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Manningham Safer Neighbourhood Scheme: January 2025 update

Introduction

Measures which form the Manningham Safer Neighbourhood Scheme were implemented from summer 2024 with the aim of improving road safety and making people feel safer walking, cycling or wheeling (using a wheelchair or mobility aid) around the Manningham and Heaton areas.

The scheme is formed of a mixture of permanent and temporary measures. The area has seen new permanent measures implemented including new crossings and the narrowing of junctions to make it safer and easier to cross. These works are now complete.

At the same time, a number of temporary road point closures have been implemented at locations in the area on a trial basis. These measures are designed to discourage through-traffic that had been using the area as an alternative to the main arterial roads.

The road point closures are designed in a way that ensures that local businesses and residents can still access their premises.


Extension of the road point closure trial

The trial period of the road point closures was intended to run for six months to enable local people to experience the measures and provide feedback before a decision was made on whether to retain, remove or amend them.

However, the Council recognises that the initial three months of the trial period was impacted by the installation of temporary traffic management measures such as traffic lights.

These had to be installed to allow for construction works to be undertaken to implement the permanent road safety measures. However, these temporary traffic management measures caused congestion in the area which made it more difficult to clearly determine the positive or negative effects of the trial road point closures.

Feedback on the trial road point closures has varied across the area with some residents feeling they have had a negative impact while others have fed back that they have been positive.

With the construction traffic management measures having impacted the first three months of the trial of the road point closures, it has been determined that the trial period should be extended by a further three months.

This is to ensure that a full six-month trial of the measures, without undue influence from other road works, is provided to inform public feedback and future decisions, as originally intended.

We will also measure the wider impact of the scheme on traffic flows and speeds through the installation of a number of Automatic Traffic Counters (rubber tubes across the road) and traffic cameras (that collect anonymised traffic flow and speed data) over the coming few weeks.

The trial of the road point closures will now run up to the end of March 2025. An assessment of the road point closures will then take place to decide whether to remove them, amend them or retain them.


How to provide feedback

We’re keen to hear your views, and right up to the end of the trial period, you can provide feedback by:

  • Filling out the survey on this webpage. You can access this by scrolling down to the bottom of this page and clicking on the ‘Complete Survey’ button.
  • Emailing us at: manningham@future-bradford.co.uk
  • Calling our freephone on - 0808 196 9119
  • Writing to us at: Freepost BFD Highways


Once the trial period has finished, we will review and analyse both the public feedback and traffic monitoring data that we have received over the duration of the trial. All of this will then be taken into account so a decision can then be made on whether to keep, amend or adjust the point closures.

The Manningham Safer Neighbourhood Scheme is designed to create an environment in which people, including children, feel more comfortable walking around the area and crossing roads. The measures are also designed to benefit wheelchair users and cyclists.

We want to encourage more people to make shorter, neighbourhood journeys such as dropping children off at school, visiting friends and family in the area, going to the local shops and park, and attending prayers, without using a car. If we can achieve this, we can make Manningham a better place to live. We can reduce road traffic, air pollution and congestion. We can better manage parking in the area, providing parking spaces while leaving pavements free for pedestrians.

Following a consultation in late 2022 and early 2023 where we asked people what the transport issues were in the area and what they would like to see as part of the scheme, we have considered the feedback that we received and the views of local councillors.

We are proposing a number of measures which are explained on this web page. The vast majority of these measures would be implemented on a permanent basis. Some measures, such as the ‘Point Closures’ and ‘School Streets’ would be implemented on a trial basis.

We want to hear your views on these proposals. The engagement period on the Manningham Safer Neighbourhood Scheme will run from Thursday 8 February until Thursday 7 March 2024 and there are a number of ways you can get involved including filling in our feedback form at the bottom of this page, sending us an email, giving us a call or posting your feedback.

What measures are being proposed?

During the consultation which we ran in late 2022 and early 2023, we received feedback on what residents and businesses would like to see make up the scheme. The following measures are now proposed, based on comments received:

  • New road crossings which make routes to the park and schools safer and easier to use - as people said they had difficulties crossing roads.
  • Speeds bumps and junction changes which will slow traffic down - as the speed of traffic was highlighted as a problem.
  • One-way streets, working in a complementary way, to increase the number of parking spaces on Victor Street and Leamington Street - as parking was highlighted as an issue.

We are also proposing a number of other permanent measures to improve road safety, including:

Permanent Measures

20 mph Zone

A speed limit of 20 mph for all roads in the area from Wilmer Drive to the north, and Oak Lane to the south and from Lister Park to the east and Quarry Street to the west.

