I have just heard the six extra parking bays planned for Friars Road in Weston, which I arranged to be funded from the Highway Locality Budget, are scheduled to be built in the first week of January.

The bays, outside numbers 35 to 41, should reduce the congestion caused by parked cars at the end of the road. The existing parking bays outside numbers 1 to 16 and numbers 54 to 68 will have white lines painted to encourage people to park in a way which maximises the number of cars that can be fitted in.