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Major A27 Road Building on the cards AGAIN!
A pro road building group has been formed calling it self 'A27 Action'. Amongst its members is , Chichester District Council, Adur District Council, Worthing Borough Council, Horsham District Council and the leader of West Sussex County Council. Of course the local MP's Nick Herbert, Nick Gibb, Timothy Loughton, Andrew Tyrie and Peter Bottomley are in there, as well as those representing the business community. See: http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/living/roads_and_transport/roads_and_footways/development_control_plans_and/major_projects/a27_action_plan.aspx
Note they show a 6 lane dual carriageway
(Express Way) on their home page.
With great glee and back slapping they announced to the world at their launch
Thursday, 26 June 2014 in the spanking new Worthing collage, that they were
going to submit a plan to relieve congestion on the section of the A27 that runs
through their patch. That is from Shoreham in the East to Chichester in the West
and that plan would be supported by everyone. Oh yeah! tell that to all the
residents associations' along the route. Their meetings have been full to
bursting with table thumping, foot stamping and Zimmer frame speeding Tory
voters in revolt.
It seems the plan is to dual the road where there is only a single carriageway
at present. So that means building a bypass for the bypass at Arundel and in the
process destroying the ancient Tortington common / Binsted wood complex as well
as the Watermeadows along the river Arun. At Worthing it could mean removing all
the 200 or so houses from one or both sides of the road. That is unless their
cunning plan is for a Downland bypass of Worthing and Lancing (estimated cost
£2.8Billion).
Also included in their mother of all plans is an improvement to the 'Fontwell
roundabouts'. If approved that will most likely badly damage the National
Trust's Slindon wood. However in away it was to be expected for all those after
the sell by date cobwebbed brains to come up with such an impossible scheme for
the A27. But when Gary Shipton now editor-in-chief of a bunch of local papers
and previously critical of environmentally damaging schemes, openly welcomes
this groups ambitions, its serious and we must act NOW to stop what will be a
disaster.
SO will you please write to any of the following local papers and make a noise!
letters@shorehamherald.co.uk