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Restricted Access to Milestones Museum
Reported via mobile in the Rights of way category anonymously at 12:01, Tue 5 December 2023
Sent to Hampshire County Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 5284145.
I have previously reported (updates below) the access restrictions, along with Management but nothing has been done. Staff are finding it impossible to get to work on time due to poor road layout causing blocked access to Milestones with restaurants taking priority. If the road was made into one way on the section before the restaurant entrances instead of allowing people to exit left out of the restaurants car park, then the 2 lanes would enable access to pass any queue. Eg., make it a no left turn exit so the right hand lane can be for the restaurants, leaving the left hand lane free for the car parks, exit and Milestones access. Anyone wanting to exit south would just have to exit beside the restaurants & loop back at the Morrisons roundabout, which is only a minimal distance. Anyone entering from the South entrance beside Sky Dive centre, and passing Odeon Cinema or Bingo hall is just ending up in the queue which blocks the north exit. There are car parks opposite the 2 restaurants with cars wanting to access or exit them being blocked by the queues too. Its bad planning... And a total mess. Besides staff being unable to get to work its difficult for visitors and must put people off from visiting the Museum (which also isn't clearly signposted) and be causing loss of trade. UPDATES This is still a problem the land owners BDBC need to fix! Re reported Monday 23 October 202
November:- This still needs a solution December 4th:- This has not had any response and now the festive season is here with the restaurants being exceptionally busy plus Milestones being very busy it is impossible to gain access to the latter. Staff need access to their place of work and visitors must find it frustrating too especially those who are disabled. The owners BDBC passing the buck as to who is responsible doesn't make things easy either, especially when updates like this are not even viewed by them! Just another issue being ignored by Basingstoke Council!
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