Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Any Questions on the DIY Streets Consultation?
Anthony Kirkwood from Oxfordshire County Council has just sent out the requisite consultation documents to everyone on BCR today. Your response is due back to him by 12 FEBRUARY. PLEASE, if you support this long-awaited and hard-earned opportunity, ensure Anthony hears from you. If you still have queries and concerns that you dont have satisfactory answers to, please contact a member of the BCRA management committee, as it is more than likely your concern or suggestion has been considered at either one of the all-street or committee meetings, and much work done to ensure the proposal reflects it where possible. This post will hopefully attract a good deal of chatter up until the filing deadline, so please make use of it. Thanks!
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2 comments:
Delighted to get the roll-over-and-beg letter from the council today (what will happen to us if we fall short of 'best horticultural practices current'?) So well done BCRA committee.
Are tweaks to the plan still possible? It occurs to me that siting potted trees in front of existing trees (items 2,9,13,15) is a shame given that they will show less well and do nothing for the ungreen and brick dominated stretches of the street. I would be happy for 13 to be moved to the other side of my garden, in front of my path, and for it to be a large planter; maybe others feel the same?
Sue Taylor
Alas, the 'tracking' exercise performed by Sustrans would forbid such a move (tree at location 13 to move as you suggested), even though in reality, a fire truck could squeeze through the space just fine.
But we have to go with what the tracking demonstrates is a guaranteed uninhibited passage for long emergency vehicles.
Several streets in Oxford that would simply not pass the test (Southmoor and Observatory Streets for instance). But they're not proposing to put planters and cycle racks in the street.
We (BCRA Committee) noticed this unfortunate pairing up of trees in front gardens and streets, which is simply a matter of siting trees where there was enough clearance in front of drives. So from the point of view of fair distribution of the greenery, it doesn't succeed as well as it might have. But it's the result of accommodating vehicles' appetite for unimpeded tarmac consumption.
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