Crunch time for Adur Bridge / Ferry Road Improvement Scheme

Hello and welcome to my blog. It's D-Day minus two for the Adur Bridge / Ferry Road Improvement Scheme. On 11th March, Adur CLC will decide whether or not it goes ahead and if so, in what form.
     The committee report lists three available options;

1. Implementation of the scheme as first advertised - no compromise offered to shop owners. They lose all three parking spaces and the original scheme goes ahead.

     This has not been recommended to the CLC due to the public objections i.e three shop owners plus 274 letters in support. 

2. Partial implementation of the scheme - a compromise offered to the shop owners and access is maintained to the public hard.

     This has been recommended to the CLC because it saves one of the three parking bays in dispute and maintains the access rights to the slipway area for fishing boats and leisure craft.

3. Partial implementation of the scheme - shop owners insist on protecting three parking spaces hence no development of Ferry Road. 

     This has not been recommended to the CLC as only the work to the north of Riverside Road would be completed. The consequences arising from the difficulty of obtaining additional funding required for these parking spaces, would be no development of Ferry Road and the existing pedestrian crossing.

     So what of the 1460 people who signed a petition asking for the problems to be resolved and the scheme to be implemented? Only the e-petition, which was signed by 411 people, was mentioned in the committee papers. Thus, over the last few days, there has been some rapid email exchanges between Ferry Road Action Group and WSCC, culminating in the following:-

"At the time of drafting the TRO report the overall petition had not been completed/closed hence the numbers not being updated, my apologies for this.

      At the CLC, officers from Adur and WSCC will provide an overview of the project and the plans to move this forward. The lead petitioner will then be given the opportunity to provide a short statement before members debate the options.." (WSCC)

     Hence it's up to Keith, the lead petitioner, to represent the views of the 900 people who signed the paper petition. That's a hefty burden to carry so please come to support him at this Wednesday's meeting. It really is crunch time. 

PLEASE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE SCHEME

COME TO THE CLC MEETING

on

WEDNESDAY 11TH MARCH

at

7.00pm

at 

St. Peter's RC Primary School

Sullington Way

Shoreham-by-Sea

West Sussex

BN43 6PJ

     Incidentally, the agenda also lists a presentation by the Highways Authority on the Wildlife Music Festival at Shoreham Airport.

See you on Wednesday. 

Thanks for droppping by. Ta-ra for now.

STOP PRESS

CLC VOTED FOR OPTION 2

START DATE OF THE  PROJECT TO BE CONFIRMED. 

BUILD TIME APPROXIMATELY 14 WEEKS

PEOPLE POWER WORKED. TIME TO TAKE THE SHOES AWAY.