Work is taking place to improve safety at a junction in Cheadle, Staffordshire. From today (Monday 17 November), Staffordshire County Council’s highways crews will begin turning the Draycott Cross Road junction into a ‘stop’ junction and carry out other additional road repairs.
The work will include installing new ‘stop’ signs at the Brookhouse Road and Draycott Cross Road junction, putting up advance warning signs to alert drivers to the junction ahead and replacing ‘give way’ markings with ‘stop’ markings.
Crews will also repair potholes, clear drains, and carry out maintenance to footpaths and kerbs at the same time to prevent the need for further closures.
These safety improvements – costing around £25,000 – will be carried out under temporary traffic lights andare expected to take one week to complete.
As a separate phase of work planned for next year, the county council is also looking into reducing the speed limit to 30mph on both Brookhouse Road and Draycott Cross Road and extend the existing 30mph limit on the A521 Delphouse Road further west. On all three roads, the council hopes to add 40mph buffer zones between 30mph areas and national speed limit sections to help improve safety.
Any changes to speed limits will require a Traffic Regulation Order (TRO), which involves a formal consultation process before any decision can be made.
These works aim to make the junction safer and give reassurance to the local community.
Patrick Allen, Staffordshire County Council’s Cabinet Support Member for Highways North, said:
“We’ve listened to residents who have told us that safety at the Draycott Cross Road junction needs to improve. Over the past few months, we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to identify both short-term and long-term measures to make the junction safer, and I’m pleased to see some of this work starting next week.
“But we’re not stopping there. We’re also looking at reducing speed limits and adding buffer zones to make the area even safer. This process involves a public consultation so we can get a traffic regulation order, which will take some months, but we’ll share updates as soon as we can. In the meantime, we’re getting on with the safety improvements we can deliver now.”
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