Intersurgical’s premises on the Pitronnerie Road industrial estate. The company’s MD is worried that children will be walking through this site on a busy working day.
SENDING children through an industrial area unsupervised could be dangerous, according to Intersurgical managing director Mark Levrier.
The firm is based on the Pitronnerie Road estate at the St Peter Port end of the suggested walking and cycling route to the new schools at Les Nicolles. Mr Levrier had major concerns about children moving through the busy area to access the green lane to the Island Bowl, the first part of the route. There are no footpaths and forklifts regularly operate.
‘They are moving the danger from the public road to the private road. It is totally private here, so it isn’t policed. On a Saturday afternoon [when the route was tested] it’s fine, but not when it’s busy. It hasn’t been thought through. It may well be safer, but I have concerns.’
Pat Wisher of Living Streets said the group had met Mr Levrier on Saturday. ‘Living Streets is grateful to Mark Levrier for drawing its attention to the possible safety issues which students might face when they walk or cycle through the industrial estate to access the track to the Bowl. Certainly we do not want to put students in danger and we hope that we can work with the estate owners to find solutions to all their concerns.
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Totally agree with Intersurgical’s comments. This is a very busy and dangerous estate in the daytime, there are no proper road markings, especially stop lines, so people automatically assume they have right of way. There are also no speed limits as it is a private estate, so many people drive far too fast in the estate. there are many HGV’s coming in and out of the estate all day long and it can be very congested first thing in the morning. I would be very concerned about children’s safety.
surely this should have been thought about BEFORE building the school.
Prevention is better then cure as they say