Flyposting

Flyposting is common throughout the area. The offenders rarely, if ever, remove the posters and they are sometimes fixed to mature trees in a way which could damage the health and life of the tree. Our streets and roads are made unsightly by flyposting.
Action: The Forum would like to see strategically located ‘display bollards’ onto which posters can be pasted.

Rubbish

The area needs trough type litter bins (as in the city centre) able to take pizza boxes - something which the smaller bins can’t do. This is a relatively low cost demand which could be met quickly.
A harder problem to solve is the dumping of contents from student houses every summer. The City Council does provide extra collections in the area during the summer, but more needs to be done to tackle the problem of old furniture and rubbish accumulating in the streets.

Parking

Because of the large number of residents with cars and daytime ‘incomers’, car parking is a real problem.There is a lot of parking on corners and on pavements along many side roads. Parking threatens lives and safety, forcing pedestrians onto the roads and creating access problems for emergency services.
Action: The Forum would like to see a consultation day on parking.

Public Transport

At first glance, public transport provision in the area appears to be good. With the exception of the 13 (Beeston - city centre) and the 49 group (Strelley - City Centre), all local services travel to the city centre via Derby Road and the QMC.
Comment: Local people would like to see more buses using Abbey Bridge and Castle Boulevard. The provision of a railway station at the junction of Derby Road and Faraday Road would also improve public transport.

Street Lighting

Lighting along side roads is poor. Lamp posts are too few and at night the streets are murky, fuelling the belief that they can be dangerous. This perception deters particularly the elderly from going out at night, even though the young are more at risk.
Action: Better street lighting across the area must be a priority.

Traffic Lights

Some of Nottingham’s busiest road junctions are in this area, yet some don’t have traffic lights, whilst others make no allowance for pedestrians. This makes junctions dangerous, particularly for children, the elderly and disabled.
Action: The city council’s Highways Section should report on all main road junctions in the area and talk to future meetings of the Forum and Area 7 Committee.