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The A65 Working Group

A Working Group was formed on the 13th January 2005, to lobby the current authority responsible for the upkeep of the A65 Trunk Road.

Members of the Working Group are:

In addition Steven Loughlin is to help with any practical matters.

The minutes of the Working Group will be posted in the LoPRA Members Area.

The aims and objectives of the Working Group are:

• To identify and to lobby the current authority responsible for the upkeep of the A65 Trunk Road (and when de-trunked). 
   

• To get urgent repairs done to the road surface throughout Long Preston, in particular on Kayley Hill where the road is subsiding, and to have the grates and kerbs through the village repaired, especially at the junctions of Station Road and Hartley Green. 
   

• To achieve long term repairs and resurfacing with “quiet tarmac” to reduce traffic noise throughout the length of the village.
   

•  To implement practical methods of reducing traffic noise and vibrations from passing HGV’s to adjoining houses along the A65.

The group is to meet every three months and submit regular progress reports to the LopRA Committee.

As a result of this first meeting, a letter was sent to Peter Holsworth of the Highways Agency, expressing our concern about the various problems, the repeated floods in our area and the deteriorating condition of the A65.  We also enquired as to what steps were being taken to remedy these problems.

The above concerns were again expressed at a meeting on January 28^th with David Curry MP.  He has taken up the issues raised about the A65 with Mr Mike Moore, the Director of Environmental Services at N.Y.C.C.  who are submitting a programme of highway construction and maintenance to the Government for the next five years.  Mr Curry has written to say that he will be in touch as soon as he has a reply from Mr Moore.