PLANS for traffic-calming measures in Up Hatherley have been scrapped following a lukewarm response from the community.

PLANS for traffic-calming measures in Up Hatherley have been scrapped following a lukewarm response from the community.

Proposals were outlined last November to install chicanes and speed bumps in and around the Asda supermarket to stop residential streets becoming rat runs.

But following a survey undertaken by Gloucestershire County Council, they have been thrown out. Fifteen hundred questionnaires were distributed to residents earlier this year to gauge the interest levels in the proposed ideas to try and slow cars down.

The authority received 470 responses, but the number of people for and against traffic-calming measures was roughly the same.

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Gloucestershire County Council highways manager Chris Riley said: "We will continue to listen to people but, because this area doesn't have a significant accident record, it wouldn't be correct for us to proceed with a scheme without the majority of the community supporting it."

He said the authority and the parish council will continue to monitor the situation.

Mr Riley said they had established a need for some pedestrian improvements along Hatherley Lane such as footway widening and resurfacing which they will do.

Meanwhile, councillors are still calling for traffic-calming measures on the same road.

Councillor Roger Whyborn (Up Hatherley, LD) said: "Some of the residents' lives in Hatherley Lane are a complete misery because of traffic all day and night.

"The immediate future is that the residents there are not happy and the council's officers have offered to meet them but that isn't really good enough. We will be pressing to get some sort kind of traffic calming in Hatherley Lane."

Councillor Andrew McKinlay shares the same opinion.

He said: "I am concerned about Hatherley Lane where there is a substantial body of support for some traffic-calming measures."

The money to pay for the measures was provided by Asda as part of the agreement to allow the supermarket to move into the area.

Mr Whyborn added: "The money that has come from Asda is still on the table and I don't want it frittered away on some Mickey Mouse schemes.

"I want it spent in Hatherley and I want it spent on what residents want."