Chapel Brow ideas wanted

[Martin]

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Street ideas wanted
NEXT time you wander down Leyland's Chapel Brow dream up some ideas on how the street should look.

That is the task South Ribble council chiefs have set residents as part of radical plans to change the face of the busy town centre area.

Under proposed major changes Chapel Brow could be made one-way with street parking for all and off-street parking for nearby residents and disabled. The plans would also mean a lot of improvements to the way the street actually looks and this is where the council want people to get involved.

Council bosses aim to install street furniture like guard rails, seating, bollards and waste bins but require people to have their say on what they actually want, whether "olde worlde" or ultra modern. As an area of mixed use, being commercial by day and party-like by night with numerous eateries, council chiefs aim is to provide the right street furniture to meet everyone's needs.

To put your view across pop along to an exhibition on Tuesday, September 2, at in the Lancashire FA headquarters, Thurston Road, from noon-5.45pm, prior to the Leyland East area committee meeting at 6pm.

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http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/lancashire/leyland/news/LEYNEWS0.html

Now here's a challenge for our local members. What would you like to see done to Chapel Brow? One way, pedestrianised, double yellow lines?

[Martin]

I'd like to see double yellow lines put on the stretch of road by the cash machine running down to the roundabout. I've lost count of the number of times that I have driven down Chapel Brow and had to brake as I got round the bend by the TSB because of lazy people getting money out of the machines.

[Alan Marsden]

From what I remember of Chapel Brow , there's not one building that has any class and they are all very old too, perhaps the best thing would be to flatten the lot and build something new, something with a few trees around it,quality buildings, not tacky!
However, Iv'e noted many times that one of the fields in which Britain excells, is the retention of old buildings, and I'm not talking about beautiful classical examples which of course should be maintained, but general run of the mill non entity buildings ( like Chapel Brow ), in many instances there must be far more spent on refurbishing them than building new!
Good for the scaffolding industry though !

[anacortesdamp]

Since the "new" road from the "Gasworks" roundabout to Golden Hill takes most of the traffic, why not make Chapel Brow a pedestrian-only street? There's lots of potential for a really pleasant, walkable shopping district.


Frank Damp

[noel]

The wholeChapel Brow area and the shops between the Queens Hotel and the traffic lights are a mess. I agree Chapel Brow should be pedestrianised but something needs to be done about the state of the buildings as well. The houses that were knocked down opposite Chorley Building society have been replaced by a very blank looking small warehouse with the personality of Hilda Baker's Cynthia . Whatever's done to these shops for heaven's sake learn from that experience!!

[Martin]

Pedestrianisation is a great idea. What is now the road could be developed by installing benches and maybe a few trees... As for the new warehouse belonging to Berrys. I commented on my last visit to Leyland that it was an odd thing to have a bland brick walled building facing the main road through Leyland.