Residents living at a retired people’s complex in Laisterdyke are celebrating after a U-turn on bollards near their home.

The bollards were installed at the entrance to a lane between St Mary’s Road and Parsonage Road after a plea from a neighbour who said the vibration from passing vehicles was damaging the gable wall.

But residents of St Mary’s Fold, off Sticker Lane, feared losing their mobile library service because the bollards, along with parked cars, meant larger vehicles could not always get through.

They took their petition to Bradford North Area Committee, which has now decided the bollards will be removed. Committee chairman Councillor David Ward (Lib Dem), said: “The case was well made by local residents.

“The Council had not consulted with residents and had not followed the correct procedure to close the road. Residents can now continue to use the services of the library bus and will no longer be in danger from vehicles who could not get through using the car park at the St Mary’s Fold sheltered housing complex as a turning area.

“The Council must do much more to consult with local residents. This is clearly a road with long-established rights of way as part of the highway network. Those sort of rights cannot just be ignored. Neither can the rights of people living in a shelter housing complex to live in quiet enjoyment of their homes.”

The bollards had been installed in the same position previously but removed more than 30 years ago.

Nearby resident Sarah McCarten said the street was often used as a cut-through from Parsonage Road to Sticker Lane but that this had stopped with the reintroduction of bollards.

“There are no cars screeching around the corner at all times of the day and night,” she said.

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