News Thumbs up for yellow line hospital plans
Town councillors have backed plans to introduce double yellow lines on roads around Goole Hospital.
The proposals are aimed at stopping people parking near junctions and blocking the roads near residents' homes.
If sanctioned by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council the double yellow lines - which restrict parking at any time - would be put in place near junctions around St George's Green, which is next to the hospital site.
There would be more double yellows on and around junctions between Gatesby Road and Whincroft Avenue, Western Road and Gatesby Road, Charles Drive and Woodfield Road, Woodland Avenue and Halifax Avenue, Gatesby Road and Woodland Avenue, and Western Road and Murham Avenue.
At a meeting of Goole Town Council on Monday Brian Robertson, the clerk to the council, showed members a letter he had received from Denise Flint, assistant engineer with the East Riding Council's Traffic and Parking department, in which she said that concerns had been raised about people parking around the hospital site due to "site developments".
The fear was that more motorists would use the roads surrounding the hospital to park their cars once the new health centre was built inside the grounds.
Ms Flint said that, to prevent further problems arising, the council was proposing waiting restrictions at various junctions to improve lines of sight for pedestrians and motorists, and thereby improve road safety.
Town councillors backed the plans and also suggested more double yellow lines should be introduced at the junction of Whincroft Avenue and Halifax Avenue - one of the junctions not designated for double yellow lines.
The town council will now recommend that the East Riding Council includes that junction in its plans for restricted parking on roads near the hospital site.
It is understood that East Riding Council bosses may be worried that planned parking charges at the hospital site will prompt visitors and patients to park on surrounding roads.
But the double yellow lines would prevent them doing this at some of the busiest junctions.
It is believed that the North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Hospitals Trust does indeed plan to introduce charges at the hospital, though no formal decision has yet been made.
Goole councillor Malcolm Boatman said he was "concerned" that people going to see a doctor might not be able to find anywhere to park.
Published on 19th June 2008 in News.
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