Narrowing Cowpen Road? Conservative chaos embracing commercial destruction.

 

With people beginning to notice surveyors linked to Northumberland single party cabinet, measuring every inch of the County’s busiest highway, questions are beginning to be asked by businesses and road users alike.

With the same cabinet members hiding behind the last Government’s levelling up con destroying trade and the opportunity for commercial growth in Blyth Town Centre they are now making moves to damage trade and life chances for ever more families in Blyth as they have decided to lift the stone from their plans to also kill off commerce on Cowpen Road.

Continuing to shelter behind ‘levelling up’ on Cowpen Road by shrinking its width to allow cyclists enjoy a third share of this very dangerous highway coupled with removing safety islands and right hand turning lanes exposing pedestrians and locals to join the melee. This decision will expose the myriad of school children whose journeys to school include Cowpen Road to dodge juggernauts and flying emergency vehicles while the joint pedestrian and cycle lane sits as empty as the heads who believe this unwanted safety feature will benefit jobs and deliveries across Blyth for most of the day while motor traffic will stand still for many more hours than at present.

A recent full council meeting at County Hall in Morpeth appeared to ditch the development of a Cowpen relief road for another decade, drivers and industry which relies on Cowpen Road will be stifled by the same Conservative anti Blyth campaigners who have pushed a culture centre and destroyed instead of accepting the challenge of improvement its shopping precinct have shown since 2017 that their interest lies in Morpeth and Ponteland and are using Government money to push work and business away from Blyth.

https://www.northumberland.gov.uk/NorthumberlandCountyCouncil/media/Economy-and-Regeneration/Energising%20Blyth/Bebside-to-Town-Centre-Cycle-Corridor.pdf