The Council notices in the Herald last week included details of further parking restrictions planned for Wantage.

‘No waiting at any time’ (double yellow lines) parking prohibition will be introduced on Charlton Village Road on both sides from a point 45 metres east of the junction with Aldworth Avenue for 80 metres.

This will cover most of the area where parents currently park when dropping off or collecting their children for Charlton Primary School and Acorns Preschool.

It will be interesting to see if the new restrictions are enforced – especially between 8.30 and 9.00 and 2.45 to 3.30.

There will also be a raised Zebra Crossing on a flat top road hump only 30 metres east of the junction with Aldworth Avenue.

Further parking restrictions are proposed for Springfield Road.

The notice was a little unclear but appeared to suggest that the existing parking prohibition on the east side of Springfield Road near the junction with Charlton Road will be extended by 9 metres.

On the west side of the road the existing double yellow lines will be extended by 69 metres.

Also on Springfield Road there will be double yellow lines for 45 metres in all directions at the junction with Mary Shunn Way.

I thought it was already illegal to park near a junction but I guess it’s an admission that there aren’t enough parking spaces for all the new homes they have given permission for in this area.

You can see details and submit comments (which have to be in by 30 September) at https://letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ in the Highways section.

The County Council will review the responses and prepare a report to be presented to the Cabinet Member for Highway Management at a public meeting scheduled for later in 2022.

While I’m on the subject of the new development off Springfield Road, the alleyway between Mary Shunn May and Charlton Road used to be a rough sloping footpath and was described by the developers as a key pedestrian link.

Unfortunately, the developers don t seem to have read their own material as they levelled up the alleyway and built a flight of steps at one end making it total inaccessible to anyone who can’t manage steps.

When the discriminatory design (against the 2010 Equality Act) was pointed out to them, they submitted a retrospective planning application to get approval for the steps.

Nine months later we still await the decision of the District Council.