THE ISSUES

• Very Busy Main Road
• Speeding Traffic
• Poor Evening Bus Service
• Narrow Kerbs or No Pavements in places
• Poor Visibility at Junctions
• Fast Traffic passing School Gates

The Problem

The village is situated on a very busy part of the A390. Both the villages either side of Grampound have been bypassed, creating a fast moving stream of traffic. This traffic has to slow down suddenly to pass through the bottleneck created by Fore Street in Grampound. A bypass plan has been drawn up, but it is a long-term and high cost option. The village needs slower and ideally less traffic now to protect both its inhabitants and the large number of listed buildings that line the main street from fumes and vibration. One building already has collapsed, possibly as a result of heavy traffic, and nationally, childhood asthma is increasing as a result of poor air quality.

We want our children to be safe and healthy in Grampound.

The existing traffic calming schemes have had mixed success. The pedestrian refuges work well, and the speed check light is effective at slowing traffic at the top end of Fore Street . However, traffic tends to speed up again once past the pub, so many cars passing the school are exceeding the speed limit by as much as 30mph. Some of the pavement alterations have made them dangerous for the elderly and parents with prams, and the off-road parking bays have streamlined the main carriageway and actually speed up traffic.

Alterations to the exits from Pepo Lane and Creed Lane have created poor visibility for cars trying to come out onto the main carriageway, especially at Creed Lane , where cars must cross both lines of traffic to swing out into the main road.

The bus service through Grampound is adequate during the day, but morning and evening services are poor. The village is particularly poorly served at night . Villagers who would like to go out to the theatre or nightclubs in Truro or Newquay are unable to get home by public transport after 11pm , and taxi services are expensive.

A number of villagers do not have access to a car, particularly the elderly, and shopping using public transport is difficult and tiring. Many village organisations would benefit from the use of a community minibus, provided sufficient volunteers could be found to take a driving course.