Stradbroke Parish Road Safety Assessment

Introduction

Ethos have been working with Stradbroke Parish Council on a road safety assessment within the village, following which producing a report containing a series of possible interventions. The Parish Council, after reviewing the report have identified those interventions they believe are appropriate and feasible and should improve the known issues. This has been broken down into two phases. Phase 1 has a budget of £60,000. Phase 2 is subject to future funding.

This consultation seeks your views on the interventions that have been chosen for both phase 1 and phase 2. All interventions have to be supported and delivered by Suffolk County Council. 

This is, therefore, a critical part of the process as the Parish Council need to demonstrate the interventions are well supported within the community.

We would ask you to review the information contained on this consultation page, and complete the survey, which should take no more than 5 minutes unless you have specific comments to make.

Ethos Road Safety Assessment

The initial work undertaken was to review the existing situation to identify the key road safety issues within the village. The key issues identified in Stradbroke village included:

• Traffic speed into and through the village;
• Restricted footways;
• Existing location and condition of traffic signage and road markings;
• Facilities for pedestrians to cross the carriageway;
• Pedestrian accessibility;
• On-street parking.

After undertaking a detailed assessment within Stradbroke village, and understanding the main traffic and road safety issues, the following road safety interventions have been considered suitable for implementation.

These road safety interventions were shared with the Parish Council for review in our report which can be found here.

Stradbroke Parish Council

Stradbroke Parish Council have reviewed the report, determining which of the interventions they considered feasible / appropriate for the issues specifically identified by the community:

1. Reduced visibility for both vehicles and pedestrians at spar junction caused by parking;
2. Excessive Speed on Laxfield Road;
3. Speed on New Street between 30mph and centre;
4. Speed at entrance to village Queen Street;
5. Congestion and vulnerability of pedestrians Queen Street;
6. Lack of crossing point Wilby Road.

The Parish Council have looked at every permutation of interventions that could be progressed at this stage, with the aim of addressing as many of the issues as possible, within the constraints of an initial £60,000 budget.

At a meeting on the 11th March 2024, agreed for those interventions to be progressed into Phase 1.

Interventions considered feasible/appropriate but outside of current budget capabilities and not having such an impact on the issues specifically raised by residents were placed into Phase 2.

Interventions not considered suitable for progression

Within the road safety assessment report produced by Ethos, there were a further eight interventions which the Parish Council considered either impractical or unsuitable:

• Continuous footway at Mill Road;
• Controlled crossing on Church Street;
• Gateways on New Street or Wilby Road approaches;
• Mini roundabout;
• Raised or textured road surfaces;
• Removal of white lines;
• Road enhancements at Church Street;
• Building out footway to shrink junction – Queen St / Church St.

Next steps

• Consultation period with the community;
• Meeting with Suffolk County Council to progress agreed interventions.