Following the Annual Parish Meeting in the village hall on Thursday 16 April, and a subsequent meeting between Chris Bailey (Chair, Parish Council) and Sergeant Greg Harrison (Northampton Police), the following steps are being put in place.
HGV traffic
1. Sergeant Harrison has made a request to WNC Highways for some additional 7.5-tonne limit signs when turning right after the roundabout at Brixworth.
2. The police will periodically be at the entrances to the village from both Sywell Roundabout and Brixworth Road. Lorries in excess of 7.5 tonnes travelling through the village, without making a stop, will be issued with a fine of £50. Companies frequently caught flouting the regulations will be contacted and, if this fails to stop the lorries, the Traffic Commissioner will be contacted to take action.
3. To give this maximum impact, Sergeant Harrison would like as many people as possible in the village to sign up for Northamptonshire Talking. You can sign up here and use this site to highlight traffic issues. In this way, we can help isolate and record the worst times and days for the HGVs. (Sergeant Harrison has volunteered to come to the next Parish Council meeting to explain.
Rat-run drivers
1. Sergeant Harrison will also organise a periodical police presence along Poplars Lane and Back Lane to deal with speeding, rat-run drivers.
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These are all positive moves and to be welcomed. And the more we can do to support this by pushing back and reporting drivers that flout the rules and disrespect our village, the more likely it is that these preventative measures will work.
Vive la révolution!