You can view a map of this area below:


To view this map as a PDF Click here


Road Crossings

A total of 23 new crossings to make getting around on foot or by cycle safer and easier. These include a mixture of:

  • Informal Crossings – a dropped kerb and tactile paving with a refuge in the middle of the road. There are no traffic lights at these crossings, but they make it easier to cross the road safely.
  • Signal Controlled Crossings (Toucan) – a crossing where the user presses a button and traffic lights bring traffic to a stop.
  • Zebra Crossings – a crossing marked with white lines on the road and yellow flashing lights on the pavement. Pedestrians have priority over cars at these crossings.
  • Parallel Crossings – similar to a zebra crossing, but has a specific lane for cyclists on the crossing as well as pedestrians.

Speed Humps

As speeding vehicles were an issue that was raised during the first consultation, we are proposing speed humps at six new locations to slow traffic down and make the area safer for pedestrians and cyclists.

Junction Treatments

A junction treatment involves narrowing a junction and installing a raised speed bump to slow traffic down when entering or exiting the road. By slowing traffic down when entering or exiting the road that has been treated, we can make crossing the road easier and safer.

Temporary measures

Point Closures

As part of this scheme, we will implement point closures on some roads for a trial period.

A point closure is located at a specific point along a road to stop vehicles travelling the full length of a road to use it as a cut-through the area – effectively turning the road into a cul-de-sac. This reduces vehicle traffic and speeds making the area safer and more pleasant for residents and makes it easier to walk and cycle in the area. Residents and businesses can still access their property in their vehicle from one or both sides of the point closure.

The trial of the point closures will be done using an ‘Experimental Traffic Regulation Order’ (ETRO), which allows the closures to be installed temporarily before a decision is made on whether to install them permanently. The trial would last for a minimum of six months but could be extended further, to a maximum of 18 months, before a decision is made on whether to install them permanently or to remove them.

The point closures will be temporary, and either concrete plant boxes or vehicular deterrent paving, which can be easily adjusted or removed, should the trial be unsuccessful.

Vehicular deterrent paving is a bumpy road surface that discourages private cars from driving over it, but still enables service vehicles, such as emergency service vehicles and refuse lorries, to access the road.

We are proposing that nine point closures in total are trialled across the area.

You can view a map of the proposed measures below:



To view this map as a PDF Click here



School Streets

School Streets are intended to improve the safety of children being dropped off or picked up at school. A School Street is a road outside a school where motorised traffic is temporarily restricted during school drop-off and pick-up times. The restriction applies to school traffic and through-traffic. Outside of these times, the road is accessed by all vehicles as normal.

Residents are allowed access in and out of the road during restricted times with the use of a resident pass they are provided with.

We are currently in the process of speaking to schools in the area to gauge their interest in School Streets.

If any schools decide they would like to trial a School Street, our School Streets team will be in touch with parents and local residents to notify them separately. It will then be up to the individual school whether to keep the School Street beyond a trial.

Active Travel Support

If you would like to walk, use a wheelchair or cycle around the neighbourhood more, we can help. If you live in Manningham or Girlington, and would like to find out what support is available, including low-cost electric-bike hire and training, then please email our Travel Well Team – walk, wheel & cycle – on activetravel@bradford.gov.uk.

Traffic Monitoring

To work out what impacts the scheme might have, monitoring of vehicle speeds and traffic flows in and around the area will be taking place both before and after the scheme is delivered.

Cameras and rubber tubes have recently been laid down in the area to monitor what is happening now, before the scheme is delivered, for a period of three weeks.

Next Steps

The engagement period will run for four weeks, from Thursday 8 February until Thursday 7 March 2024.

After the engagement period has ended, we will review and analyse the feedback we have received and decide if we need to make any changes to the scheme which we are proposing on this website.

Once a decision has been made on whether to implement the scheme as proposed on this website, or with some changes, we will send a letter to the community to let you know what has been decided and the next steps.

As mentioned, the 'Point Closures' will be implemented first for their trial period. The permanent measures will be implemented following this and will be constructed over the course of a year in order to minimise disruption.

Find out more, get in touch, have your say

Fill out the feedback form below, or if you would like to get in touch to ask any questions, or provide feedback in a different way, you can also contact us by phone, by email or in writing.

Call our Freephone information line on: 0808 196 9119

Email us at: manningham@future-bradford.co.uk

Write to us: Freepost BFD Highways.

Manningham Safer Neighbourhood Scheme: January 2025 update

Introduction

Measures which form the Manningham Safer Neighbourhood Scheme were implemented from summer 2024 with the aim of improving road safety and making people feel safer walking, cycling or wheeling (using a wheelchair or mobility aid) around the Manningham and Heaton areas.

