TRAFFIC: Issues with main street raised with the council HERE are the latest announcements from our community news correspondent Kathryn Smith for Burton-in-Kendal. Concerns from parishioners raised during the July parish council meeting included the overgrown state of Slape Lane and traffic on Main St. The condition of Slape Lane has been reported to Cumbria Countryside Access who has responsibility for footpaths and bridle ways as the council could not be involved formally in any self-help group. A concern about traffic was of buses waiting in the Square with engines running to make up time. This caused extra pollution and traffic congestion at the narrowest part of Main St.
AT THE parish council meeting it was announced that Cllr Jane Haigh had resigned from the council with immediate effect. The resulting casual vacancy will be an agenda item at the February meeting. At the Open Forum, a resident explained that an alteration to the original planning permission given for the development of the Royal Hotel had resulted in the erection of a fence which blocked a gate which was his rear exit. The amendment had not been seen either by the parish council or the affected residents but the council explained that, as the new plan had been approved by South Lakeland District Council (SLDC), this matter would have to be pursued with SLDC.