NEW plans could be developed to help ease parking congestion around primary schools in an attempt to minimise the impact of increasing numbers.
The aim would be to reduce the frustrations of parents struggling to drop off children safely and also residents who see their streets regularly congested during term time.
Barnsley Council has announced it is putting an extra £720,000 into St John the Baptist Junior and Infant School in Penistone to allow the infant site to expand in a move which will see three so-called 'bulge' classes for children of the same age, with money also going to other schools in the area to help cope with changes to the population.
Coun Dave Griffin is calling for new measures to control the potential impact of having more 'school run' traffic.
** The full story appears in the Barnsley Chronicle, dated July 10. **
