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10 April 201910 April 2019

New enforcement order for HGVs through Flockton village

Wednesday 10 April 2019

A couple of articles:

ExaminerLive:

Police have backed calls to restrict trucks, articulated lorries and other HGVs travelling through a traffic-clogged rural village on the outskirts of Huddersfield.

It has prompted Kirklees Council to re-draft a 48-year-old order banning vehicles weighing more than 7.5 tonnes from travelling eastbound on the narrow A637 through Flockton.

Emergency services and local buses, as well as utility, farm and residents’ vehicles, are unaffected.

Police back calls to ban trucks and HGVs from Flockton village

Wakefield Express:

Heavy goods vehicles will soon have to steer clear of roads going through Flockton – or face action.

Weight restrictions have been in place on various roads through Flockton, Emley and Middlestown for almost 50 years in a bid to reduce the amount of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs).

Here's why heavy good vehicles are banned for this Yorkshire village

14 February 2019

Paula Sherriff Asks Minister in House of Commons to Discuss Flockton Road

14 February 2019

Paula Sherriff (Dewsbury) (Lab)
"The A637 runs through the lovely village of Flockton in my constituency. It is a narrow road and is increasingly used by rat runners and HGVs, despite a prohibition order. There have been many instances of reckless driving and some near misses. Will the Minister meet me to discuss how we can make life safer for the people who live in Flockton?"

Jesse Norman
"If it is a purely local road, I am of course happy to look into the matter but it really falls to the local authority. If there is scope for the road to be part of the major roads network, which, as the hon. Lady will know, is precisely designed to relieve some of the pressures on local communities and the strategic road network, we can have that conversation as well."

See House of Commons Hansard, Rural Roads: HGV Traffic, here.

David Rawlings (Flockton resident and bypass campaigner)
"Doesn’t seem that Jesse Norman even knows that the road through our village IS ON the MRN!"

10 February 201910 February 2019

More Lorries with 'Tipping' Plan?

A report by the Examiner Live, 8 February 2019, suggests "new fears for road safety on accident blackspot Bellstring Lane."

A tipping plan to “restore land for agricultural use” could result in more heavy trucks on the M1-M62 shortcut route, and fresh concerns have been raised about safety on the rural Kirklees road, long considered to be an accident blackspot.

"The B6118 Liley Lane in Grange Moor, could become further congested by large HGVs delivering 90,000 tonnes of top soil and inert sub soil to restore derelict land." (Read full article)

4 February 20194 February 2019

Queuing Traffic 4 February 2019

This photograph by Flockton resident, Scot W, graphically shows why Flockton village really needs a bypass.

22 January 201922 January 2019

Proposed Flockton 20 mph Speed Limit – Pre Scheme Survey

Flockton residents have received a letter regarding the proposed 20 mph speed limit, due to come into force in parts of the village, later this year.

All residents are encouraged to respond to the survey and you can complete it by going to this link: kirklees.gov.uk/flocktonsurvey

The survey will be live from Monday 21 January till Friday 22 February 2019.

Once the scheme has been on site for 6 months, a further survey will be produced to evaluate post scheme views.

18 January 201918 January 2019

New Traffic Regulation Order for 7.5T Weight Restriction

Posted as requested by Cllr. John Taylor (17 January 2019)

KIRKLEES COUNCIL
(TRAFFIC REGULATION) (No.4) ORDER 2018

PROPOSED 7.5 TONNE WEIGHT RESTRICTION
VARIOUS ROADS IN FLOCKTON, FLOCKTON MOOR, EMLEY,
MIDDLESTOWN AND OVERTON

The Council of the Borough of Kirklees (“the Council”) in exercise of their powers under Sections 1, 2, 3(2) and 4 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (“the Act”) and of all other enabling powers and after consultation with the Chief Officer of Police in accordance with Part III of Schedule 9 to the Act hereby make the following Order which relates to roads at Flockton, Flockton Moor and Emley in the Kirklees District, and Middlestown and Overton in the Wakefield District.

PART I

Interpretation

1. Save where the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Order to a numbered Article is a reference to the Article bearing that number in this Order.

2. In this Order the expression “maximum gross weight” has the same meaning as in Regulation 4 in Section 1 of Part 1 of the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002.

PART II

Weight Restrictions

3. Save as provided in Article 4 no person shall, except upon the direction or with the permission of a police constable in uniform, cause or permit any vehicle of over 7.5 tonnes maximum gross weight to proceed in the lengths of road in the directions specified in the Schedule to this Order.

