This is how I see it.

The first thing that Dartmouth Road needs is more car parking to help the shops survive; and the second thing is for pedestrians and traffic to be able to move freely.

I disagree with the notion that we would benefit from more public seating areas because, for such a short stretch of road (from pools to station), the seating by the pools is more than sufficient - especially as we're surrounded by nice parks and green spaces. Er, plus the prickly subject of street drinkers.

The bottle-neck by Boots and Bunka etc needs to be a clearway with high pavements and posts fitted to safeguard pedestrians and to prevent vehicles parking by bumping up onto the footpath. Obviously there should be ramps for buggies and wheelchairs.

The trees outside the Sylvan Post and Paddy Power are too big, dark and overbearing so they should be replaced with a nice line of smaller, even 'happier' ones; and part of the pavement there should be given-over to loading bays to service the shops at that end of the road.

Even more controversial, part of the grassed area and the front line of trees should go to create 9 more car parking spaces. With some skill and imagination the it could be made to blend-in quite well. I am aware that it goes against the rose-tinted-specs vision and so-called importance of the pedestrian flow into the pools from the station but I'm sure we'd get over it.

I agree with the ongoing calls for a footbridge and I would argue against the case for including prohibitively expensive lifts on the basis that disabled shoppers could be given one or two dedicated bays on Dartmouth Road as well as the fact that they can already use Sainsbo's car park anyway.