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Van parked Headley Road - Marian (4th Oct 2021 - 12:40:30) The grey van which is permanently parked on Headley Road - towards but not as far as the Village Hall - is causing real traffic aggravation causing traffic to back up along the road. At peak times this van - which never seems to move - is causing real delays. Could the owner not move this to a parking space presuming the owner lives where the van is parked.

Re: Van parked Headley Road - Confused (4th Oct 2021 - 16:41:05) If the van has tax and insurance and not parked in a prohibited area then they have the right to park there. Headley road traffic needs to be slowed down it’s like a race track. If you lived in a city you would be stop start all day long.It’s time we had some ring roads around our square then we could have very severe calming local traffic only the same as in the old Midhurst road by the fire station that would put a stop to all the through traffic going to Haslemere Midhurst ect no need to come through liphook they should go via Hindhead.

Re: Van parked Headley Road - James (4th Oct 2021 - 17:26:43) And where would you put these ring roads Confused?

Re: Van parked Headley Road - Paul Robinson (4th Oct 2021 - 19:32:49) If 'Confused' seems to be suggesting that abandoned vehicles, taxed, and or, insured (and, who is to know nowadays), are an effective method of traffic control, then perhaps we can look forward to him sellotaping or supergluing himself to one of the three roundabouts in the centre of the village, in a sort of 'Insulate Liphook' protest. We do not have a by-pass, or a ring road and are unlikely to get one so, our roads to and through the village are our only means of getting in and out of Liphook. Think on. Paul Robinson

Re: Van parked Headley Road - Dave (4th Oct 2021 - 20:20:47) Maybe you should re read Confused' s comments again 'If the van has tax and insurance and not parked in a prohibited area then they have the right to park there' End of !!! Where does this mention that's its abandoned. A quick reg check on DVLA will give you the info. 'We dont have a by pass'!!! what is that dual carriageway then?

Re: Van parked Headley Road - Richard (4th Oct 2021 - 20:34:08) Pretty sure Liphook has a bypass...it is called the A3!

Re: Van parked Headley Road - rolli (5th Oct 2021 - 09:11:39) Seems to be more traffic coming through the Village and Square now than there ever was when to A3 run through!! (just kidding, but it does feel like it sometimes)

Re: Van parked Headley Road - Penny Williamson (5th Oct 2021 - 10:05:51) Dave, I am not sure to whom your statement “Maybe you should re read Confused' s comments again” is directed. If it was Paul Robinson then he was just making the point that Confused seemed to be suggesting that the van/vehicles parked, whether they be abandoned/taxed/insured on Headley Road could be a way to slow down traffic. I don’t therefore understand your statement taken from Confused’s post ie “If the van has tax and insurance and not parked in a prohibited area then they have the right to park there. End of !!!” Paul Robinson was not disputing that.

Re: Van parked Headley Road - D (5th Oct 2021 - 13:30:13) I'm sorry people disapprove of someone legally parking his vehicle outside his own home.

Re: Van parked Headley Road - M (5th Oct 2021 - 17:23:38) I think the original OP is one of those people who believe no one else is allowed to use a road that she is on. If you really want to do something about the parked vehicle holding you up for 2 minutes then take it's registration number and check the DVLA site to find out if it is taxed and MOT'd. You can also check the motor insurance site to see if it is insured (just Google them). If it is taxed, MOT'd and insured then I'm afraid you'll just have to put up with it, suggest you leave 5 minutes earlier. If it isn't taxed, MOT'd or insured then report it to the relevant authorities (again Google it to find out who). Good luck but like "confused" says I think a bit of "traffic calming" isn't a bad idea and a parked vehicle certainly slows everyone down.

