As the end of the school day arrives for one primary in Oldham, cars are already queueing nose to tail on the road outside. “It’s horrendous,” one resident says.
This is Holly Grove in Chadderton North, where Active Neighbourhood plans aimed at cutting traffic and rat-running were scrapped by the council after an outcry.
Leaders had proposed installing planters and bollards, as well as new bus gates to restrict vehicles which they said were using streets like Holly Grove as a cut-through.
