tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79367181454779028.post1987552045054255515..comments2023-10-18T13:49:04.792+01:00Comments on Virtual Lancaster News Blog: City Cabinet defers decision on Chancery Lane closureAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09111099866285188994noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79367181454779028.post-52178996917657690852013-06-03T13:49:32.564+01:002013-06-03T13:49:32.564+01:00It would be great if more could be done with Chanc...It would be great if more could be done with Chancery Lane, great news that the City's Cabinet has deferred any decision. It's a right mess at the moment, but I'm sure some money could be used from the Square Routes fund to do more to it. Some kind of mural perhaps, working with local artists and others, charting the history of Lancaster, with, say a Roman soldier at the Church Street end, working towards the modern day at the other as you come out onto the revamped 'Square Route' styled Market Square? Just a thought. You could have characters from down the years walking past shops as they were in Chancery Lane or houses in the past?John Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09275476513933849893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79367181454779028.post-27312378433859930482013-06-01T19:26:45.733+01:002013-06-01T19:26:45.733+01:00It was odd, wasn't it, how the access out the ...It was odd, wasn't it, how the access out the back of St Nicholas Arcade was closed off (unless you can find the perfumed trail thru Boots). It felt like the old town was pulling up the drawbridge against the Canal Corridor job. Not really thinking it through tho. <br /><br />There was an idea to close the Vue passage at nights a while ago, but it was scrapped. I can't see this one getting through either. Those ginnels are handy when the weather's bad. Which it mostly is. <br /><br />I think a really sensible change would be to make Russell Street one-way. The little U-shaped backstreet off Common Garden St that runs behind the Brown Cow and the top Wetherspoons. It's so narrow in most parts that cars have to back up if they end up facing each other. Not especially dangerous, just a regular nuisance. As well as being used for shop-loading, it's the disabled and pram entrance to the Wetherspoons dining room so there's a bit of dropping-off there and some fragile foot-traffic. It should be one-way, in at the east entry and out at the west. It wouldn't make any problems at all and it would solve a few. A no-entry sign and a one-way signs would do it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79367181454779028.post-4792510573237083462013-06-01T17:26:04.243+01:002013-06-01T17:26:04.243+01:00Check the Lancaster City Council web site for plan...Check the Lancaster City Council web site for planning matters, or at this stage, email Cabinet members direct - all the email addresses for local councillors feature on the City Council web site. Writing them physical letters is always a good idea, too.The Editorhttp://www.virtual-lancaster.netnoreply@blogger.com