RELIEF ROAD PLEA

Another public plea for a relief road to be built across the fields from the Wrawby Road/Churchill Avenue junction to South View/Horstead Avenue has been made by Coun Tom Glossop.
His appeal came at the Neighbourhood Policing Meeting in the Angel Suite as further concerns about Grammar School Road congestion were voiced.
Brigg Town Council has long called on the highway authority (North Lincolnshire) to install this short relief road to greatly improve the flow of traffic to and from Springbank estate, which currently has only one route - Grammar School Road.
Pete Scott, North Lincolnshire Council's head of safer roads, explained the difficulties presented by Grammar School Road, where many of the homes are terraced and without drives for parking. He stressed the council had to balance the requirements of local residents with those of motorists using the road, especially as the heaviest traffic flows were confined to short periods in the early morning and late afternoon, only on school days.
NF adds: Perhaps North Lincolnshire Council is waiting for the Brigg North Development Scheme, in which some sort of second entrance/exit to the Spring Bank estate has been suggested. It's not long since the council gave temporary permission for an access road to be laid from Wrawby Road/Churchill Avenue, alongside Day Bros' fields, to Horstead Avenue, where lorries were delivering materials to a new housing development under construction. Unfortunately, once the buildings were completed, the temporary road was removed and returned to agriculture (see picture).