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Lotte Pegler lotte.pegler@sussexpost.co.uk AN EXTRA vehicle every two minutes could be joining the A29 from planned new homes in Shripney. THe additional traffic will be generated at peak times by the proposed scheme on land east of the busy road. Hanbury Properties has revealed its scheme for the intended development on a currently unoccupied piece of land of about 4.5 acres. Joe Davis, a landscape design consultant for Hanbury, told Bersted Parish Council concerns about adding to the traffic flow along Shripney Road was one of the main worries at a well-attended public consultation about the proposals held recently. He said: “THere’s a fear that we’ve got all that traffic coming from the new developments. People wonder how the development will impact the area. “Out transport consultant has identified two main things. First that the principle of access with West Sussex County Council is acceptable, and second that the traffic volumes themselves are accessible. “Essentially, what this all means is that there will be an additional 30 vehicles per hour, at peak hour. THat translates roughly to one vehicle every two minutes. “In transport terms that’s not really that significant. Of course we value that it’s additional traffic and that has to be bad. But in significance terms it’s very minor indeed.”
Parish council clerk Debbie Holcombe said she was worried about the position of parking spaces in and around the proposed site on the busy road. “Are the spaces right in front of the houses or are they going to be in a different area separately?,” she asked. Mr Davis acknowledged the matter had also been raised - to the company’s surprise - by the one in four of the 120 notified households who attended the consultation. “People were saying firstly make sure there’s enough parking, and the other thing they said they do not want to see is construction traffic parked there. “THat’s a good, practical point that we hadn’t thought about,” he said at Tuesday’s meeting. “We’ll clearly have a compound on the site but the management of the construction plant will stipulate that that is not an area that can be and will be policed by the people on the site. “We understand that having 15 white vans queued waiting to go onto the site is not an acceptable thing to happen so we are aware of that issue and something we can deal with in due course if it goes forward.” He added the residents had also stated the need to restrict parking on the access road to their homes which runs parallel to Shripney Road. Mr Davis was joined at the presentation to the council by Joe Godferey, a director of Hanbury and Graham Beck, from its planning consultants, Luken Beck.
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