Haverhill News

Resident's Parking Spaces

St Edmundsbury Council have now started providing parking spaces for residents. For many years now residents have been expected to provide their own parking spaces or find parking on public roads. The provision outlined below appears to show a change of heart.

Residents in Great Whenetham will find it easier to leave their cars outside their own homes after 12 new parking bays were created to ease traffic congestion.

The bays, in Raynsford Road, will be officially opened on Monday. They were created after Great Whelnetham Parish Council approached St Edmundsbury for help to ease problems caused by parking on the road. Lines of cars had meant residents struggled to get their vehicles out of their drives while parents dropping children at the local school also faced difficulties.

St Edmundsbury created the new bays in partnership with the parish council. In total, the project cost £14,500, with money coming from a number of sources, including the borough’s Rural Areas Community Initiatives Fund and Suffolk County Council locality money from Cllr Terry Clements.

Cllr Clements, St Edmundsbury Portfolio Holder for Transport, Planning and Leisure, said:

“These new parking bays will make life much easier for residents in Raynsford Road and will improve safety for children at the school by easing traffic congestion. We’re delighted to have been able to help turn this project into a reality, as without the borough council grant and the county’s locality funding, the scheme simply wouldn’t have been able to go forward.”