HGVs parked on Cemetery Road in Silverdale,
Newcastle-under-Lyme, create dangerous obstructions and make the
road unsafe to travel on. Cemetery Road is a main road in the area
and is busy, particularly in the mornings and evenings. Queues of
lorries, sometimes up to a dozen or more, on Cemetery Road between
Keele Road and Silverdale Road (approximately 0.3 miles) turn that
stretch into a one lane road and reduce or eliminate visibility
around curves and at junctions, and it makes the road dangerous for
all road users (cars, cyclists, pedestrians, motorbikes, work
vehicles, lorries, etc). This is a daily occurrence, starting
around 6:30am and lasting through the entire morning. The lorries
are queuing to enter Walleys Quarry Landfill site.
Lorries are meant to wait at designated areas but they do not.
Walleys Quarry has proposed that the gates of the landfill open
earlier as a way to address the problem. The community does not
feel that this is an appropriate solution – the capacity for
stationary lorries in Walleys Quarry is small (8) and could not
accommodate all lorries that park on Silverdale Road at most given
times. Further, as the worst of the queues tend to form
mid-morning, opening the gates earlier would not solve
anything.
We have tried reporting this to the police, to the county council,
to the highways agency, to the borough council, to our local MP, to
the landfill owner, and even through complaints pertaining to
non-compliance with planning permission. Every agency tells us that
the responsibility lies somewhere else. In the meantime we wait to
hear news about a tragic accident caused by lorries on Cemetery
Road.
In light of the hazards of this situation, the community is asking
that Staffordshire County Council to act with urgency
Started by: Simon Burgess (StopTheStinkFFOC)
This ePetition ran from 17/05/2022 to 26/07/2022 and has now finished.
703 people signed this ePetition.
There is also a paper version of the same petition which has been passed to the County Council and the total number of signatures is 2765.
This petition has reached the 2,500 threshold and as per our constitution the relevant senior officer will give evidence at a public meeting of the Prosperous Overview and Scrutiny Committee.
Thanks
Zach Simister