4. Nothing in Article 3 shall render it unlawful for a person to cause or permit any vehicle over 7.5 tonnes maximum gross weight to proceed in the lengths of road so specified if the vehicle is being used:-

(a) in connection with the carrying out on that length of road of any of the following operations, namely:-

(i) building, industrial or demolition operations;

(ii) the removal of any obstruction to traffic;

(iii) the maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of that length of road;

(iv) the laying, erection, alteration or repair in or on land adjacent to that length of road of any sewer or any main, pipe or apparatus for the supply of gas, water or electricity or any telecommunications apparatus as defined in Section 4(3) of the Telecommunications Act 1984.

(b)for fire and rescue service, police or ambulance purposes;

(d) for the purposes of agriculture on any land adjacent to that length of road or for or in connection with the conveyance or haulage of timber felled upon such land;

(e) for or in connection with the conveyance of goods to or from any premises on or adjacent to that length of road, or any other road accessible from and only from that length of road;

(f) to proceed to or from any premises which are situated adjacent to that length of road and at which time the vehicle is to be, or has been, garaged, serviced or repaired.

(g) to access to and egress from any premises which are situated adjacent to that length of road to proceed and to return from the said premises along the same route

(h) is a public service vehicle as defined in section (2)(1)(a) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 being a stage carriage being used in the operation of a local service

5. The Council are satisfied that for preventing damage to the roads or buildings on or near them and for preserving or improving the amenities of the area through which the lengths of road specified in the Schedule to this Order run by restricting the use of the said lengths of road by vehicles over 7.5 tonnes maximum gross weight, it is requisite that Section 3(1) of the Act should not apply in relation to this Order.

PART III

General

6. The restrictions imposed by this Order shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any restrictions or requirements imposed by any Regulations made or having effect as if made under the Act or by or under any other enactment.

7. For the avoidance of doubt any reference in this Order to a length of road shall be deemed to be a reference to more than one length of road where the context requires it.

8. Any reference in this Order to a Statute or Statutory Instrument shall include reference to any re-enactment or replacement thereof.

9. This Order shall come into operation on the day of 2019 and may be cited as the “Kirklees Council (Traffic Regulation) (No.4) Order 2018”.

GIVEN under the Corporate Common Seal of the Council of the Borough of Kirklees this day of Two thousand and Nineteen.

THE CORPORATE COMMON SEAL of THE COUNCIL OF BOROUGH OF KIRKLEES was here unto affixed in the presence of:

Assistant Director, Legal, Governance and Monitoring /Authorised Signatory

SCHEDULE

Download the full document and schedule, here. (Word docx)

KIRKLEES COUNCIL
(TRAFFIC REGULATION) (No.4) ORDER 2018
VARIOUS ROADS IN FLOCKTON MOOR, EMLEY,MIDDLESTOWN AND OVERTON

NOTE: This a re-advertisement due to the addition of the service bus exemption to the order. Previous objections will still be taken in to consideration.

The Council of the Borough of Kirklees propose to make the above Order under their powers in the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 the effect of which, as it affects lengths of road in Flockton Moor, Emley, Middlestown and Overton in the Kirklees district, will be to apply a 7.5 tonne weight restriction to the following roads:

1. The route consisting of Paul Lane, Moor Top Lane, Lenacre Lane, Westfield Lane, Jagger Lane, Chapel Lane, Beaumont Street, Upper Lane, Ash Lane and Woodhouse Lane, in a generally south-eastern direction;
• from its junction with the A642 Wakefield Road
• to its junction with the A636 Wakefield Road

2. A637 Barnsley Road in a generally eastern direction;
• from a point 170 metres south east of its junction with A642 Wakefield Road
• to a point 100 metres east of its junction with Hardcastle Lane.

3. The route consisting of Cross Road, Old Road and Hardcastle Lane, in a generally south-western direction;
• from its junction with the A642 Wakefield Road
• to a point on the A637 Barnsley Road 91 metres east of its junction with Hardcastle Lane.

4. The route consisting of Green Lane, Old Road and Hardcastle Lane, in a generally south-western direction;
• from its junction with the A642 Wakefield Road
• to a point on the A637 Barnsley Road 91 metres east of its junction with Hardcastle Lane.

5. The route consisting of the un-named road immediately west of 184 Old Road, Old Road and Hardcastle Lane, in a generally south-western direction;
• from its junction with the A642 Wakefield Road
• to a point on the A637 Barnsley Road 91 metres east of its junction with Hardcastle Lane.

6. The route consisting of Grange Lane, Old Road and Hardcastle Lane, in a generally south-eastern direction;
• from its junction with the A642 Wakefield Road
• to a point on the A637 Barnsley Road 91 metres east of its junction with Hardcastle Lane.

ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER ONLY. NO ON SITE CHANGES. Reason: to clarify that the restriction allows access to premises within the boundary of the order to enable appropriate enforcement and for service buses.

NOTE: This a re-advertisement due to the addition of the service bus exemption to the order. Previous objections will still be taken in to consideration.

A copy of this draft Order, together with the plans showing the affected lengths of road and a statement of reasons for proposing the Order may be examined during normal office hours at:-

• 1. Customer Service Centre, Civic Centre 3, Huddersfield
• 2. Or web address: www.kirklees.gov.uk/trafficregulation.

If you wish to object to the proposed Order you may send grounds of your objection in writing to reach the undersigned by not later than 18th February 2019, quoting reference DEV/JE/D116-1804.

Dated this 18th day of January 2019.

Julie Muscroft – Assistant Director – Legal, Governance and Monitoring Kirklees Council, 2nd Floor, High Street Buildings, High Street, Huddersfield, HD1 2ND

Download the Notice of Proposal document, here (Word docx)

Other documents

Flockton TRO Plan 1 (pdf)

Flockton TRO Plan 2 (pdf)

14 January 201914 January 2019

14 January 2019 Update

At the bypass steering group meeting, on Monday 14 January 2019, the following key items were mentioned:

It is the intention of the group to submit the bypass petition to Kirklees Council on 13 February 2019.

Later in this week of 14 January, there will be a notification for HGVs over 7.5T that they will not be permitted to travel through Flockton from the Grange Moor end of the village, and local Police patrols will be ready to enforce this. (There will be some specific exceptions, such as service buses).

Sometime soon, there will also be some new road signs for the school, on approach from the west side of the village, travelling east.

20 December 201820 December 2018

20 MPH Still Going Ahead

On 20 December 2018, Cllr. John Taylor informed the Flockton Community, via facebook, that:

"I have just been notified by Highways that the proposal for a 20 mph limit through the centre of the Village received no objections during the legal consultation period. " Full response from Highways is shown below:

"The legal advertisement for the speed limit changes in Flockton finished on Friday 14 December and we received no objections to the proposals.

"The next step is for us to contact the school in the New Year to run the competition for the artwork at the bottom of the 20 mph signs, with judging taking place at the end of January. Whilst the school are designing the signs we will look to install all the poles and kit, ready for making the 20 mph live in February."

If anyone has any questions I can be contacted at or 07831 810096

6 December 20186 December 2018

Flockton Pavement Parking

Some comments from our facebook group (3 December 2018, onwards)

Parking issues have been discussed on the Flockton Community facebook group, over the past few days, following a police presence. David Rawling explains:

"As stated on there, this matter has now been brought to the attention of this group, with some background information, mainly for non-residents unaware of the “history”.

"Firstly though, road users need to be aware that several cars may now have had to resort to parking in the road itself, having no alternative parking spaces. The numbers having to do this will probably increase as the village continues to grow. Some subsequent very slight delays may occur at peak times, whilst traffic negotiates any vehicles parked in these places. Owners obviously would prefer to not have to do this, but feel there is no other option now. Apologies to anyone affected by this.

"Why has this been necessary then? The new central development firstly resulted in the original club car park going (used by several residents I believe), followed by the removal of the “lay-by”, originally intended for customers of the old post office by day, and residents in the evening, generally. Subsequently, several vehicles parked on the widened pavement, some unfortunately not leaving, or not being able to leave, due to ongoing building work, the regulation space of 1.2 metres for pedestrians to get through, especially those with children and pushchairs. This actually caused a little friction previously within the groups, not to be repeated hopefully, as we all have one common aim.

"Both Kirklees Highways and the police have been aware of this particular problem for some time now. Some started parking on the new development but were requested to move their vehicles by the building company, due to ongoing work, and also with people moving into their new properties. Those who had continued to park on the pavement, close to the access road, obstructed the view of anyone pulling out from there. As had been discussed with the authorities and mentioned [on the facebook group] recently, the police duly appeared as noted above.

"Similar problems exist at other points within the village too. Section 106 monies could, and should, have been used to resolve these foreseeable problems. Another matter though for now.

"We all know the easiest solution to this problem. Some short term pain could potentially result in a long term gain. "

Some extracts from the replies to the above posting (names removed for privacy)

"They [builders and Kirklees] cannot expect to remove the parking availability and Not have people having to find alternatives. The trends are towards multi car households so the problem will only increase. The builders should have been required to provide a replacement for the lay-by parking at the very least."

