After months of consultation with officers from the District and County Councils, the new signage for the carparks has been agreed and will be in place in time for the Southwell Festival in June.

The new signs are clear and send those visitors who do not know the town in a definite loop to find alternative car parks if the first one they try is full. a map showing the locations of the new signs can be viewed in the Town Council offices in the Courthouse.

The car park in Memorial drive will shortly be marked out to give 40 car park spaces. This will be signed as a long stay car park.

Following the decriminalising of parking, the police will no longer be the enforcement agency. District Councils will take this on, but this will not happen until ALL the District Councils can agree on the format. Unfortunately this will not come into effect until March 2008.

Numerous residents are raising concerns about the deterioration of the traffic calming humps along Queen Street and King Street. A bid to repair these will be going in for the 2007/08 budget.

However unless the number of HGV's using the town unneccessarily is reduced the problem will get worse.