Update

The next BPMRA meeting will be held this coming Tuesday, 2nd March at 7pm in St Josephs Parish Centre. Details of last weeks meeting with the Council officers will be top of the agenda! Questions and answers from the meeting will then be posted here on the blog.

Minutes of the last meeting on the 9th February at St Josephs Parish Centre:

Amanda opened the meeting by showing copies of letters sent to Mr Stephen Pickering, CSO Stuart Hodgkiss, and Chief Executive Sunderland Royal Hospital, also letters of complaint about the consultation and its proposals written by two residents of Ewesley Road to the Leader of the Council and Mr Stephen Pickering (Deputy Chief Executive Sunderland Civic Centre). No reply had yet been received from the Hospital Chief Executive. Stephen Pickering had written requesting a meeting with representatives of the association on February 23rd. Following discussion the meeting agreed the basic format of questions they felt needed answering, particularly how any parking management scheme would be policed? Also how was the parking provision for hospital staff to be monitored and where would they park? How the proposed double yellow lines would affect residents own parking. Hopefully Mr Pickering would also be able to give some idea of how the consultation process had gone and the outcome. K Wilkinson, B Smith, T Hall and
L Ranton agreed to attend the meeting along with E Lardner and A Robinson.
K Wilson stated she could provide information from research into other successful city residential parking schemes presently operated to show Mr Pickering.

Work would soon be starting on knocking down and rebuilding Pallion Health Centre. When finished the new Health Centre would have parking for their own staff and patients only. The meeting agreed this would also have an increased affect on parking in the side streets in Millfield.

Any Other Business
The police were putting notices on parked cars causing obstruction. S Adamson to enquire if more could be printed for the residents to place on cars.

The St Gabriels bus stop on Chester Road had been put out of action. The nearest bus stop for residents of St Gabriels Estate, ABC Streets and the Westlands to get to the City Centre was now Priory Grove or the Hospital entrance on Chester Road. Elderly and disabled residents were being made to suffer for a slight increase in traffic flow at the already congested crossing. The meeting was informed Nexus were responsible for the positioning of bus stops. A letter to be written to them requesting them to reconsider their actions.

The meeting closed at 8.15pm
The next meeting to be Tuesday 2nd March at 7.0pm in St Joseph’s Parish Centre.