Having followed this thread I guess there is a conflict between what Dartmouth road represents, do we want it to be a vibrant shopping/cafe area or a drop off for the swimming pool/gym. Many years ago before the swimming pool was built I asked a council rep about the provision of car parking and was told they expected most people to come on public transport. I thought this was rubbish then and you only have to look at the cars after school and at weekends to see it is not the case now.

Any improvement to parking on Dartmouth Road will probably displace about 30 cars into the local streets which are already hammered by commuters, the schools and pools visitors. I doubt it will benefit the local shops but just make it easier for pool users to come and go without extra revenue for the local shops. Yes, you can build the best bridge in the world across the railway but if I can park my car nearer the swimming pool for free, I'll do it, you'll just waste money, you might as well turn Louise House into a multistorey car park keeping the frontage of course which would probably be a more pragmatic use of money.

I think we have to prioritise Dartmouth road for buses and restrict car usage.



Why did we save Louise House so we could put a big fence around it?