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To: Tim Lawton - Assistant Director - Highways, Engineering and Transport, Hampshire County Council
Woolmer Lane Resurfacing
Arrange for the resurfacing of the entire length of Woolmer Lane or at the very least undertake permanent repairs of those areas where there are existing potholes and where previous temporary infills have resulted in a bumpy, uneven surface which will almost certainly break up within a very short period.
Why is this important?
Woolmer Lane, Bramshott is in a permanent state of disrepair.
Resurfacing will achieve a long-lasting solution to a perennially defective and potentially unsafe single carriageway road on a high dependency access route.
Resurfacing will achieve a long-lasting solution to a perennially defective and potentially unsafe single carriageway road on a high dependency access route.
The planned bridge repairs involving the closure of Woolmer Lane from 1-19 September provides an ideal opportunity, not to be passed up, to resurface the road. It is understood the road is or has been on the Council's schedule for future resurfacing.
As far as can be ascertained, the road repairs planned for the final days of the road closure, from 17-19 September, do not involve any resurfacing as not necessarily within the compass of a 'dragon patcher' or part of the Council's planned works programme.
- The road closure 1-19 September presents a unique opportunity for resurfacing.
- The lane is permanently potholed and to the extent that the constantly occurring defects are classed as safety hazards, may therefore be perpetually unsafe. This is due wholly or in part to the Council's maintenance regime, which seems to rely mainly on website reports from users - a tedious and tiresome process - being ineffective.
- It is particularly unsafe in wet conditions and at night when potholes cannot readily be seen. Potholes are also difficult to avoid because the road is single track with steep banks on either side in many places.
- Woolmer Lane is the only means of access for the 23 Ludshott Manor properties and other neighbours (many are two-car families), who live at the end of Woolmer Lane, and who each may use the lane several times a day. In addition, there are daily deliveries and other visitors to each property. Thus the daily usage of the road is potentially significant, not including those residents living along the road itself.
- The lane is also a footway and a principal route for walkers, cyclists and horse riders to access Ludshott Common. For these users, the road surface defects add to the already hazardous bends and gradients along the route.
- Damage to tyres and vehicle suspensions together with the associated costs will be avoided.
- One of the reasons given in the past for not resurfacing the lane i.e. road closure, is removed.
