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| The new railings in Cary Lane, Brigg - close to the Wilkinson store
New railings and bollards have been installed in Brigg at the Market Place end of Cary Lane, close to the Wilkinson store - making the area more attractive to visitors, particularly those who arrive at our bus station and head off towards the town centre for a spot of shopping.
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Apart from the railings - Brigg also needs designated Loading Bays....
ReplyDeleteVisit any other town's pedestrian area, either delivery vehicles are totally banned, or there are specified time when deliveries can be undertaken.
Delivery drivers are quite use to having to load/unload in a Loading Bay some distance away from the delivery address. It's all part of their routine and expectations...
Brigg seems to be running scared - the town seems to be running both with the hare, as well as the hounds when it comes to enforcing delivery vehicles in the town centre.
For example, there is expressed alarm at the number of vehicle in the pedestrian zone, but at the same time, it doesn't seem to want to upset the local businessman who insists on loading/unloading his van outside his premises at 1pm in the afternoon.
Forget about the element of upsetting some self-interested individual, let's have some objective action and do the right thing and get this confused mess sorted out.
Like other like towns, there has to be both clearly defined structures and enforcement.
Created Loading Bays at appropriate locations about the periphery of the town centre - if someone want to delivery at so-called inconvenient times then such things as pump-trucks and pallets have been around for years...
Just a small additional point -
ReplyDeletea recent survey of the various land plots behind the backs of shops on Old Courts has revealed some interesting results - for example, some plots were found to owned by businesses who were previously unaware they owned the plot; other plots didn't appear to have any legal owner....and I, understand, NLC is to improve their image of such blot-spots.
Why not utilise these 'orphaned' sites as Loading Bays - this could ameliorate the regular moan that some shop-keepers do not have anywhere to unload, other than outside their premises.....