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A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don’t quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes.
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Come with me to Brockenhurst,
Come with me to Brockenhurst, New Forest. It has a train station and a bike shop and in the summer season the area attracts visitors, many of whom are happy to brave the local roads for the simple pleasure of cycling. I’m not a great fan of the New Forest for road cycling, mainly because there’s just too many idiot drivers. There’s some decent winter gravel riding east of Brockenhurst, if you like miles of woodland.
Anyway, this all concerns the main shopping street which, you’ve guessed it,is narrow and filled with parked cars. After several years of to-ing and fro-ing, a highways improvement is going to start this month. Drainage repairs, pavement improvements, speed humps.
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parish council – flying in the face of demand
Brockenhurst Parish Council removed the cycle racks in Brookley Road in late May 2023 following damage sustained in a traffic incident. The cycle racks, located outside of Tesco Express, were hit over the Bank holiday weekend and once the damage was reported the racks were taped closed. The tape was subsequently removed by cyclists parking their bikes. Despite continued heavy demand for their use over the Bank holiday period the cycle racks have been removed due to health and safety concerns
.https://brockenhurst.gov.uk/brookley-road-active-travel-scheme/parish council acts suprised about something under discussion for 3 years, tries to bail out when it gets near someone actually doing something (other than removing useful cycle parking) :
In a recent email to Hampshire County Council, the Parish Council highlighted that the implementation plan of which we have just been made aware fails to satisfy important conditions originally agreed upon during extensive consultations over the past three years. The Parish Council has always been committed to working collaboratively with Hampshire County Council to develop a scheme that benefits both parties and the local community
https://brockenhurst.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/PRESS-RELEASE-22nd-March-2025.docx
The County Council’s plans and timescale https://www.hants.gov.uk/transport/transportschemes/atfbrockenhurstimprovements#step-3
Letter: How can councillors ride roughshod over voters in Brockenhurst?
(Paywall)
picture – a peep at the location – the cycle parking is just out of sight on our left, outside Tesco
One more concreted over grass
One more concreted over grass verge will fix it
Oasis Academy: could grass be turned into parking spaces?
Cllr Desayrah said: “Whilst it’s really nice to have some green space around the flats, given the chronic lack of parking available to residents and the displacement of school pick-up time parking, I think it might make sense for Platform Housing to consider making the grass verges into residents’ parking and I will ask them to consider it.
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/25058177.oasis-academy-grass-turned-parking-spaces/
cyclist should be made to
cyclists should be made to have number plates – Interesting police video here of the range of illegal number plates – we’d got, as the caption says, tinted, a couple where the plate is mis-stated with illegal spacing or amended characters, a CF effect, a couple of colour underlays, the wording underneath has to show the maker’s information.
An invitation to get hauled over, I’d have thought.
It’s a swan uprising.(As opposed to a swan upping, which is a different thing altogether.)
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