To all who live on or off Arbury Road east
PLEASE CHECK THE ATTACHED DRAWINGS to find out what will be happening outside where you live.
We have just (yesterday) been sent the attached set of plans for the Residents’ Parking Scheme.
It was sent by Clare Rankin who is the County Council’s Principal Active Travel officer – i.e. it was not provided by the Greater Cambridge Partnership but by a council official.
(The drawings are dated February 2025 so it isn’t clear why the GCP hasn’t released them to us long ago.)
The set of road plans shows what the GCP is going to start implementing some time next month.
Although labelled ‘detailed’ by WSP, the engineering consultancy working for the GCP, the drawings remain very difficult to interpret.
You only need to look at pages 2 and 3 which cover Arbury Road east.
You will need to use this key to decipher what is meant.
Those of you who live on the north side of Arbury Road east (even numbers) will see that the northern boundary does seem to include your side of the road (but not your properties?) – it is difficult to tell from the level of detail provided.
As expected, no parking bays are being installed on the northern side of the road, just double yellow lines.
If you have concerns about this, please contact your local councillors ASAP – addresses shown in cc’d above.
Ian Manning is our local County Council whom you should expect to represent you on highways-related issues which are the responsibility of the County Council.
Those of you who live on the south side of Arbury Road east (odd numbers), please check the drawings to make sure you understand what is happening directly outside where you live.
If you have any concerns, again, please contact Ian Manning.
If you do contact him, please copy ARERA in via info@arera.org.uk to share your concerns.
You can also contact us via ARERA’s website where we are going to post this information so that it can be accessed by those who aren’t ARERA members,
Ian Cooper
Committee member, Arbury Road East Residents Association