The scheme is formed of a mixture of permanent and temporary measures. The area has seen new permanent measures implemented including new crossings and the narrowing of junctions to make it safer and easier to cross. These works are now complete.

At the same time, a number of temporary road point closures have been implemented at locations in the area on a trial basis. These measures are designed to discourage through-traffic that had been using the area as an alternative to the main arterial roads.

The road point closures are designed in a way that ensures that local businesses and residents can still access their premises.


Extension of the road point closure trial

The trial period of the road point closures was intended to run for six months to enable local people to experience the measures and provide feedback before a decision was made on whether to retain, remove or amend them.

However, the Council recognises that the initial three months of the trial period was impacted by the installation of temporary traffic management measures such as traffic lights.

These had to be installed to allow for construction works to be undertaken to implement the permanent road safety measures. However, these temporary traffic management measures caused congestion in the area which made it more difficult to clearly determine the positive or negative effects of the trial road point closures.

Feedback on the trial road point closures has varied across the area with some residents feeling they have had a negative impact while others have fed back that they have been positive.

With the construction traffic management measures having impacted the first three months of the trial of the road point closures, it has been determined that the trial period should be extended by a further three months.

This is to ensure that a full six-month trial of the measures, without undue influence from other road works, is provided to inform public feedback and future decisions, as originally intended.

We will also measure the wider impact of the scheme on traffic flows and speeds through the installation of a number of Automatic Traffic Counters (rubber tubes across the road) and traffic cameras (that collect anonymised traffic flow and speed data) over the coming few weeks.

The trial of the road point closures will now run up to the end of March 2025. An assessment of the road point closures will then take place to decide whether to remove them, amend them or retain them.


How to provide feedback

We’re keen to hear your views, and right up to the end of the trial period, you can provide feedback by:

  • Filling out the survey on this webpage. You can access this by scrolling down to the bottom of this page and clicking on the ‘Complete Survey’ button.
  • Emailing us at: manningham@future-bradford.co.uk
  • Calling our freephone on - 0808 196 9119
  • Writing to us at: Freepost BFD Highways


Once the trial period has finished, we will review and analyse both the public feedback and traffic monitoring data that we have received over the duration of the trial. All of this will then be taken into account so a decision can then be made on whether to keep, amend or adjust the point closures.

The Manningham Safer Neighbourhood Scheme is designed to create an environment in which people, including children, feel more comfortable walking around the area and crossing roads. The measures are also designed to benefit wheelchair users and cyclists.

We want to encourage more people to make shorter, neighbourhood journeys such as dropping children off at school, visiting friends and family in the area, going to the local shops and park, and attending prayers, without using a car. If we can achieve this, we can make Manningham a better place to live. We can reduce road traffic, air pollution and congestion. We can better manage parking in the area, providing parking spaces while leaving pavements free for pedestrians.

Following a consultation in late 2022 and early 2023 where we asked people what the transport issues were in the area and what they would like to see as part of the scheme, we have considered the feedback that we received and the views of local councillors.

We are proposing a number of measures which are explained on this web page. The vast majority of these measures would be implemented on a permanent basis. Some measures, such as the ‘Point Closures’ and ‘School Streets’ would be implemented on a trial basis.

We want to hear your views on these proposals. The engagement period on the Manningham Safer Neighbourhood Scheme will run from Thursday 8 February until Thursday 7 March 2024 and there are a number of ways you can get involved including filling in our feedback form at the bottom of this page, sending us an email, giving us a call or posting your feedback.

What measures are being proposed?

During the consultation which we ran in late 2022 and early 2023, we received feedback on what residents and businesses would like to see make up the scheme. The following measures are now proposed, based on comments received:

  • New road crossings which make routes to the park and schools safer and easier to use - as people said they had difficulties crossing roads.
  • Speeds bumps and junction changes which will slow traffic down - as the speed of traffic was highlighted as a problem.
  • One-way streets, working in a complementary way, to increase the number of parking spaces on Victor Street and Leamington Street - as parking was highlighted as an issue.

We are also proposing a number of other permanent measures to improve road safety, including:

Permanent Measures

20 mph Zone

A speed limit of 20 mph for all roads in the area from Wilmer Drive to the north, and Oak Lane to the south and from Lister Park to the east and Quarry Street to the west.

