30mph limit plans for road between adjoining villages

A COUNCIL is to give priority to establishing a 30mph speed limit on a road which links two villages.

Waterhouses Parish Council is seeking approval from county highways for the speed limit to be established on Waterfall Lane which runs between the Staffordshire Moorlands villages of Waterhouses and Waterfall.

At the last meeting of the parish council, the authority discussed a letter from a resident raising concerns over speed on the highway.

This follows a series of earlier concerns raised by people living in the area.

Councillor Bob Turner said: “Some time ago we did a report over areas of 30mph limits in the parish.

“However, Staffordshire County

Council expected us to fund it ourselves. This would take the whole yearly budget of the parish council to fund it.

“We are doing our best for our community, but we should now push for it again. We should incorporate all of Waterfall Lane and concentrate on this area first.”

Chairman of the parish council, Councillor David Stone, said: “Traffic regulation orders are expensive. However, a scheme for Waterfall Lane is ongoing. The 30mph speed limit should go from the A523 to Waterfall.”

He added that a scheme for parking on Waterfall Lane near the junction with the A523 was also in process.

In a separate but related matter, it was brought to the council’s attention that charging on the Peak Park car park in Waterhouses, which services the Manifold Track, is encouraging cars to be parked on the pavements in the village, causing pedestrians to have to walk in the road.

The council agreed to write to the Peak Park to ask them to remove their fees to encourage drivers to use the car park instead of the nearby road.

In a separate issue councillors raised the poor state of a road leading into Calton village. Councillor Stone said: “Green Lane leading into Calton is breaking up and there are a lot of potholes. It is being used by a lot of big vehicles. It is in urgent need of something being done.”

Councillor Bob Turner said there had been a vast increase in HGVS

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Councillor John Goldstraw said: “A lot of large vehicles also use the road for delivering items in the village. The road is unfit for purpose.”

Councillors agreed to contact the portfolio holder for highways at Staffordshire County Council and the county councillor for the area, Councillor Gill Heath, to look into the issue.