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To: Devon County Council and Devon Highways
Protect our property - a call for road restriction warning signs now
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We ask Devon Highways and Devon County Council to consider this call for road restriction warning signs now.
Why is this important?
Please support this campaign to protect the buildings of Dawlish from vehicle incidents, and to protect the local terraces of Dawlish. We call for road warning signs to protect road users as well as residents' property.
On the evening of Wednesday 17th May 2023, for approx 3 hours a delivery van was stuck on Hoopern Terrace, in between the house on the corner of Frederick Terrace and the walls of the houses on Hoopern Terrace.
The driver was unaware of the narrow road ahead, nor of the uneven road camber, and had merely been following the sat-nav and Google Earth maps.
How many more incidents like this need to happen before caution and road restriction signs are in place on Penfield Gardens, and narrow road warning signs on digital maps and sat-nav systems?
We have a small cul-de-sac junction sign at the foot of Hoopern Terrace, but there are no road restriction or caution signs on Penfield Gardens, either at the top of Hoopern Terrace, on the junction with Penfield Gardens, nor at the other end of Penfield Gardens at the junction with the back lane to Clifton Terrace, nor at the junction of Penfield Gardens and Old Town Street.
Neither are there are any road restrictions signs on Sat-Nav systems that vehicles use, nor on digital maps, and there really does need to be, as soon as possible please.
This evening’s incident has inconvenienced the delivery team, the road rescue vehicles, the local residents, the family in the house at Frederick Terrace corner, families in houses on Hoopern Terrace, and doubtless more people wanting to walk up / down Hoopern Terrace.
The incident caused structural damage to the house on the corner of Frederick Terrace, when the vehicle tipped because of the uneven camber of the road.
The campaign for road restriction warning signs has been going on for over 6 years - how many more incidents and damage to property has to occur before warning road restriction signs are installed on digital maps, sat-nav systems, and on these roads?
On the evening of Wednesday 17th May 2023, for approx 3 hours a delivery van was stuck on Hoopern Terrace, in between the house on the corner of Frederick Terrace and the walls of the houses on Hoopern Terrace.
The driver was unaware of the narrow road ahead, nor of the uneven road camber, and had merely been following the sat-nav and Google Earth maps.
How many more incidents like this need to happen before caution and road restriction signs are in place on Penfield Gardens, and narrow road warning signs on digital maps and sat-nav systems?
We have a small cul-de-sac junction sign at the foot of Hoopern Terrace, but there are no road restriction or caution signs on Penfield Gardens, either at the top of Hoopern Terrace, on the junction with Penfield Gardens, nor at the other end of Penfield Gardens at the junction with the back lane to Clifton Terrace, nor at the junction of Penfield Gardens and Old Town Street.
Neither are there are any road restrictions signs on Sat-Nav systems that vehicles use, nor on digital maps, and there really does need to be, as soon as possible please.
This evening’s incident has inconvenienced the delivery team, the road rescue vehicles, the local residents, the family in the house at Frederick Terrace corner, families in houses on Hoopern Terrace, and doubtless more people wanting to walk up / down Hoopern Terrace.
The incident caused structural damage to the house on the corner of Frederick Terrace, when the vehicle tipped because of the uneven camber of the road.
The campaign for road restriction warning signs has been going on for over 6 years - how many more incidents and damage to property has to occur before warning road restriction signs are installed on digital maps, sat-nav systems, and on these roads?
How it will be delivered
This petition was presented to the County Councillor for Dawlish, Cllr Martin Wrigley, on 10th July 2023, with a request to take it to Devon Highways and the Cabinet at Devon County Council.
We will wait for the road signs to appear.
