Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the Road Safety team regarding safety outside Ravenscote school.

The Local Committee (Surrey Heath) agree that

(i)     Ravenscote Junior School has completed Teaching Assistant Pedestrian Awareness Skills courses which have been well received. The school will be supported by the county council’s Sustainable Travel Team in the creation of a Walking Bus, and Park SMART initiatives.

(ii)    The highway improvement proposals presented (parking restrictions at Upper Chobham Road, a raised road table and speed cushions) be added to the list of possible future highway improvements for Surrey Heath. The local committee will then decide whether to allocate funding from their future annual budget for highway improvements. This will depend upon the extent of the problem and the estimated costs compared with other schemes, and the funds made available to the local committee.

The Local Committee received a report from the Road Safety team regarding safety outside Ravenscote school.  The major concern was that there had been 3 child incidents around the school.  The school had been active in trying to address the issues.

The Chair stated that since the production of the report, the Frimley Fuel Allotments charity had leased a sizeable plot of woodland to act as a Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG) in respect of the 120 home development by Linden Homes about 300 – 400 meters from Ravenscote School along the Old Bisley Road.  The SANG had been established to encourage ramblers, dog walkers etc to exercise in the woodland which stretched westward past Ravenscote School.  It was not known whether the Frimley Fuel Allotment Charity (or Linden Homes) would re-open the two previously established car parks in the woodland to encourage and assist the anticipated visitors to the newly established SANG.  Should they do so, the Chair felt it would open up the welcome opportunity for parents to drop off and collect their children from Ravensctoe School in safety and mitigate the present congestion caused by cars parking along the narrow Old Bisley Road and on the pavements of Upper Chobham Road.  If the two car parks were to be re-established, the safety aspects of children and parents crossing the Old Bisley Road would have to be considered as mentioned in para 3.14 of the report.

The Local Committee (Surrey Heath) agree that

(i)     Ravenscote Junior School has completed Teaching Assistant Pedestrian Awareness Skills courses which have been well received. The school will be supported by the county council’s Sustainable Travel Team in the creation of a Walking Bus, and Park SMART initiatives.

(ii)    The highway improvement proposals presented (parking restrictions at Upper Chobham Road, a raised road table and speed cushions) be added to the list of possible future highway improvements for Surrey Heath. The local committee will then decide whether to allocate funding from their future annual budget for highway improvements. This will depend upon the extent of the problem and the estimated costs compared with other schemes, and the funds made available to the local committee.