"I don't think Kirklees will give a hoot about the roadside parking as it's not affecting them at all. Knowing them, they will double yellow both sides of the road as that's a cheaper option and again penalise the residents of Flockton, rather than deal with the actual issues that you originally started the campaign for."

Reply from David Rawling:
"That wouldn’t surprise me either. But how would people be able to even drop off or have deliveries made etc? Their representative basically said they’d rather have the “illegal”pavement parking than the legal roadside parking!
The plain truth is they don’t know what to do with the “problem that is Flockton”. Their own words."

"There’s a lot of mixed reactions to parking outside houses on Barnsley road, unfortunately a lot of complaints where made about pavement parking, after the lay-by was removed by the building firm. I have seen a lot of photos on these Flockton pages complaining about pavement parking; now everyone is parking legally it’s still an issue! The police officer, who came out the other day, informed one of the neighbours there was no law against parking outside our houses… regardless of “designated parking spaces” beside, behind or anywhere to our properties."

24 November 20186 December 2018

Road Routes Affecting Flockton – Public Consultation Sessions

At Council on 7 November 2018, the Motion proposed by Cllr Richard Smith & Seconded by Cllr John Taylor was approved by the Council. This committed the Cabinet to:

"undertake an assessment of any impact upon the village of Flockton & B6118 from the NKOR and A62 scheme and to ensure that due consideration is given to the issues in Flockton prior to any work starting on either of these road schemes.”

What we would like to do is encourage as many people as possible to comment on this proposal once it becomes available and to ask what the impact will be on B6118 and Flockton itself, as the Motion has committed them to considering this impact. (Please read full information, below the session dates).

Details of Proposed Open public sessions:

Thursday 6th December 2018 3-7pm @ Bradley & Colnebridge WMC
Colne Bridge Rd, Huddersfield HD5 0RH

MONDAY 10TH DECEMBER 2018 3-7PM @ THE ROOM, BRIGHOUSE
The Old Town Hall, Thornton Square, Brighouse HD6 1EA

TUESDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2018 3-7PM @ ST THOMAS CHURCH BRADLEY
St Thomas Gardens, Huddersfield HD2 1SL

WEDNESDAY 12TH DECEMBER 2018 3-7PM @ HUDDERSFIELD TOWN HALL
Corporation St, Huddersfield HD1 2TA

MONDAY 7TH JANUARY 2019 3-7PM @ THE ROBERTTOWN (FORMER WMC)
Roberttown Ln, Liversedge WF15 7LT

TUESDAY 8TH JANUARY 2019 3-7PM @ BATTYEFORD BC PAVILION
442A Huddersfield Rd, Mirfield WF14 0EE

THURSDAY 10TH JANUARY 2019 3-7PM @ BRADLEY & COLNEBRIDGE WMC
Colne Bridge Rd, Huddersfield HD5 0RH

Plans to create £69m Cooper Bridge bypass to M62 finally revealed.

Full information

At Council on November 7th, the Motion proposed by Cllr Richard Smith & Seconded by Cllr John Taylor was approved by the Council. This committed the Cabinet to:

This is helpful timing as the proposed improvements to the A62 are now coming forward for public consultation. Importantly on December 5th the proposals for changes at Cooper Bridge will be made public. These involved the creation of a new road from between Bradley Bar and the Railway Viaduct to connect up to the Brighouse M62 junction. It is stated that this has the potential to remove 1500 cars an hour at peak times from the three Nuns roundabout.

Clearly this new road has the potential to make journeys from A62 to the M62 at Cooper Bridge easier and this therefore has the potential to attract more traffic to use this route and hence up the B6118 and through to Flockton to access the M1.

What we would like to do is encourage as many people as possible to comment on this proposal once it becomes available and to ask what the impact will be on B6118 and Flockton itself, as the Motion has committed them to considering this impact. I would also like people to ask what assessment has been done of the potential impact on air quality and road safety. It is worth remembering that each individual is entitled to submit a comment, so I would encourage households where there is more than one adult that each individual submit a comment but ensure that they are not identical as otherwise they will be dismissed, just change around the order of the points made and change some of the words so each submission is counted individually. The aim is to get as many submissions as possible so that once more the need for a Bypass is self evident and keeps the issue live.

There are also a number of public consultation sessions and I have copied the details of these below, clearly the ones at the WMC by Mama & Papas will be the nearest but if you are able to attend any of these and view the proposals and ask questions about the Flcokton impact, this again would be very helpful. Once the website link to the public consultation goes live on 5th December I will share this so people can log on and add comments.

Cllr. John Taylor