The story so far ...

 I (William, the blogger) took a complaint about rat-running to the Parish Council in 2019. It was then put forward to the Shipley Area Committee but they said:

We placed Leathley Avenue/Leathley Road on the reserve list for the Area Committee programme but unfortunately set against the other district priorities it wasn’t selected this year.

The issue of rat running on Leathley Avenue & Road has been in the Shipley Area Committee (Safer Roads Devolved Budget) for a number of years, and never received funding. There are four pages of requests for funding in the Shipley Area in 2019, but the budget for Shipley Area is too small. Click on some of the links on the right to see how long Leathley Road has been an issue. 

As we know, traffic measures around the Primary School were approved (and a good thing too) but Leathley Avenue & Road was ignored again.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Hodgin contacted the Bradford Traffic Engineer Simon D'Vali. (Another resident did the same, but we don't know who.) A meeting in Sep 2020 eventually led to Simon putting forward a proposal in January 2021:

We are just drafting a scheme at present that we will be sharing with elected members first.  Once I have political approval for the design, I will come back to both of you and other residents.  We can tie this in with the recommended list of schemes for the Area Committee in April.  No guarantees of funding but it’s the first step.  

and in March, Jeremy got this from Cllr Whitely:

I write to let you know that your Councillors attended a meeting this week with Council officers who are supportive of a scheme to reduce people using the Leathley’s as a ‘rat run’. We offered our full support but any scheme will be subject to appropriate consultations. As you live on the road I am sure you will be made to aware of what is proposed in due course.

Regards

Cllr Jackie Whiteley