You may remember that we wrote a piece way back in March on the Solent Freeport bid, asking just what it might mean for Havant. At the time, we drew a map outlining where we expected the Solent Freeport 'outer boundary' to be, since the bid documentation linked to that previous post failed to disclose … Continue reading The Solent Freeport – an update
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Kingsbridge re-imagine the traffic numbers for the ‘Pfizer site’ application
Kingsbridge Developments have added further documents to the set they submitted in February for the 32 New Lane Planning Application. Following our earlier reports on the likely impact of allowing such a traffic generating business in the middle of a town already constrained by peak time traffic issues, Kingsbridge and their Transport Consultant, Vectos, went … Continue reading Kingsbridge re-imagine the traffic numbers for the ‘Pfizer site’ application
Taking Responsibility for Traffic Management
Updated 18/4/2021 07:00 Background to this article A planning application is under review for an unnamed international warehousing and distribution company to set up a 'last mile delivery' operation at the former Pfizer site in New Lane. The 24/7, three shift operation will provide the base for more than 800 delivery vans servicing Hampshire, Sussex … Continue reading Taking Responsibility for Traffic Management
32 New Lane – The full story on traffic and jobs?
Updated – 03-4-2021:Read the main story hereRead our media comment hereRead our ‘Fact check’ post hereConsultation on this plan officially closes on Tuesday but comments can still be made online after that date. If you feel strongly about this, please do make your views known. Full details are given in the 'Main story' post, see the link … Continue reading 32 New Lane – The full story on traffic and jobs?
Fact Checking the New Lane ‘Last mile delivery’ hub application
Let's just try and 'fact check' our post on the planning submission for 32 New Lane. Statement (Fact)SourceSo who actually is it?Until the applicant comes clean and completes the documentation properly, we won't know. All we've said is that based on the information given, the '100 sites across Europe' listed in the documentation link to … Continue reading Fact Checking the New Lane ‘Last mile delivery’ hub application
The Pfizer site plan – 2,500 extra HGV/LGV and 3,000 extra car movements every day – the 24/7 cost to our residential streets.
Updated - 02-4-2021:Read our media comment hereRead our 'Fact check' post hereRead our update on traffic numbers and jobs When we first reported on this one, we only had part of the story. To be honest, even now, we have less than three quarters of the story given that the planning application was submitted, probably … Continue reading The Pfizer site plan – 2,500 extra HGV/LGV and 3,000 extra car movements every day – the 24/7 cost to our residential streets.
Havant’s ‘Last Mile Traffic’ jam?
Ask anyone who lives in the town how frustrating the last mile of their journey to work or their journey home can be and the response probably wouldn't be much of a surprise. Through traffic on Havant's town centre road network isn't exactly speedy at the best of times and when the Langstone roundabout gets … Continue reading Havant’s ‘Last Mile Traffic’ jam?
Are the Traffic team asleep at the wheel?
This would seem to be the question of the moment (read on). You probably won't be surprised to hear that this afternoon's Development Management Committee meeting passed the planning application for a Domino's pizza takeaway at the former HSBC site by 4 votes to 2. (To be fair, if the voting had been restricted to … Continue reading Are the Traffic team asleep at the wheel?
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