{"id":605,"date":"2012-08-14T16:18:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/?p=605"},"modified":"2023-07-18T15:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T14:37:40","slug":"what-concerns-abbeylands-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/what-concerns-abbeylands-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"What concerns Abbeylands Residents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_615\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-615\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/08\/residents-need-parking.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"615\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/what-concerns-abbeylands-residents\/residents-need-parking\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/08\/residents-need-parking.png?fit=536%2C536&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"536,536\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Residents say they need parking\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Residents say they need parking&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/08\/residents-need-parking.png?fit=536%2C536&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-615 \" title=\"Residents say they need parking\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/08\/residents-need-parking.png?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"Residents say they need parking\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/08\/residents-need-parking.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/08\/residents-need-parking.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/08\/residents-need-parking.png?w=536&amp;ssl=1 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents say they need parking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We ran a small survey over the summer. Not the best time to get a good response rate, and not the largest sample, but we got a sufficient number of returns nonetheless and this has enriched the otherwise impressionistic picture of problems and issues that we have been building up for our end of the High Street. I am mindful that it is still only a snapshot of views (<a href=\"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/abbeylands-survey\/\">Link to the full interactive chart<\/a>) but all the same indicative.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of all problems mentioned, and overwhelmingly so were:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lack of Residents Parking,<\/li>\n<li>Littering around shops, and<\/li>\n<li>Poor Council Consultation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am not sure we needed a survey to tell us there is not enough residents parking, there is no residents parking on the High Street, unless you&#8217;re lucky enough to be a social housing tenant!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Conversely, residents <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">did not<\/span> perceive there were as many problems with:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drug dealing or Drug Use,<\/li>\n<li>Noise from Neighbours (excepting deliveries and a small proportion of residents who do experience problems),<\/li>\n<li>Cyclists on Pavements<\/li>\n<li>Flytipping<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-616\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/08\/cyclists-on-pavements.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"616\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/what-concerns-abbeylands-residents\/cyclists-on-pavements\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/08\/cyclists-on-pavements.png?fit=536%2C536&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"536,536\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"No it is not cyclists on pavements\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;No it is not cyclists on pavements&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/08\/cyclists-on-pavements.png?fit=536%2C536&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-616 \" title=\"No it is not cyclists on pavements\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/08\/cyclists-on-pavements.png?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"No it is not cyclists on pavements\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/08\/cyclists-on-pavements.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/08\/cyclists-on-pavements.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/08\/cyclists-on-pavements.png?w=536&amp;ssl=1 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No it is not cyclists on pavements<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(thankfully after many years our local flytipping site has been reclaimed for a community garden project.)<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, young people did not seem to be identified as a specific problem, though this has been mentioned to me, albeit by a minority. Vandalism and damage to property seem to be less important issues too, though most people said they were &#8216;Sometimes a problem&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Still, more than 50% of residents said the following were either &#8216;Always a problem&#8217; or &#8216;Often a problem&#8217;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unsafe Crossings &amp; General Road Safety<\/li>\n<li>People drunk and rowdy<\/li>\n<li>Noise from boy racers<\/li>\n<li>Inconsiderate parking by delivery vans<\/li>\n<li>Illegal parking, and<\/li>\n<li>Gulls Mess and Dog Fouling level pegging<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We do not have to add the &#8216;Sometimes a problem&#8217; to see that Road Safety issues feature most prominently and\u00a0are by far the greatest concern. Parking related issues were universally mentioned, with no respondents saying they were &#8216;Rarely a problem&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>All in all the snapshot suggests a fairly broad range of typical concerns &#8211; far more perhaps than you&#8217;d expect for a quiet sleepy rural town, which shuts down for almost 2 days a week.