Stalbridge Cross should stay where it is, early 1990s?

 

Proponents of moving the cross pointed out that motorists needed protecting against the cross colliding with their vehicles; town residents countered that it provides useful traffic calming, deflecting traffic around it as it enters the A357 High Street. Stalbridge’s ancient market cross did indeed always stay where it was, gaining some serious wooden bollards in the early-mid 1990s. Don’t think this cutting, which I guess is from the Blackmore Vale Magazine, included a date, but I suppose it was a little before those bollards turned up.

Stalbridge Traffic Management Consultation, 2000

By 2000, the new realism was beginning to sink in and the bypasses were on the shelf. Instead, it’s all tinkering with the S106 contributions. This one went ahead, but some of the pavement buildouts were quietly rolled back a few years later, as far as I know without consultation.

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