Fulking Parish Council will hold their quarterly meeting at 7:30 on Thursday April 9th in the Village Hall — agenda. Members of the Press and Public are welcome to attend.
Derek Blackhall
Clerk to Fulking Parish Council
01273 846186
22 Kymer Gardens
Hassocks
West Sussex
BN6 8QZ
(using the email address below)
Brisk walks and bus rides – sounds like just the ticket. The new 77 bus timetable is out for the Dyke to Brighton route. This forms part of the “Breeze up to the Downs” partnership between B&H City Council, The National Trust and SDNP. It starts on 19th April, and from 14th June to 31st August you can, er, “do it topless”. More importantly it now connects with similar services to Stanmer Park and Ditchling Beacon. More details here…
Starts Monday, not Tuesday. You will not be able to drive through Poynings from 9:00am on 2nd February until (at worst) some time on 6th February because the road will be blocked by a large vehicle being used as a basis for pruning. Pedestrians will be able to get past it. Use Clappers Lane or Edburton Road if you want to escape from Fulking in a car.
Fulking Parish Council will hold their quarterly meeting at 7:30 on Thursday January 8th in the Village Hall — agenda. Members of the Press and Public are welcome to attend.
Andrea Dickson
Clerk to Fulking Parish Council
01444 451060/andreadicksonfpc@gmail.com
The Highways Agency has pledged to complete three major roadworks schemes in the Crawley area in time for Christmas and the New Year. Stabilisation work on one and a half miles of embankment slopes on the M23 at Junction 8 will be completed, as will thirteen miles of resurfacing work on the A23 and one mile of barrier replacement work on the M23. In addition, eleven miles of roadworks at the A23 widening scheme at Handcross will be lifted for Christmas and New Year .. more lanes will be open and many of the associated speed restrictions will be lifted.
The Littlehampton Gazette reports (from Hansard, presumably):
[Transport Secretary Patrick] McLoughlin assured East Worthing and Shoreham MP Tim Loughton that dualling through Worthing was a possibility. Mr Loughton said: “There will be dancing in the streets of Lancing, Sompting and Worthing this evening, not least amid the static traffic on the A27 itself. For the avoidance of doubt, will he (Mr McLoughlin) confirm that the option of full dualling through Worthing, the largest town in Sussex, is very much on the table as part of his announcement?”
The Transport Secretary replied: “I do not encourage anybody to dance on the roads. On the point about dualling the area, that is certainly on the table. It is for local people to show their enthusiasm for such a scheme, so that we can move it forward.”
The Transport Secretary has today (Monday 1 December) announced up to £250 million of funding for a new dual carriageway bypass of Arundel, linking together the two existing dual carriageway sections of the road. Previous plans for an Arundel bypass were cancelled in 2003.
The new bypass will complete the “missing link” between the two existing dual-carriageway sections, running on the previous preferred ‘pink-blue’ route, subject to consultation with the South Downs National Park Authority, local authorities and the publication of this and alternative options.
Nick Herbert MP said:
Along with all of Arundel’s elected representatives at the town, district and county council level, I continue to believe that the bypass is needed, and that an offline bypass on the previously agreed ‘pink-blue’ route is by far the best option. I am glad that this is the starting point for the consultation, and I do not support other proposed routes.
According to the Department of Transport’s Feasibility Study there are around 25,000 traffic movements through Arundel on the A27 every day, nearly 80 per cent of which is through traffic and not local. Sussex Enterprise have calculated that poor transport links in the county are costing £2 billion a year.
