Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

Over the years, Entry Hill residents have raised a range of concerns over time, with local Councillors, with BANES and with Avon and Somerset Police.  These include:

 

• Commuter parking, which means that residents (or visitors) can’t park near their homes, and increases in traffic congestion and parking on the pavements.

• High traffic levels, with Entry Hill used as a ‘rat-run’ to avoid congestion elsewhere, creating problems including:

  • Risks to pedestrians from vehicles driving up onto the pavement

  • Pollution, both noise and air quality

  • Excessive speed (above the 20mph limit) and dangerous overtaking

  • Tailgating, failure to give way and general aggression

  • The difficulty in safely exiting from side roads

  • Damage to parked cars.

 

Entry Hill is extensively used by pedestrians, for walking to work, to catch trains and buses, for local shops and leisure and by children going to school. It’s a lovely area to live in, with good, local services, and these issues impact on being able to enjoy it to its full.

Liveable Neighbourhoods form a key part of BANES' current approach to managing ever increasing traffic and air pollution across the city; and to help address the very local issues of the sort described above.