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Passfield 'overgrowth'? - Sue W (6th Jun 2008 - 09:51:26) There seems to be a total lack of verge management here. Having travelled through Passfield yesterday, the vision from Hollywater junction is greatly impaired due to the growth of weeds obstructing vision. The Bus Stop is half submerged by them and must make it unsafe for pedestrians and drivers to see, when crossing the road. Who is responsible for this? I did notice that the Conford turning has been cut - but I suspect a resident did it!

Re: Passfield 'overgrowth'? - Chris (6th Jun 2008 - 11:12:26) EHDC.

Re: Passfield 'overgrowth'? - nikki (6th Jun 2008 - 12:36:58) Its Hampshire County, not ehdc. verge-cutting-details And Lynchborough Road is also affected, so we have to now 2 unsafe turnings to negotiate due to overgrown verges.

Re: Passfield 'overgrowth'? - Dawn Hoskins (7th Jun 2008 - 21:08:44) Yes, probably the two most dangerous junctions - turning right out of Lynchborough Road onto Hollywater Road - turning right from Hollywater road onto B3004 Visibility is already poor to none at the best of times – especially when pulling out onto Hollywater due to the bend in the road and the crazy speed limit (60 mph despite busy residential junction and entrance gate into NT common). Today, the front of my vehicle was in the middle of the road before I could see if it was clear from my left -- an already dangerous situation has been made much worse by the lack of cutting. It is an accident waiting to happen (well I should re-phrase that – the deaths of people have already happened – it is the response by the council that hasn’t!). When will they make these roads safe I wonder. . . .

Re: Passfield 'overgrowth'? - Sue w (8th Jun 2008 - 18:53:37) Sorry Dawn, I think there is a much more dangerous junction along that road than Lynchborough road. The junction from Forest Road (near Richard Eade), to the Liphook Road, which turns into the Hollywater Road at the Royal Oak, has cars exceeding the 30mph, there is NO time scale to act when cars are comming over the brow of the hill!! IMO

Re: Passfield 'overgrowth'? - Dawn Hoskins (8th Jun 2008 - 20:36:35) Yes, I had forgotten that one. I agree. Trying to look right when you are exiting Forest Road is impossible because the corner house has a big hedge. You have to be in the middle of the road to see - and what makes it more dangerous is that there is often cars behind you so you can't quickly reverse back if you suddenly find there is a car comming after all. I always find that stretch (from the mini roundabout towards the Forest Road junction) really annoying as the houses all seem to have enormous driveways but they park their cars in the road and obsruct the traffic....maybe it is a ploy to slow cars down like in Grayshott?

Re: Passfield 'overgrowth'? - nikki (10th Jun 2008 - 14:07:37) The difference between the lynchborough road junction and the whitehill junction is that on our stretch of the road it is a national speed limit, whereas the 1 in whitehill is 30mph

Re: Passfield 'overgrowth'? - Steve Read (10th Jun 2008 - 20:16:26) Interestingly enough my next door neighbour popped into the PC office yesterday to offer his services complete with strimmer to remove the offending vegetation around this junction. This offer was met with the usual jobsworth informing him that we have contractors to do this sort of thing at six weekly intervals. My neighbour undetered still offered to go and cut back not in 6 weeks but now. The threat of possible prosecution was then mentioned upon which he decided to leave well alone. Only in Liphook!

Re: Passfield 'overgrowth'? - Sue (11th Jun 2008 - 08:39:54) Steve Nothing surprises me there!! Do they not realise how fast growing weeds are, especially after heavy rain as we had. Perhaps they should adjust this policy to every 3 weeks. IMO the neighbour should just have done his good deed and bypassed the red tape. Next they will enforce a schedule for using the toilet (at the PC Office) -no more than 3 flushings a day - for conservation purposes of course!! If it needs to be done - DO IT.

Re: Passfield 'overgrowth'? - Mani Rai (11th Jun 2008 - 09:02:14) We all seem to be in agreement that the uncontrolled growth of the vegetation around the junctions are a driving hazard AND that it is Hants County Council's (HCC) responsibility to sort it out. The question is who is going to bring it to the attention of the person responsible at HCC?

Re: Passfield 'overgrowth'? - Dawn Hoskins (11th Jun 2008 - 09:57:20) My thanks to the kind ‘anonymous’ person who has strimmed the grass - enabling dog walkers to cross the road into the common, and also some of the verge to the main junction. I wonder if we will start a trend of masked ‘Zorro’ like strimmers conducting dawn raid exercises on errant verges…..I hope so Has the regular strimmer of Conford ever been prosecuted I wonder?

Re: Passfield 'overgrowth'? - Sue (11th Jun 2008 - 19:32:15) Dawn Perhaps the man may not be that mysterious? Passing through at mid-day, I noticed a council van (Highways), parked down the Bramshott road, (at the bend). There was at least 2 men, one had a very long strimmer in his hand.......

Re: Passfield 'overgrowth'? - Sue (12th Jun 2008 - 19:42:21) Well what an achievement!! Passfield has had a makeover - but so have other road sides too. Even the hedge at the Forest Road/Liphook road junction has been cut back. Congratulations to who ever was responsible.

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