This summer the people of Arundel will be given their first opportunity in 30 years to give their views on options for a new A27 bypass which could change the Sussex countryside forever.
A23 at Night
© Helen Haden
The CPRE has just published new research which identifies that new road schemes generally produce much less in the way of economic benefits and congestion relief than predicted and have a more damaging impact on the environment and landscape.
CPRE Sussex submitted a representation to the Chichester Bypass Improvements consultation, 2016 on 21 September. The full text is below.
Arundel Bypass Option A
CPRE Sussex and the South Downs Society have written a joint letter to the new Secretary of State for Transport to highlight our support for what is locally know as the 'purple route' in relation to the current options identification for improvements to the A27 at Arundel, which will go out for consultation in spring 2017.
Download SCATE's latest release on the A27 Arundel bypass plans.
Highways England are ‘identifying options’ for a new Arundel Bypass, aiming to choose them by November 2016, for public consultation in spring 2017. One option cuts through Binsted village, and through the fields where the Strawberry Fair is held.
Access to the beautiful Combe Valley has now been opened - with a massive scar! How long will it take to heal? Ten years? Even longer. You could also call it a rape as well. Whips cowering in plastic sleeves will produce no effective landscaping impact for at least ten years - they were planted AFTER the road was built, and not before, as we had urged , once the go ahead to build was given. And who can tell when the biodiversity they destroyed during the construction will return? It will have also to contend with the pollution the road engenders.
Could this devastation in the name of roads be a template for other proposals along the South Coast A 27 corridor?
Gabriel Carlyle in Hollington Valley © Coombe Haven Defenders
24 March 2016
We have received this appeal for legal funding from Coombe Haven Defenders and the South Coast Alliance for Transport and the Environment, (SCATE). Please share it with anyone who may be interested.