You can view a map of this area below:


To view this map as a PDF Click here


Road Crossings

A total of 23 new crossings to make getting around on foot or by cycle safer and easier. These include a mixture of:

  • Informal Crossings – a dropped kerb and tactile paving with a refuge in the middle of the road. There are no traffic lights at these crossings, but they make it easier to cross the road safely.
  • Signal Controlled Crossings (Toucan) – a crossing where the user presses a button and traffic lights bring traffic to a stop.
  • Zebra Crossings – a crossing marked with white lines on the road and yellow flashing lights on the pavement. Pedestrians have priority over cars at these crossings.
  • Parallel Crossings – similar to a zebra crossing, but has a specific lane for cyclists on the crossing as well as pedestrians.

Speed Humps

As speeding vehicles were an issue that was raised during the first consultation, we are proposing speed humps at six new locations to slow traffic down and make the area safer for pedestrians and cyclists.

Junction Treatments

A junction treatment involves narrowing a junction and installing a raised speed bump to slow traffic down when entering or exiting the road. By slowing traffic down when entering or exiting the road that has been treated, we can make crossing the road easier and safer.

Temporary measures

Point Closures

As part of this scheme, we will implement point closures on some roads for a trial period.

A point closure is located at a specific point along a road to stop vehicles travelling the full length of a road to use it as a cut-through the area – effectively turning the road into a cul-de-sac. This reduces vehicle traffic and speeds making the area safer and more pleasant for residents and makes it easier to walk and cycle in the area. Residents and businesses can still access their property in their vehicle from one or both sides of the point closure.

The trial of the point closures will be done using an ‘Experimental Traffic Regulation Order’ (ETRO), which allows the closures to be installed temporarily before a decision is made on whether to install them permanently. The trial would last for a minimum of six months but could be extended further, to a maximum of 18 months, before a decision is made on whether to install them permanently or to remove them.

The point closures will be temporary, and either concrete plant boxes or vehicular deterrent paving, which can be easily adjusted or removed, should the trial be unsuccessful.

Vehicular deterrent paving is a bumpy road surface that discourages private cars from driving over it, but still enables service vehicles, such as emergency service vehicles and refuse lorries, to access the road.

We are proposing that nine point closures in total are trialled across the area.

You can view a map of the proposed measures below:



To view this map as a PDF Click here



School Streets

School Streets are intended to improve the safety of children being dropped off or picked up at school. A School Street is a road outside a school where motorised traffic is temporarily restricted during school drop-off and pick-up times. The restriction applies to school traffic and through-traffic. Outside of these times, the road is accessed by all vehicles as normal.

Residents are allowed access in and out of the road during restricted times with the use of a resident pass they are provided with.

We are currently in the process of speaking to schools in the area to gauge their interest in School Streets.

If any schools decide they would like to trial a School Street, our School Streets team will be in touch with parents and local residents to notify them separately. It will then be up to the individual school whether to keep the School Street beyond a trial.

Active Travel Support

If you would like to walk, use a wheelchair or cycle around the neighbourhood more, we can help. If you live in Manningham or Girlington, and would like to find out what support is available, including low-cost electric-bike hire and training, then please email our Travel Well Team – walk, wheel & cycle – on activetravel@bradford.gov.uk.

Traffic Monitoring

To work out what impacts the scheme might have, monitoring of vehicle speeds and traffic flows in and around the area will be taking place both before and after the scheme is delivered.

Cameras and rubber tubes have recently been laid down in the area to monitor what is happening now, before the scheme is delivered, for a period of three weeks.

Next Steps

The engagement period will run for four weeks, from Thursday 8 February until Thursday 7 March 2024.

After the engagement period has ended, we will review and analyse the feedback we have received and decide if we need to make any changes to the scheme which we are proposing on this website.

Once a decision has been made on whether to implement the scheme as proposed on this website, or with some changes, we will send a letter to the community to let you know what has been decided and the next steps.

As mentioned, the 'Point Closures' will be implemented first for their trial period. The permanent measures will be implemented following this and will be constructed over the course of a year in order to minimise disruption.

Find out more, get in touch, have your say

Fill out the feedback form below, or if you would like to get in touch to ask any questions, or provide feedback in a different way, you can also contact us by phone, by email or in writing.

Call our Freephone information line on: 0808 196 9119

Email us at: manningham@future-bradford.co.uk

Write to us: Freepost BFD Highways.

  • CLOSED: This survey has concluded.

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  • Manningham Safer Neighbourhood Scheme - End of Trial Period Questionnaire

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    The first part asks you about your experience of the measures so far. This should take between 4-7 minutes to complete.

     

    The second part asks you about your travel habits. This should take between 3-5 minutes to complete.

     

    We would be grateful for as thorough response as possible.

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