Plans for new Weston Lane zebra crossing near school scrapped

Plans to install a zebra crossing near King Edward’s pre-prep site in Weston Lane in Bath have been scrapped.

Because the nursery and pre-prep school are now due to relocate to the KES campus at North Road, the need for a crossing will be “significantly” reduced, says a short report on Bath & North East Somerset Council’s website.

Instead, the £50,000 put aside in the Local Active Travel Safety Programme for the crossing will be reallocated to fund the proposed zebra crossing in Odd Down.

The crossing on Bloomfield Road near the junction with Somerdale Avenue will improve an existing walking route used to school and complement the proposed School Street at St Philips’s Primary School.

The decision has been taken by the council’s director of place management.

KES is selling off the Weston Lane site to facilitate a £3 million investment in new facilities at North Road.

The council is currently considering a planning application to convert the Weston site into a private home. The main school building is Grade II listed and dates from the 19th century.

It was a house until 1950, when it was converted to a nursing home and then a private boys’ pre-prep school in 1959. The Park School amalgamated with KES in 1999.