Comments on: Section 106

By: Roundabout

Roundabout — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:21:51 +0000

[...] I noticed that there are some roadworks on Woodman’s Hill.Â Dare we hope that these are the long-overdue traffic-calming measures that were part of the S106 planning conditions on the Highwood Park [...]

By: Skuds

Skuds — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:26:48 +0000

Thats good to hear Jim. I hope it is not yet another false dawn.

I am also unconvinced that a mini roundabout is the best solution and only accepted it as being better than nothing, but maybe we will be pleasantly surprised. At the moment the road is one big accident waiting to happen, especially now I am cycling on it sometimes…

By: Cllrmcg

Cllrmcg — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:45:53 +0000

Better late than never, I suppose. I seem to have been chasing the County engineers up for ever on this one. The recent delays can partly be put down again (ah yawn….) to a public utility provider. But now, I am assured, work will commence on the construction of a mini roundabout at the junction of Iveagh Close and Woodman’s Hill at the start of the summer school vacation…… Now whether this is an appropriate traffic calming measure is the subject of another (historical) debate but that was clearly a Borough Council issue so if I can have Pilate’s bowl I’ll wash my hands now.

By: Skuds

Skuds — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:42:05 +0000

One of the reasons why I get so pissed off about this particular site is that, unless I am mistaken, I was chairing the committee that gave planning permission! (And Danivon would have been on the same committee)

We made a point of making traffic calming a condition of the permission, but by the time it got built we were not involved any more.

I have thought for a long time that the council is weak on enforcement, mainly because of a lack of resources in that area.

We can lobby for traffic calming, but there are many places in town that need it: it could be years or decades before it gets to the top of the list. Thats why I was so pleased we (seemingly) got it as part of a S106: it by-passed the waiting list.

By: Danivon

Danivon — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:36:23 +0000

Mr Mike…

When the planning permission was given, it was the planning department and the Councillors who _added_ and passed the provision that the developer had to submit to the S106 agreement. It’s now a contractual matter between CBC and the developer to get the work paid for and done, and so just because the houses are complete, the developer cannot just walk away.

Unless CBC let them, that is. One would hope that the local Borough councillors would be on the case.

By: Mr Mike

Mr Mike — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:31:52 +0000

I think we are all singing off the same song sheet here. Who was in the Chair of planning or on the planning team from the Council that approved all this. We should find out if they are still on the Council and ask them why they accepted the plans from Bellwinch to make so much money at the expense of Broadfield residents and leave such a mess behind.

By: Mr Mike

Mr Mike — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:55:16 +0000

Bellwinch homes will do nothing now that they have sold the properties, this should of been sorted when the planning was originally put through.

We can only lobby West Sussex to install some traffic calming measure now. Any suggestions.

By: Skuds

Skuds — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:47:09 +0000

Jim has been looking into it for me, but as Danivon says the agreement is between the developers and Crawley council and its a legal contract between those two parties.

By: Danivon

Danivon — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:59:12 +0000

Because it’s the Borough Council’s job to enforce their own planning application conditions?

By: Mr Mike

Mr Mike — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:12:14 +0000

I thought Jim McGough was the County Councillor, should he sort this. Why has he not got some thing done about this