Please find a link for the Hounster Hill Feasibility Study, which was approved at that the last Parish Council meeting held on 27th September 2022.
The summary of options and recommendations are pages 76 to 83.
Millbrook Parish Council timelne Hounster Hill Feasibility Study
Reporting 15 September 26 - 9 October 26 downloadable PDF
Cornwall Councillor Kate Ewert's September 2026 update
During the Parish Council meeting held on 17th March 2026, the Parish Council approved the resurfacing works quotation from Cormac for Millbrook Village Hall Car Park and Greenland Car Park. Information received from Cormac The car parks will need to be closed to the...
I have read the paper submitted by the residents of West Street on the subject.
It is all very well for the residents of West Street to complain about the situation, but they are often the cause of it by parking, sometimes two vehicles at a time, at the junction with Radford Lane, denying the wider road there as a passing place needed for normal traffic, but especially so when there are large vehicles to be avoided. They block the main road causing major traffic congestion.
Furthermore, the parked vehicles obstruct the entrance to Radford Lane itself, so if a vehicle is coming out of Radford Lane, then a vehicle intending to enter the lane has to wait, again blocking the main road.
It’s not as if the parked vehicles are loading/ unloading as usually they are left unattended for many hours at a time, sometimes even days. The residents treat the junction as if it is their private parking space and seem immune from enforcement of both local parking restrictions and the legal requirement not to park within 10m of a junction.
I understand and sympathise with the difficulties in accessing the properties in West Street, but the occupants should have taken that into account before moving there and probably obtained properties at a considerable discount because of it; they should not solve their own difficulties by obstructing the road for everyone else.
I trust that you will take this information into account before deciding upon a solution.
I don’t know what wig-wag means but the two-way warning light doesn’t work: I have found that when it has indicated a vehicle coming the other way there hasn’t been one and, conversely, when it has indicated no vehicle coming the other way that has indeed been one.
The most important solution is for there to be a weight and width restriction on the B3247 through Millbrook, and for it to be enforced.
I really don’t think the wig wag lighting goes far enough. I can’t see how it will slow traffic sufficiently, and as it stands few drivers appear to obey the 20mph speed limit. This is a major cause of blocked road in the ‘narrows’ and Hounster, as drivers prefer to pile in behind the first to go through rather than waiting to look if there’s already traffic coming through.
I don’t fully understand why traffic lights wouldn’t work, so hopefully you can explain.
One way system might also be preferable, and a ban on larger lorries. I lived in the narrows, where both Dodbrook House and the now Bar Tusker were damaged several times over the 8 yrs I lived there. Once a CCC black pavement post was uprooted by a truck that couldn’t negotiate the turn. So it’s not just volume but the ridiculous size of vehicles coming through that cause queues, and general mayhem. I sincerely hope that the wig wag lighting will be very thoroughly considered, as the cheapest option is not necessarily the right one.