Leave the lane open but install some traffic calming.
If this closes it will leave it open wide for few years down the line to be used for access to housing development on both sides of the lane as the safety aspect will have been removed.
I agree with previous comment about Five heads road being more dangerous my parent live in Five head roads and they have seen no end on development since they moved to a quiet country lane, which will only become worsened if the build is granted for Chalk Road.
Stick with the Dell piece east development which will fund infer-structure upgrades to cope with additional residents and traffic the smaller developments will not provide sufficient funds to make and difference but will only further destroy our country side and our village status.
Patricia Hewland - 9 years ago
I do not agree with the idea of closing White Dirt Lane. It is an important link between Clanfield and Catherington and for parents to take their children to the school at Catherington would need to go via Drift Road. I am in favour of traffic calming measures.
Paul Summers - 9 years ago
I totally agree that closing this road is a ridiculous idea. Traffic calming would be an obvious option. Closing a road that is an important link between Clanfield and Catherington would be a major impact to the local community. Does this mean that any road that is deemed busy, with people driving too fast willl be closed in future ?
chris girlow - 9 years ago
put calming measures in cut the hedges back
Mike Elcome - 9 years ago
Make it a bus route again, that will cure the speeding. When the busses ran along White Dirt Lane the traffic was calmer.
Simon P Sinclair - 9 years ago
I really don't understand why we are having yet another poll.
And where did this option of closing 'the bottom section of the lane' come from? This particular wording is completely new. Perhaps the pollsters might furnish us with the option of a Catherington flyover. Then we could all vote on that too.
Such an option would muddy the waters good and proper and stop all this rubbish about the safety of pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders and children. If you can't afford a fast armoured vehicle which can take a few knocks and sweep or intimidate other road users out of the way you shouldn't be using White Dirt Lane - it's obvious.
Christopher Duggan - 9 years ago
Entirely agree with and support the two comments already submitted. Very surprised to find that closure has apparently emerged as the favoured option and can only assume this reflects the views of White Dirt Lane residents although even in their case I can see significant disadvantages to complete closure. Would be interested to know how many responded to the HCC poll, and to see a breakdown of where the responses came from. Was the poll sufficiently widely publicised? Closure of this road really isn't a good idea.
Andrew Stevens - 9 years ago
Closing this road is short sighted and ridiculous. Five Heads road is far more dangerous, no pavement, should this be closed too? Roads Hill? Blendworth Lane? Closing this road will see an accident on the bottom of Catherington where it meets Downhouse, a dangerous blind bend you can't see left on. Speeds on the surrounding roads are of lethal hights, in 20 years of driving I've lost a wing mirror, this is being blown out of all proportion, my tin foil hat head suggests exclusive cul-de-sac is the driving force here, increasing property values. Adding the mile on the school run 4 times a day, do the maths, £250 in extra fuel alone. We live in Catherington Parish, shame we will have to drive through another village to get to our parish school, church and pub. A village of two halfs. Our road Southdown used to be a dead end, it was when we bought the house, it's now a rat run with cars doing over 70mph on, surely that's more dangerous. Drive the road as it should be driven and its no more dangerous than any other.
Jenny Andrews - 9 years ago
Closure may be an option for the very few residents of White Dirt Lane but the residents in the wider community also use this road and to close it all together would be overkill for them.
Leave the lane open but install some traffic calming.
If this closes it will leave it open wide for few years down the line to be used for access to housing development on both sides of the lane as the safety aspect will have been removed.
I agree with previous comment about Five heads road being more dangerous my parent live in Five head roads and they have seen no end on development since they moved to a quiet country lane, which will only become worsened if the build is granted for Chalk Road.
Stick with the Dell piece east development which will fund infer-structure upgrades to cope with additional residents and traffic the smaller developments will not provide sufficient funds to make and difference but will only further destroy our country side and our village status.
I do not agree with the idea of closing White Dirt Lane. It is an important link between Clanfield and Catherington and for parents to take their children to the school at Catherington would need to go via Drift Road. I am in favour of traffic calming measures.
I totally agree that closing this road is a ridiculous idea. Traffic calming would be an obvious option. Closing a road that is an important link between Clanfield and Catherington would be a major impact to the local community. Does this mean that any road that is deemed busy, with people driving too fast willl be closed in future ?
put calming measures in cut the hedges back
Make it a bus route again, that will cure the speeding. When the busses ran along White Dirt Lane the traffic was calmer.
I really don't understand why we are having yet another poll.
And where did this option of closing 'the bottom section of the lane' come from? This particular wording is completely new. Perhaps the pollsters might furnish us with the option of a Catherington flyover. Then we could all vote on that too.
Such an option would muddy the waters good and proper and stop all this rubbish about the safety of pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders and children. If you can't afford a fast armoured vehicle which can take a few knocks and sweep or intimidate other road users out of the way you shouldn't be using White Dirt Lane - it's obvious.
Entirely agree with and support the two comments already submitted. Very surprised to find that closure has apparently emerged as the favoured option and can only assume this reflects the views of White Dirt Lane residents although even in their case I can see significant disadvantages to complete closure. Would be interested to know how many responded to the HCC poll, and to see a breakdown of where the responses came from. Was the poll sufficiently widely publicised? Closure of this road really isn't a good idea.
Closing this road is short sighted and ridiculous. Five Heads road is far more dangerous, no pavement, should this be closed too? Roads Hill? Blendworth Lane? Closing this road will see an accident on the bottom of Catherington where it meets Downhouse, a dangerous blind bend you can't see left on. Speeds on the surrounding roads are of lethal hights, in 20 years of driving I've lost a wing mirror, this is being blown out of all proportion, my tin foil hat head suggests exclusive cul-de-sac is the driving force here, increasing property values. Adding the mile on the school run 4 times a day, do the maths, £250 in extra fuel alone. We live in Catherington Parish, shame we will have to drive through another village to get to our parish school, church and pub. A village of two halfs. Our road Southdown used to be a dead end, it was when we bought the house, it's now a rat run with cars doing over 70mph on, surely that's more dangerous. Drive the road as it should be driven and its no more dangerous than any other.
Closure may be an option for the very few residents of White Dirt Lane but the residents in the wider community also use this road and to close it all together would be overkill for them.