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New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- M (20th Jun 2020 - 09:35:49)

Below a new planning application to replace the current Liphook Station footbridge with a new bridge and LIFTS!!!!

Great to see and lets hope it actually happens!

planningpublicaccess.easthants.gov.uk/...

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- Trevor Maroney (20th Jun 2020 - 10:29:26)

Brilliant, now all we need is the platform raising for total disabled access to trains.

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- Fred (20th Jun 2020 - 11:23:14)

Great news.

I still don’t know why they don’t go with a longer, gently sloping ramp on each side, surely would be cheaper and no maintenance! Either way great for universal access. Well done.

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- Nicky (20th Jun 2020 - 11:29:03)

M I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news but unless anything has changed during lockdown the lift isn’t coming anytime soon. I spoke to the lovely lady in the ticket office and although planning is there it isn’t going to be installed at this time. In addition the new footbridge will be much further up the platform. When we spoke it was due to be constructed in August before the old footbridge is demolished.
Maybe someone else has had a further update though?

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- M (20th Jun 2020 - 15:24:09)

Hi Nicky,
This is a new planning application only just submitted to EHDC.
The original application was just for a footbridge and no lifts (approved May 2020) so this new application is therefore good news?
Of course we'll have to wait and see but wouldn't imagine Network Rail would bother submitting an application for a footbridge with lifts when they've just had approval for a footbridge without lifts granted.

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- Nicky (20th Jun 2020 - 16:46:33)

M that would be fantastic news! 🎉🎉🤞

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- Yellow Bannanna Adrian (20th Jun 2020 - 19:25:37)

The planning permission is for a bridge with lifts but no lifts will be installed at present but the structure will be built to enable this in the future. Bearing in mind the massive losses the incompetent SWR was running at before COVID there is no chance the lifts being installed.

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- M (21st Jun 2020 - 08:21:12)

I believe you are wrong YBA, the original planning application was for a bridge with no lifts, this application is clearly for a bridge with lifts.

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- M (21st Jun 2020 - 09:55:52)

Also YBA this application has nothing to do with SWR, it's from Network Rail who own and run the Line.

We all know you hate SWR, and possibly with justification...…... as you keep telling us in every post you write!
Lets see what happens and hope, for everyones sake, that the footbridge and lifts are built before the existing footbridge actually falls down.

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- Yellow Bannanna Adrian (21st Jun 2020 - 20:08:13)

M

You may be right about the application coming from Network Rail as they own the line and will have to pay for the bridge. But remember that Network Rail are owned by the Government and receive their money from the franchise holders.
Due to COVID none of the franchise holders are now paying any money and they have all been taken over by the government who are paying the franchise holders a set fee to run a service.
Therefore the bridge will be built with Government money which considering the state the economy is in after the ill thought out lockdown is in short supply so costs will be kept to the minimum. The bridge will be built as the old one is falling down but there will be no lifts.

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- richard (21st Jun 2020 - 20:45:51)

Without wishing to encourage anyone...but when "The Herons" was built 22 years ago, footings were installed for a footbridge between Tesco and the new site. Never delivered, lots of rumours why, but I suspect it really came down to money and it having to be paid for.

I expect the lifts will go the same way, even if there are accessibility requirements

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- Don Jerrard (4th Dec 2020 - 10:41:26)

The article in last week’s Liphook says that the current bridge will be replaced by one with lifts but is this going to happen?

Are Network Rail going to pay for it and are the County Council going to contribute £500,000 of developer contributions as the article suggests?

And who is going to deal with the problem of the gap between the train and the platform? Is this South Western Railway or Network Rail or both?

It seems there are too many cooks here but let’s hope they are talking to each other.

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- James (4th Dec 2020 - 12:21:23)

Can we not just be grateful that this is getting done?

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- Keith Budden (4th Dec 2020 - 12:49:36)

Don

Yes, the footbridge with lifts is going to happen, I had this confirmed in a meeting with South Western Railway and Network Rail yesterday. Full funding has been ringfenced for this project.

Yes, some of the money is coming from S106 developer contributions under a longstanding undertaking that these funds would be used to increase accessibility at Liphook station.

Building work is already commencing and is due to be complete by August 2021 including commissioning of the lifts.

There is ongoing investigation into what can be done about platform levels etc. When I have further updates I will update TalkBack.

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- M (4th Dec 2020 - 13:56:31)

Don are you the same Don Jerrard who is a Bramshott and Liphook Parish Councillor?

If you are then I would have thought you'd of known all about this considering the Parish Council discussed the planning application and the Parish Council have been pushing for improvements to the station for years!

If you're not the same Don Jerrard then apologies and yes the bridge with lift are being built now.

If you are Councillor Don Jerrard then I think you need to be a bit more involved in the Parish you represent....... oh forgot, you don't live in the Parish do you.

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- Patk (4th Dec 2020 - 17:03:06)

Attn Keith Budden. Do,you have sisters Marion and Gillian? Lived in Petersfield,and Alton in the fifties?

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- Don Jerrard (4th Dec 2020 - 22:08:54)

Keith

Thanks for the update - really good news that the footbridge and lifts are going to be financed despite the gloomy rumours of lack of money. Personally I would have preferred long ramps as Fred suggested but thanks for your efforts and Floss Mitchell’s in getting the problem sorted

Thanks also for your continued interest and help with the platform level problem.

M
I assume you are the same M who started this thread hoping like me that the station would be improved. If you had attended recent Parish Council meetings you would have seen that I protested more than most when the original footbridge design did not include lifts. It affects me personally as the only member of the parish council who is registered disabled.

I am sorry you think I need to be more involved in the village. I moved to my present house just over a mile from the parish boundary in the late 1980s. I used Liphook station to get to and from my office in London virtually every working day until I retired. I have been a member of Old Thorns since 1988, my two sons went to Littlefield School (now Churcher’s Junior School) and got their first jobs in Liphook. I have been a member of the Parish Council for nearly 10 years now and Chairman of its Planning Committee for 5 of them.

As you say the Parish Council have wanted improvements at the station and I am pleased to have been a small part of that. So let’s work together and be pleased that the work has started and there will be something else to celebrate in 2021.

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- Keith Budden (5th Dec 2020 - 07:05:34)

Patk - sorry, no connection as far as I am aware.

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- M (5th Dec 2020 - 10:44:51)

Hi Don,
Still a little confused why you appeared to ask "will this get done" in your post a day ago about the new bridge, when it was obvious in the planning application back in the summer it was for a bridge with lifts. The same application you now admit to discussing at the B&LPC Planning meeting?
Also you can't of missed the workers compound in the Station Car Park and the old Countrywide Car Park that have been in pace over the last few weeks while the work is being carried out.
I just thought it was a strange post siting the newspaper article (easy to get hold of) rather than actually take notice of what was happening on the ground in the Parish you represent.
Appeared to me that you haven't actually visited/seen what's going on in the Parish.
Like you I am please this is happening and applaud all those who have taken an active part in trying to put pressure on interested parties to push it through.
Hopefully our Parish might get some more much needed infrastructure upgrades?

Re: New Liphook Station Footbridge with Lifts!
- L (5th Dec 2020 - 12:46:25)

It is the district council and county council and EHDC planning officers who negotiate infastructure with the developers they do not engage with the Parish council on that. Occasionally there is someone who is a Parish and district councillor at the same time who would know what was going on. If you have heard differently then we would maybe have had all the planning officers working out of the Haskell centre.


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