Cllr Sarah Whitebread met with local residents and representatives from Streetworks, the Highways department, EDF and the Varsity Hotel today to discuss the problems of the uneven stretch of road on Thompson’s Lane outside the entrance to the new Varsity Hotel.  The camber of the road is currently very uneven, causing drainage problems.  There is also concern that the double yellow lines which should run right along the road by the entrance to the hotel have never been replaced.  This makes it difficult to enforce restrictions on cars stopping there.  At the moment cars frequently stop there, forcing passing vehicles onto the wrong side of the road to meet vehicles travelling the other way from the New Park Street junction.

The Highways department have agreed to resurface the stretch of road outside the hotel and also replace the double yellow lines.  The resurfacing will happen in September, with the double yellows possibly sooner.

Cllr Sarah Whitebread commented “It was a useful meeting and good to get residents and representatives from the hotel and council staff together to talk things through.  I’m very pleased the highways team have agreed to carry out the resurfacing work and repaint the yellow lines – this should go some way to resolving the problems at this junction.”