|
Transport
Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Update
(June 2007)
Follow the link to the ESCC website to view this application.
For many years now CPRE Sussex has worked with the Hastings Alliance and its member organisations opposing environmentally damaging road schemes around Hastings . The Bexhill to Hastings Link Road is the latest proposal, and if built, is unlikely to be the last, with ideas still alive at County Hall to send further stretches of tarmac down the Brede Valley and beyond towards Winchelsea and Rye. Add in the concrete aspirations for a superhighway along the South Downs in East and West Sussex and a clear picture emerges of unsustainable transport, unsustainable development, and degraded countryside on a huge scale.
In addition to ruining to what the Council itself calls one of the most attractive valleys in the county, it is also going to take large sums of tax payers money if the government pays out. The original estimate of £47m which the government agreed to has now doubled.
Approval of the road could take a further two years, with inflation for major building projects running at 8.5%pa costs will contine to spiral.
If the money is spent on the Link Road it is likely that efforts to regenerate the many existing properties in the town will be diverted focusing on new build to the north of Bexhill. The road will also make it easier for people to travel away to work.
East Sussex County Council have submitted the planning application for construction of the Bexhill to Hastings Link Road to their own planning committee. The consultation closed on the 6th July 2007.
Thank you to all those who contributed to the 1400 letters of objection received by ESCC.
Further information can be obtained from Hastings Alliance lead campaigner Derrick Coffee on 01424 446373. E-mail: derrick.coffee@talk21.com
Back to top
|
