Loveridge Avenue traffic problems

John Fareham and John Abbott report that legal issues are impeding progress towards the implementation of a traffic scheme for Loveridge Avenue. The funds to implement the more elaborate and expensive option under consideration are still safely stashed away. The officers stand ready to consult with residents on which scheme they prefer. All that remains to be done is to overcome the objections of the Council’s legal officers who seem to equate something being unprecedented or unusual with its being potentially illegal. We know the law can be complicated, but we nevertheless think that if they’re right, they should be able to prove it with chapter and verse. We are therefore encouraging them to furnish us with evidence of why they think the scheme might be legally problematical; as soon as we get results on this we will pass them on.