Members for consideration.

 

Motion

 

1. The Helensburgh and Lomond Area Committee notes:

• The number and range of objections
• The different and often competing desires of different sectors of the community
• The identification that the real issue in the village centre is traffic movement through the village streets and the limited number of on street parking spaces available.
• The legal advice from council officers and external and independent counsel that it is not possible under current legislation to restrict access to a public road to certain classes of road users although it is possible to restrict it to certain types of vehicles only, for example buses or taxis.
• The extensive consultation carried out.
• The council owns no land in the area which could be used for another public car park.
• The possible impact on local businesses who employ staff from out with the village if the draft proposals were to proceed.

 

2. In light of the above, the Helensburgh and Lomond Area Committee agrees:

• NOT to progress the current draft TRO.
• To write to Transport Scotland requesting the rationalisation of signage by removing signs directing traffic from the A82 into the south end of Luss village. Thus reducing the traffic flow into the village and bringing traffic in to arrive first at the public car park.
• To arrange for the erection of additional signs directing traffic to the public car park, reducing potential for visiting traffic to continue on to the residential areas of the village.
• To note that the Council does not own any developable land in the immediate vicinity of the village and if the community wish to seek to acquire land ,under the community right to buy provisions ,to invite them to contact the Scottish Government Community Land team to seek advice on the process required 
• To promote a twenty mile an hour speed limit on parts of the old A82 and in the residential areas of the village in the interests of road safety.
• To progress a TRO to introduce the drop off bay to be advertised in due course for public consultation.
• To ask officers and Police Scotland to monitor and evaluate the impact of these changes on traffic movement in the village.

 

Moved by Councillor Ellen Morton, seconded by Councillor Barbara Morgan

 

Amendment

 

The Helensburgh and Lomond Area Committee notes the contents of the report and the officer’s recommendation relating to the traffic management and parking review at Luss.  The Area Committee also notes the significant number of objections that have been submitted and sustained against the draft Traffic Regulation Order (TROs).

 

The Area Committee confirms that it wishes to work with the Luss community in finding an acceptable solution to the ongoing traffic problems within the village and does not want to impose a scheme on the community that has virtually no support from within the community.

 

Given the above, the Area Committee agrees:

 

(a)  To accept Option 1 within the report to do nothing at this time, which reflects the strength of feeling and the significant number of objections to the Council’s draft proposals.

(b)  That officers and Ward Councillors should arrange to meet with Luss and Arden Community Council with a view to agreeing those aspects within the TROs that are acceptable to the community and that can be progressed at an early date and any other proposals that are considered to be beneficial to the community.

 

Moved by Councillor George Freeman, seconded by Councillor Lorna Douglas

 

Councillor Trail asked if additional wording could be inserted into the terms of the motion as follows:  “To arrange for the erection of appropriate advisory signage at the entrance to the residential areas of the village to discourage traffic from entering this area”.

 

Councillor Ellen Morton with the consent of her seconder Councillor Morgan, agreed that this wording be inserted and the amended version became the substantive motion.

 

Decision

 

On a show of hands vote the Motion was carried by 7 votes to 3 and the Committee resolved as follows:-

 

1.The Helensburgh and Lomond Area Committee notes:

• The number and range of objections
• The different and often competing desires of different sectors of the community
• The identification that the real issue in the village centre is traffic movement through the village streets and the limited number of on street parking spaces available.
• The legal advice from council officers and external and independent counsel that it is not possible under current legislation to restrict access to a public road to certain classes of road users although it is possible to restrict it to certain types of vehicles only, for example buses or taxis.
• The extensive consultation carried out.
• The council owns no land in the area which could be used for another public car park.
• The possible impact on local businesses who employ staff from out with the village if the draft proposals were to proceed.

 

2. In light of the above, the Helensburgh and Lomond Area Committee agrees:

• NOT to progress the current draft TRO.
• To write to Transport Scotland requesting the rationalisation of signage by removing signs directing traffic from the A82 into the south end of Luss village. Thus reducing the traffic flow into the village and bringing traffic in to arrive first at the public car park.
• To arrange for the erection of additional signs directing traffic to the public car park, reducing potential for visiting traffic to continue on to the residential areas of the village.
• To arrange for the erection of appropriate advisory signage at the entrance to the residential areas of the village to discourage traffic from entering this area.
• To note that the Council does not own any developable land in the immediate vicinity of the village and if the community wish to seek to acquire land ,under the community right to buy provisions ,to invite them to contact the Scottish Government Community Land team to seek advice on the process required 
• To promote a twenty mile an hour speed limit on parts of the old A82 and in the residential areas of the village in the interests of road safety.
• To progress a TRO to introduce the drop off bay to be advertised in due course for public consultation.
• To ask officers and Police Scotland to monitor and evaluate the impact of these changes on traffic movement in the village.

 

(Ref:  Report by Traffic and Development Manager dated November 2017, submitted).

 

 

The Chair, on behalf of the Area Committee, thanked Lyndis Davidson for all her hard work and wished all the best for the future.

 

Councillor Freeman left the meeting.