CONTROVERSIAL plans for four homes in Tarraby will finally be given a verdict by the city council’s planning panel and despite concerns around traffic safety, officers are confident the proposal can be approved.

Carlisle City Council’s planning panel is set to meet at the Civic Centre on Friday June 24.

And councillors will be asked to give a verdict on the proposal to build four homes on land adjacent to Meadow Cottage in Tarraby.

Plans were deferred at the April meeting as councillors were concerned about the validity of road traffic data included in the application.

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The latest report set to be discussed on Friday reveals that a new Automatic Traffic Count survey has been carried out.

The case officer report reads: “The ATC data was cross referenced with the available video data and this uncovered a minor anomaly whereby each time two bicycles went past (trailing one another in close proximity), the machine thought that it was a four-axle vehicle.

The highways authority was consulted on the new ATC and asked for bicycles to be removed so that the data would not be distorted.

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However, concerns remain for a resident and Stanwix Rural Parish Council.

The parish council said: “The lack of street lighting indicates that the U1170 Tarraby Lane is unrestricted and has a speed limit of 60mph.

“The Automatic Traffic Counter was positioned to record only those vehicles passing beyond the ATC. Only 4 dwellings lie beyond this point so the total traffic volume of Tarraby Lane is not recorded.

“This provides an incomplete and, therefore, misleading dataset as the hamlet contains a further 24 dwellings which also rely on access to Tarraby Lane and which are visited by a variety of vehicle types

Cumbria County Council as highways authority said: “The statement in the survey that it is a 30mph road is incorrect - however, the survey was done to ascertain the 85th percentile speeds of vehicles close to the proposed access. It was not a survey conducted to consider the capacity of the lane. The statement on the current limit, therefore, is immaterial and the location of it was acceptable.”

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