The Westfield Ward Councillors have been taking forward residents’ concerns about parking in Bachelor Hill. Unfortunately due to the system that replaced the Estate Improvement Grant (voted on by tenants) this has taken much longer than we had hoped.

Officers have finally come back with proposals for up to an additional 5 parking spaces using the Eco-grid (plastic hexagonal system used in the rest of Bachelor Hill) in the area in front of the garages. (see highlighted below) This will involve the planting of three trees to replace the existing willow in front of the salt bin which council officers are stating needs to be removed so that drivers can make observations before driving out of these spaces.

This is part of a range of schemes to tackle parking issues across the ward using Ward Committee and Housing Estate funding.

So far 90% of residents returning the form from a door to door survey of residents living in Bachelor Hill have backed the scheme which would see option 1 and option 2 delivered.