Cllr Nicholas Coombes presented a set of written questions to the Conservative Cabinet this week, including three on the zebra crossing on the Tesco site. A single response was provided to all questions which answered none of them:

Q – does the demonstration of 50 protesters show clear public demand?

Q – do the accidents at the site, including a fatality, show a high level of pedestrian risk?

Q – if Tesco were to provide extra funding, would it be spent on a zebra crossing?

A – Pedestrian crossings require fulfilment of numerical criteria relating to vehicles and pedestrians. A count is programmed for early July.

It appears that the cabinet member is unwilling to commit to an answer even now, one year after Tesco were given planning permission. It is also odd that a pedestrian and traffic survey is only being planned now, when surely one should have been prepared for the Tesco planning enquiry last year and certainly for the changes made to the pedestrian crossing.

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The full question and answer session is now available at https://sslvpn.bathnes.gov.uk/http/cis/committee_papers/Executive/Exec080625Mins/080625zAppx01QA.pdf