Re: Van parked Headley Road - Local Resident (6th Oct 2021 - 17:36:36) I live on the Headley Road - the person who owns that van needs to be given some sort of community service medal. As it significantly reduces the speed of traffic on the road. I would say one in ten drivers exit the roundabout, gets to the Social Club and thinks 'I'm Lewis Hamilton' and puts their foot flat down. As for the traffic coming the other way - it generally just needs to go slower. There is no formal crossing in this part of the road, there are schools everywhere, dogs, pedestrians etc. And as the highway authority are clearly incapable of doing anything about this - traffic calming, crossings etc - it is all down to the van. :)

Re: Van parked Headley Road - D (6th Oct 2021 - 18:38:50) Certainly cheaper than these humps and pinch points. Those black cobble type paving blocks in the square were a good traffic calming scheme, you had to go slow over the potholes everywhere. Does anyone know why they were taken up or what happened to them? "Appalling waste of taxpayers' money" comes to mind.

Re: Van parked Headley Road - Rob (7th Oct 2021 - 08:03:07) I agree the waiting in Headley Rd is awful, it's not just 1 van though, it's several parked cars always there. Never ending traffic it's awful

Re: Van parked Headley Road - AF (7th Oct 2021 - 14:14:54) We do need a ring road system round the village and have parts of a ring road in place. You need to connect all the roads leading to the square, we already have London Road, Headley Road and Longmoor Road connected by Tower Road, and Lowsley estate road respectively. You have Portsmouth Road and Midhurst Road connected by Station Road. So all you need is a road from Haslemere Road to London Road, I would suggest running that past the Library to the small carpark, it would have the advantage for some of getting rid of the decrepit skate park. Lastly a longer road from Portsmouth road to Longmoor Road, bit more difficult but could start before the links Pub along past bohunt manor and take some Bohunt school fields and come out just after the school. This would help relieve the pressure of all traffic having to go through the square.

Re: Van parked Headley Road - Penny Williamson (7th Oct 2021 - 14:28:00) Local Resident I don't know on what part of Headley Road you live, but if I was a resident near the centre of Liphook on that road I would not like cars in a traffic jam pumping out fumes outside my house because this is what is happening particularly in peak times. I agree that some people do drive too fast but this is going to the other end of the extreme not just slowing traffic down traffic but creating traffic jams. In addition people become frustrated and try to accelerate past the parked vehicles so I am sure there will be a collision one day. The same thing happens on the Portsmouth Road.

Re: Van parked Headley Road - Confused (7th Oct 2021 - 15:38:45) Well it seems we are back to the old chestnut more and more traffic through our square. What can be done about it. The pollution in the square and for that matter all our roads is way above the limit. You only have to sit in the square on a Saturday or Sunday and see none stop nose to tail traffic. Some years ago HCC Highways did several surveys and came up with 5 suggestions of relief roads. These were presented at the planning meeting for lowsley park. Hopping that EHDC would make the developers put the road in there plans from Headley road to Longmoor road option 4 which would have made sense and would have made an enormous difference to the traffic coming in on the Headley road. But EHDC failed to do that instead gave permission for all the houses with no benefits for liphook a shocking error. This is what is going on all the time development with no infrastructure. Tower road the Avenue are just not big enough and anyway tower road has a 7 ton limit the Avenue has two schools on it. If we don’t plan for the future all the roads leading into the square will be at a standstill in 10 years time.

Re: Van parked Headley Road - Local Resident (8th Oct 2021 - 17:43:08) For me, the most important thing is that vehicles slow down on that road. And that van does physically slow them down - going both ways. I agree there is sometimes some dicy overtaking in the area of the van, but I can't see how it increases emissions by slowing vehicles down. But for sure - the whole situation with regard to traffic passing through the village is a grade one shambles. But the only way to fix it is for the Highways authority to step up, and we all know that is not going to happen. Particularly now, when all councils are desperately short of cash.

Re: Van parked Headley Road - D (9th Oct 2021 - 00:17:45) What other town is there where you can stand in its' square and from that point travel to six different points of the compass. We should celebrate this, not destroy it as has been the case with much of Liphook only to be relegated to some picture in the Heritage Centre. This is as unique as the yellow brick road. The traffic disappears in school holidays so the cause would appear to be school traffic.

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