Roundabout plea for new Wyre Forest crematorium (From Kidderminster Shuttle)
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Roundabout plea for new Wyre Forest crematorium
4:17pm Wednesday 4th January 2012 in News
ACCESS to the new Wyre Forest Crematorium and Cemetery would be “much improved” by placing a roundabout at a busy nearby junction according to Stourport town councillors.
Currently, people driving to the Minster Road site from Stourport must turn right across the A451 dual carriageway after going through traffic lights at the junction of Walter Nash Road and Oldington Lane, where the suggested roundabout would be.
The council passed the motion, put forward by Labour councillor Jamie Shaw, unanimously at a meeting last night.
Mr Shaw said: “This is partly for the sake of safety but also for the dignity of the thing. If there is quite a long funeral cortege, for example, there will be people stopping in the road to make the right turn. It is convoluted and dangerous.”
The turn would lead drivers into a slip road next to Lawrence Skip Hire, back on to Oldington Lane, and through the lights again to reach the cemetery’s entrance on the left.
“If we were simply turning around a roundabout, that would make things much simpler and safer,” said Mr Shaw.
The town council made the request to Worcestershire County Council, which deals with highway issues, to plan for the scheme to come forward for consideration in its 2013/14 budget.
Mr Shaw said: “We have been told the cost of a roundabout could be up to £1 million.
“As we would have to wait for next year’s budget [Independent Community and Health Concern councillor] Jim Parish suggested we would also accept an alternative if one could be thought up.
“We are hoping to get a response fairly soon and we will, hopefully, have a timetable for the scheme shortly.”
The new Wyre Forest Crematorium and Cemetery held its first funeral and cremation in December and is planning an official opening for February.
Comments(12)
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FlipC - The Mad Ranter
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9:20am Thu 5 Jan 12
Point 2 - Although the description mentions "highway alterations" neither the online application form nor documents filed with it mention or show any such thing.
Point 3 - In fact none of the online applications show any highway alterations excepting 11/0239 which includes them solely as a reference point for the gates they wish to erect.
walkerno5
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9:55am Thu 5 Jan 12
Councils should not be allowed to review and approve their own plans, this is either indicative of special treatment or incompetence, which was it?
Mary79
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11:46am Thu 5 Jan 12
neilhar
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6:39pm Thu 5 Jan 12
Alternatively, build a tip style slip road across the central reservation and then install movement sensors that switch the stourport bound lights to red until the traffic has passed through the slip junction. a perfect solution for two or fifty cars. much cheaper too one would imagine.
Or you could send them through an industrial estate to the back gates. not pretty but practical and not a £1m cost. we just don't have it.
neilhar
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6:40pm Thu 5 Jan 12
Alternatively, build a tip style slip road across the central reservation and then install movement sensors that switch the stourport bound lights to red until the traffic has passed through the slip junction. a perfect solution for two or fifty cars. much cheaper too one would imagine.
Or you could send them through an industrial estate to the back gates. not pretty but practical and not a £1m cost. we just don't have it.
neilhar
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6:41pm Thu 5 Jan 12
And no John, I am not going to let the parking thing go, ever!
FranOb
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4:48pm Tue 10 Jan 12
FlipC - The Mad Ranter
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5:10pm Tue 10 Jan 12
jflawson
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7:46pm Tue 10 Jan 12
and new year.All the comments about access to new crematorium i did comment over 4 months ago about this potential problem.
I find it difficult to suggest a roundabout by the lights by new council offices would cost one million pounds. Surely to modify the one by the LOOM & SHUTTLE
which is already their would be a sensible cost effective partial solution.
It has been suggested the new crematorium could be accessed via Parker Drive in my full-time job selling steel i deal with two companies down their and they feel that this would not be a good idea as their is a lot of heavy industrial traffic down moving in
and out of there.
jim lawson
kidderman
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9:11pm Tue 10 Jan 12
simples !!!!!!!!!!!
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