Saturday, November 24, 2012

DECEMBER MIGHT SEE PROGRESS MADE ON DECIDING THE STATUS OF MARKET LANE IN BRIGG



The status of Market Lane in Brigg now looks likely to come up for consideration at the December meeting of North Lincolnshire Council's planning committee.
The topic was listed on the agenda of the October meeting, and a very thorough written report prepared, but was deferred at the last minute.
Coun Ben Nobbs gave a brief update to fellow Brigg town councillors at a recent committee meeting in the Angel Suite.
Market Lane runs from the Market Place through to Spring's Way, near Tesco - formerly the site of the town's cattle market.
As the Market Place is a pedestrian zone (don't get Brigg Blog on its hobby horse about the number of vehicles to be seen in the town centre!) the issue of vehicles using Market Lane as a thoroughfare seems, to us, to be a non-starter in 2012 - many years after pedestrianisation arrived.
The question of status now seems to centre on the the public's right, or otherwise, to walk along it (however that is couched in legal terms).
It should be pointed out that there are parallel, alternative ways of getting from the Market Place to Spring's Way on foot - down Cary Lane or alongside the Spring's Parade shops.
Coun Nobbs, in raising the issue with fellow town councillors, made reference to the passing of another year without things being concluded.
"It just seems to me to be a long, slow process," he said.
It could be that North Lincolnshire Council will not be the decision-making body on this issue and it might go to Government level. All should become clearer next month.




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