It is apparent that there are two key areas along Church and High Street in Market Lavington where the footpath is perilously close to the road (adjacent to the community centre and also adjacent to the surgery and primary school). Given the road is two-way coupled with the sheer size and weight of traffic that transits along the B3098 there is an accident waiting to happen.
There has already been an incident of an elderly resident being struck by a car side mirror resulting in serious damage to their arm and in recent years Rose Cottage on Church Street was damaged when two vehicles that were far too big for the road attempted to pass at a narrow point resulting in one of them crashing into the cottage's retaining wall.
Despite the recent warnings in the form of buildings damage and injury, the inaction of the local authority (Wiltshire Council) to take charge of the situation and remedy the short comings with relatively modest and affordable measures must be rectified. The council has a responsibility to protect the populous, the first duty of government, and the situation needs to be rectified immediately before grievous injury or death is the result of inaction.
This ePetition ran from 30/11/2020 to 21/01/2021 and has now finished.
66 people signed this ePetition.