Construction work for the new Sainsbury’s on Moorland Road has created traffic chaos in the street. At 9:00 on Thursday morning, construction workers vans had completely used up parking on one side of the street and some on the other. When a delivery vehicle for the construction site arrived it blocked the street, causing disruption to shoppers and local residents.

Cllr Will Sandry has tackled the problem by speaking with Sainsbury’s site team and getting their agreement that the vans will not be parked up all day on Moorland Road, but will be put in to adjoining streets. Additionally, Cllr Sandry has alerted the Council’s parking enforcement team and has had assurances that the enforcement team will now monitor the situation.

Will Sandry said,

I recognise that the Sainsbury’s site team have a job to do, but they do not need to park all their vans on Moorland Road for the whole day and block the street. This stops shoppers parking and getting to the other shops on Moorland Road, in a recession that’s something we don’t want to happen to the small businesses there.

Kay Duce from Park Pets on Moorland Road said: ‘As a business that involves a lot of heavy items it is very important that our customers are able to pull in to pick up their shopping, the alternative is that they shop elsewhere.

Kay went on to say,

I’ve been worried about Sainsbury’s moving in and what that might do to my trade; but I wasn’t expecting this before they even opened. We and the other shops and businesses on Moorland Road are definitely open for business as usual.