<\/p>\n<p>It is of significant concern that there should be such a concentration of road environment issues. \u00a0It is difficult to say but much of this is probably associated with short duration trips to the High Street for errands and convenience shopping. It is equally difficult to see how extending parking duration (90 minutes) or providing additional parking (a proposed new car park at Abbeylands) will resolve these problems as turnover is already high. Unless accompanied by significant new measures that discourage the use of the private car, I wouldn&#8217;t mind betting on greater congestion and parking problems. It would be a shame if the measures were simply restricted to calming, though I believe these would also help.<\/p>\n<p>I have said before that I think there should be significantly better provision for delivery vehicles, accompanied by enforceable restrictions (during non-working hours and at weekends.) \u00a0Also the distribution of the environmental impacts associated with all forms of road traffic should feature as part of the decision making process, as it seems so many of these problems are concentrated at our end (very short term &amp; drop off parking, bus stops, deliveries, excessive speeds).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We ran a small survey over the summer. Not the best time to get a good response rate, and not the largest sample, but we got a sufficient number of returns nonetheless and this has enriched the otherwise impressionistic picture of problems and issues that we have been building up for our end of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/what-concerns-abbeylands-residents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What concerns Abbeylands Residents?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-herring-gull"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/05\/DSC_0288-001.jpg?fit=640%2C429&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1142,"url":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/letter-not-everyone-wants-public-car-parking-at-abbeylands\/","url_meta":{"origin":605,"position":0},"title":"Letter to press: Not everyone wants public car parking at Abbeylands","author":"templar","date":"August 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Not everyone wants public car parking at Abbeylands, Dunbar. Over 50 signatures, all people who live nearby, believe resident parking is a higher priority. Residents have no dedicated parking provision, unlike in Haddington or North Berwick, and what long term parking is now available will be reduced to nothing if\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/topics\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1000,"url":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/response-to-dunbar-traffic-regulation-order-proposals\/","url_meta":{"origin":605,"position":1},"title":"Response to Dunbar Traffic Regulation Order Proposals","author":"templar","date":"May 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I welcome that the council is consulting on these proposals. I have made comprehensive comments on the specific consultation questions and expressed a range of concerns about the proposals - sketchy though they are - first outlined in the Cabinet paper dated 29 March 2011.\u00a0I have annotated a dynamic map\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/topics\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":515,"url":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/the-greater-good-the-case-for-convenient-parking\/","url_meta":{"origin":605,"position":2},"title":"The greater good: the case for convenient parking","author":"templar","date":"June 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"There are 2 stakeholders whose views won\u2019t be heard very loudly in this minority debate about parking versus social housing at Abbeylands. \u00a0The people who could occupy the accommodation that may now not be built, whose voice usually goes unheard. When it is, there\u2019s always an unhealthy voyeuristic angle to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/topics\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The problem with parking","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/05\/DSC_0288-001-300x201.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":801,"url":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/proposed-waiting-and-loading-restrictions-in-dunbar-ensure-high-street-is-resident-parking-free-zone\/","url_meta":{"origin":605,"position":3},"title":"Proposed Waiting and Loading Restrictions in Dunbar ensure High Street is Resident Parking-Free Zone","author":"Barodunum","date":"February 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"East Lothian Council is recommending that the existing Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) for Dunbar be amended to reflect current parking behaviour and road use by residents and businesses.\u00a0A formal consultation letter has been sent out to statutory consultees. The Council would also like to gather the views of others with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Events&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/topics\/events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Dunbar-Proposed-TRO","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2013\/02\/Dunbar-Proposed-TRO.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2013\/02\/Dunbar-Proposed-TRO.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2013\/02\/Dunbar-Proposed-TRO.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":295,"url":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/shopping-list\/","url_meta":{"origin":605,"position":4},"title":"A Political Shopping List","author":"templar","date":"April 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In the weeks ahead you may be wondering what to ask local politicians. \u00a0Here's some things that you could ask about, in no particular order:- Will you support the retention and improvements to residents parking at the Abbeylands end Dunbar High Street? What will you do to secure the Abbey\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/topics\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":990,"url":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/petition\/","url_meta":{"origin":605,"position":5},"title":"RESIDENTIAL PARKING FOR ABBEYLANDS: KEEP THE CUL DE SAC QUIET &#038; SAFE","author":"Barodunum","date":"August 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Petition to formalise residential parking and establish an attractive street scheme in the Abbeylands cul de sac. \u00a0Say no to a public parking lot. We've moved the petition to Change.org. If you only signed a paper version, it won't harm if you sign online again. 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