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Victory Close, STOURPORT-ON-SEVERN, DY13 9RN

Discovery Road in this direction is heading for the town centre, passing a Tesco supermarket on its way.

The extension to Discovery Road and the new bridge over the River Stour have now been built. When this photograph was taken at the beginning of July 2012, the road was open to pedestrians but not to road vehicles. The road will give access to the new Tesco supermarket. Although some preparatory work had been done, the actual building of the store had not commenced. Image

Discovery Road connects the residential Power Engine Estate with the town centre, but its main purpose is to provide an alternative access to and from an as yet unbuilt Tesco supermarket and adjoining proposed housing development.

Discovery Road ends at this point. If plans go ahead for the proposed new Tesco store, Discovery Road will be continued over this land to give access to the store, which is planned for land adjacent to Severn Road. The road would need to cross the River Stour, or maybe this would be culverted under it. There is a current legal dispute, but assuming that it is eventually resolved in favour of Tesco, it would still be quite some time before this road could be built. Image; Image The caution notice warns that "deep water present along perimeter of open space". How many young children living round here would fully understand what that phrase means is debatable. Hopefully their parents will fully warn them of the dangers. Image

Behind the safety railing fronting Discovery Road is a short footpath linking it with Santa Maria Way and Nina Close. Image

This short footpath links Santa Maria Way and Nina Close to Discovery Road, which lies immediately on the other side of the safety railing. The road in the distance is Resolution Way. Image

The local firm of Whittle Coach & Bus Ltd was established in 1929. In 2004 it became part of the Hull based EYMS Group, who run East Yorkshire Motor Services and others. As well as running a coach business, Whittle also run some bus services in the Wyre Forest and adjoining areas. Unfortunately they have been running at a loss for some years, not helped perhaps because they ran some services in competition with First and then with Diamond buses. Here Whittles bus no. 169 (reg. W694 EOP) is seen on Route 15 in Discovery Road, on its way to Stourport's town centre. It is on the penultimate day of operation. The bus service is closing and the coaching side has been sold off. Fortunately route 15 and some others are being taken on by other operators. The bus dates from 2000 and is a low floor Dennis Dart SLF with a 29 seat Plaxton Mini Pointer body. It is probably the longest bus which can be used on this route, which is very long and circuitous, and involves reversing the bus in residential streets in at least two places.

After a very heavy snowfall conditions for driving and walking were not good. The road on the left is Discovery Road.

This is where Discovery Road ends, as at January 2010. In the future it may extend further ahead to give road access to the proposed new Tesco store. On the left is Resolution Road, which gives access to a residential housing estate. Image The road was extended in 2012. See:- Image

After a very heavy snowfall it was difficult to distinguish the pavements from the road. Not surprisingly there was very little traffic about. The device on the post on the left is a solar powered speed indicator. Despite this road having a 30 mph speed limit, probably because there are two sharp bends ahead, most motorists completely ignore this. When they do, a screen indicates the speed they are travelling in red. One day there is going to be a nasty accident when someone loses control of their vehicle and ploughs into pedestrians.