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Longmoor Road development plans
- Nick Hancock (15th Jun 2014 - 10:39:01)
We have just received a flyer for a planning exhibition (supposedly in the name of EHDC) regarding proposals for the National Park land adjoining Longmoor Road below Bohunt. The owners are still trying to convince us all that their misconceived plans for a link road between Portsmouth Road and Longmoor Road are the answer to Liphook's traffic problems.
The exhibition is to be on Tuesday 17th June in the Millennium Hall - time not specified. Please come along to make your opposition known!
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Re: Longmoor Road development plans
- Ian (15th Jun 2014 - 18:13:33)
And of course your support
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Re: Longmoor Road development plans
- Colin (16th Jun 2014 - 01:59:37)
I have lived in Liphook most of my life, and I understand people need housing, but we need it on sensible sustainable brownfield sites!. In the last week I have had flyers for Bohunt Manor land development, Longmoor Road development, and the 'Chicken farm' redevelopment. Houses, houses houses. Not only are the Longmoor Road and Bohunt Manor areas of outstanding natural beauty, which belongs to the South Downs National Park, but all the sites will not have sufficient traffic or road infrastructure to support the housing development. Development of the greenfield sites will only increase traffic congestion and road accidents along the Portsmouth Road, which is already an on-going issue due to train station commuters parking stationary vehicles down the road near the proposed Bohunt Manor development site entrance. Congestion along the Portsmouth Road and Longmoor Road, and of key roads into the village square, would increase significantly if the developments went ahead, causing the village to become further heavily congested during peak times. The Midhurst Road, after the Station bridge is a very poorly maintained road, which regularly floods and which is in need of widening or improvement to support the existing traffic!
The developers proposal of a 'relief road' would not work. The traffic on the Portsmouth Road is already horrendous! Especially during school or rush hour traffic times. It is common for traffic to be queuing from the Liphook Square down to the Church Centre entrance on the Portsmouth Road. Allowing this relief road will augment the developers chances of building further housing on the protected greenfield land, and it would help the Bohunt Manor developers to finally get their application approved for housing.
I feel developing such large areas of the South Downs National Park and further developing already traffic congested areas would ruin Liphook further, but also completely defy the purpose of the SDNP land protection scheme.
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Re: Longmoor Road development plans
- Daisy (16th Jun 2014 - 06:47:19)
Well said Colin!
With all the flyers from developers going around there is a danger of the consultation being overrun from people linked to the developers. I hope there will be plenty of people from the parish to set the balance straight.
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