1,000 signatures reached
To: Cllr Nick Adams-King (Hampshire County Council) and Cllr Martin Tod (Winchester City Council)
Re-open Andover Road!
We call on Hampshire County Council to RE-OPEN Andover Road to traffic and Winchester City Council to mandate this as a condition for the approval of the Sir John Moore Barracks redevelopment
Why is this important?
Our key points:
1. Winchester Avenue with its high density social/affordable and shared-ownership terraced housing, primary school, Community Centre and many side roads is an unsuitable, low-capacity road to take this diverted traffic and the result for Kings Barton residents will be:
o Road casualties - Traffic accidents are likely to increase.
o Community severance - The volume of traffic along Winchester Avenue will make it harder to cross presenting a physical and psychological ‘barrier’ to movement and separating residents from one another and from children’s play parks.
o Noise and Air Pollution and Carbon Emissions - Will dramatically increase, due to traffic queuing in the neighbourhood centre and at access roads and pedestrian crossings.
2. Traffic will try to avoid delays on the congested Winchester Avenue by diverting through:
o Harestock and Weeke where residents will suffer additional traffic on their residential roads such as Harestock Road, Priors Dean Road and Bereweeke Avenue, and
o Headbourne Worthy and Kings Worthy where residents will suffer additional traffic on Spingvale Road, Worthy Road, Wellhouse Lane and Down Farm Lane.
3. More generally, ALL Winchester residents will suffer from delays in reaching the A34 for travel northwards and residents of Littleton, South Wonston and Sutton Scotney will suffer from delays travelling to the City Centre with additional negative consequences for emergency services.
How it will be delivered
Electronically and in person to Hampshire County Council and Winchester City Council
