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Am I alone in thinking.... - Livid of Liphook (2nd Mar 2010 - 12:22:23) that the new traffic calming in London Road - outside Radford - is a complete waste of time and money and that the associated pavement widening is rather absurd in a place where hardly anyone ever walks?!!! Who on earth is/are the nincompoop(s) responsible? With the general state of road surfaces in and around Liphook being worse than anything found in the 3rd world, is this yet again a distinct case of wrong priorities. (Polite way of saying another cock-up). Given the comments on this site about our wonderful Parish Council (and therefore, the assumed general feelings of your average Liphookian about the same), perhaps the candidates should be assessed on their ability to, quite literally, fill in a few holes rather than dig them?.........

Re: Am I alone in thinking.... - Editor (2nd Mar 2010 - 13:28:33) Hi Livid I have a feeling that this was actually completed and paid for by the Bramshott Place Village development and is intended to be a cycle path rather than a wider pavement. But I stand to be corrected. Alan

Re: Am I alone in thinking.... - Karen F (2nd Mar 2010 - 14:46:27) Is that the same Bramshott Place lot that came to me full guns blazing about sponsoring the carnival then realised they wouldn't perhaps get as much coverage as they hoped but then some months later it dawned on them that their showhouse opening happened on the same day as Carnival so lo and behold wanted to be a sponsor again!!!????? Do agree, state of the potholes seems to be getting really bad! The Avenue and Avenue Close have larger ones growing daily...

Re: Am I alone in thinking.... - barbara (3rd Mar 2010 - 12:03:45) I agree with livid of liphook but would the editor please print names? We could get back to anyone posting under a different name to to smear other people. Yes it is for Bramshott Place, it was part of the requirement /planning conditions all big developments now have to show a commitment to cut down on the carbon footprint they may be creating, so cycle routes into liphook were decided upon. It was also their commitment to lay on a private taxi service for residents but I think that one has bitten the dust! They made a large developers contribution also toward the cost of building social housing in East Hampshire but not on this same site. .

Re: Am I alone in thinking.... - liz (3rd Mar 2010 - 15:20:53) I tend to agree with 'livid' that the traffic calming is unnecessary at that point but if a cycle path is being provided that is good news for a change. However I'm a bit worried about the number and size of the streetlights. We have Bramshott Place lit up like Las Vegas, the huge lamps and 'artificial daylight' at Liphook Station, the proposed Bohunt development and roundabout which will floodlight that end of Liphook, the proposed Industrial Estate at Woolmer Farm in Bramshott, the Silent Garden development (local views ignored) and many other proposed housing developments. The character of Liphook looks likely to change rapidly again as it did with the Sainsbury's development. We need change but surely not at the expense of distroying ths character of the environment we live in. - --- Liphook in Bloom will soon be able to compete in the 'City' section!

Re: Work in the London Road.. - jessica (13th Mar 2010 - 11:58:55) Anyone who can afford an exclusive home and pay £8000 in ground rent a year must have a wide pavement to have access to the village by bicycle!!! It would be nice to think that this measure to slow the traffic down is going to work but they can think again. There is still enough room for 2 cars to pass even with the road narrowing.It takes me sometimes as long as 7-8 minutes to cross the road with my children to go to Radford Park as there is one continuous flow of traffic doing between 40 and 50mph straight off the A3. I think a speed camera would have been more effective. As for the new lighting I feel it is much better as the white light doesn't seem as bright as the orange ones and my son can actually sleep at night as their isn't a continuous orange glow all night.

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