I’m sure there is a logical explanation, and I am just too blinkered to see it, however, I have a question.
If a school has zig-zag school markings outside it, it is for the safety of those arriving at and leaving the school premises, particularly the children.
Now I know a lot of children arrive at this school by bus, hence the mini buses, but many also travel by foot and car too. So what is the logic of having the markings, only for the school buses to park all the way along them?
Can I just point out I am very aware Brent Knoll School is a Co-operative Trust special school for children aged 4–17 with complex social, communication and interaction difficulties, including autism.
Agreed that the provision for parking at the school is insufficient.
The root of the problem may be in the origins of the choice of site to build the new school.
The size of the site itself was never going to be adequate for the the size of buildings and other provisions required for its day-to-day operation. Compromise was always going to feature in the designers’ considerations and parking clearly was one subject of that compromise and seemingly a de-minimus level was provided.
And the result is as Snazy reports - onstreet parking of the buses.
A hidden side-effect that manifested itself was that there is no staff parking provision and naturally people used roads in the area to park their cars and one of the natural locations was Priestfield Road amongst others.
Residents there soon found that during school hours their own parking needs were compromised by this new influx of cars, presumably those used by people at the school. The consequences were that over the next couple of years the number of in-garden driveways and pavement crossings multiplied significantly there.
