RESIDENTS and councillors are divided over plans to shut two roads at one end, 24 hours a day.
Brighton and Hove City Council has confirmed plans to close two junctions in the city as part of trial measures to make roads safer and ensure social distancing outside schools. From Monday, February 22, the junctions will be closed between Somerhill Road and Lansdowne Road in Hove, near Brunswick Primary, and between Queen’s Park Rise and Queen’s Park Terrace, outside St Luke’s Primary. There are plans to install bollards, so only cyclists and pedestrians will have access to these streets from one end.
Brighton and Hove City Council is reintroducing the School Streets scheme later this month. The council is bringing in trial closures in roads outside three schools in the city - Downs Junior School, Brunswick Primary School and St Luke’s Primary School- from February 22. In addition to the closures during school drop-off and pick up times, between 8am and 10am and 2pm and 4pm, two roads will be closed at one end at all times, with access for cyclists and pedestrians only. The junctions will be closed between Somerhill Road and Lansdowne Road in Hove, near Brunswick Primary, and between Queen’s Park Rise and Queen’s Park Terrace, outside St Luke’s Primary.
The entire length of Florence Place, outside Downs Infants School
Grantham Road outside Downs Junior School, from the junction with Ditchling Road to the junction with Edburton Avenue
Somerhill Road outside Brunswick Primary School, south of the junction with Somerhill Avenue The council said it is trialling physical measures, to determine which model works best in the long term . Residents living in or close to these roads have been sent a letter about the measures, which are being installed on a trial basis through Experimental Traffic Regulation Orders. The restrictions will not apply to: • residents who live on the street