A community speedwatch scheme in action in Hampton in Arden
Are you fed up with cars speeding through our village?
Would you like to do something positive about it?
Dickens Heath Parish Council would like to set up a speedwatch scheme in partnership with the police
but they need your help!
Please contact: Helen Marczak, 1 Wharf House, Waterside, Dickens Heath, B90 1UE Tel: 07772 469271 Email: dickensheathpc@hotmail.com Website: www.dickensheathpc.org.uk
To be honest, I don’t see this as a major issue given the purpose built speedbumps and twisty turny road layout of the village, not to mention the countless parked cars which help to slow down traffic. I’d rather the Council or Parish Council (or whoever) concentrate on finishing the huge amount of unfinished or poorly surfaced roads.
Having witnessed countless near misses, having almost been squashed by hurling gritters, nutjob mums on the school run and speeding white vans, all of whom pay little or no attention to parked cars, speed bumps, twisty roads or pedestrians… and after seeing a drunk, speeding man in a posh car crashing into a wall right outside our house I’d say there’s definitely a problem…
I notice another bollard and fence has been demolished on the rumbush lane bend earlswood side of the village . Some of the driving and parking in our village leaves a lot to be desired.