Belmont Gardens Access

Policy moved to improve consistency of use of TTROs for emergency yellow lines

10/23/20241 min read

Van squeezes between parked car in Belmont Gardens June 2024 (c) H Ross
Van squeezes between parked car in Belmont Gardens June 2024 (c) H Ross

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City Cllr Beal reported at the 22 October meeting that he has been promoting new policy at the City of Edinburgh Council to make it easier to identify and respond to cases where there is an urgent need for yellow lines. Such a need has existed in Belmont Gardens for many months. Elsewhere, Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders have sometimes been issued to ensure refuse collection and emergency vehicle access. Cllr Beal hopes to: make more clear the means by which this need can be reported; make more objective and consistent the resulting action.

[22/06/2024]

Local residents have compiled evidence to urge the provision of yellow lines in Belmont Gardens. Especially since the enforcement of the pavement parking ban, the street has been rendered often inaccessible, which exposes residents to safety risks.

Given the risks, City Cllr Beal has been pursuing the need for a speedier solution than going through the lengthy standard process, as has been done for other streets in the city with the same difficulty. He reported at the meeting 21 May that it had been escalated to the Chief Executive.

[Sources: Minutes of 16/04/2024; 21/05/2024]

[Image credit: (c) H Ross]