Protest group denied judicial review into road project (From The Argus)
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Protest group denied judicial review into road project
9:37am Friday 10th August 2012 in News
A protest group is “extremely disappointed” that it has been refused a judicial review into a road project.
The Hastings Alliance were responding to a decision in the High Court not to grant leave for a judicial review of the Secretary of State’s decision to part-fund the Bexhill to Hastings Link Road (BHLR).
The campaign group described the decision as “a body blow for sustainable transport” and that they would now consider the future direction of the campaign.
The Government awarded £56 million in March’s budget towards the 5km scheme to link the A259 and B2092.
Hastings Alliance has appealed for the publication of the Department for Transport’s recommendations to Secretary of State Justine Greening made days before the budget statement.
Chairman Nick Bingham said: “This is indeed a blow to our campaign, but the robust case against the BHLR remains.
“It now looks as if the county council will begin its destruction of Combe Haven Valley as we know it, in January.”
East Sussex County Council leader Peter Jones criticised the original call for a judicial review as a delaying tactic.
The council claims the relief road will enable the building of up to 2,000 new homes and business park, creating more than 3,000 new jobs and providing a £1 billion boost to the economy.
Comments(6)
HJarrs
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11:05am Fri 10 Aug 12
Poccypoc wrote:And after the motorway between Folkestone in Kent and Honiton in Devon it would be the bypass to the motorway and so on. We are already building bypasses to bypasses!
Some of these people wouldn't let us have cars if they had their way. It's a pity the last Government didn't go ahead with the planned motorway between Folkestone in Kent and Honiton in Devon. Yes, the countryside is great, but we also have to live, work, get about. Some of these protesters live in their tiny worlds and think the earth ends at the end of their street of village.
You may wish to live in a country concreted over, driving from reatil box to retail box from a lego land house, but I don't share this view.
This scheme like the original scheme some years ago gives money to road building only and say, electrification and doubling of the Hastings to Ashford line with parkway stations for large scale modal shift is not considered. Nor are journey reduction measures considered. King car wins again.
Tailgaters Anonymous
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12:21pm Fri 10 Aug 12
Those who protest about road improvements really have no sense of preserving anything as the weight of traffic is channelled away from what they hold dear.
Why not champion for the return of Roman road surfaces to complete the fun?
Poccypoc
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1:02pm Fri 10 Aug 12
Tailgaters Anonymous wrote:Quite right, Tailgaters. I look at the A27 from my window and think what a beautiful road it is - an east-west paradise, with vehicles getting where the want to go. Sometimes, I visit the bridge over the A27 near the Foredown Tower. I watch the traffic for hours, and also look across the wonderful city of Brighton and Hove, a view that allows the RSCH, the county cricket ground, Hangleton and the city centre to be encompassed in a single eye-line.
East Sussex and its denizens must be really proud of the 14 miles of dual carriageway that it boasts!
Those who protest about road improvements really have no sense of preserving anything as the weight of traffic is channelled away from what they hold dear.
Why not champion for the return of Roman road surfaces to complete the fun?
HJarrs
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4:26pm Fri 10 Aug 12
There is no reason why society cannot be moderately reworked to reduce the need to travel as much by road; we have incredible technology that allows face-to-face meetings over the internet, services should be carried out by more locally employed people and there is opportunity to vastly improve public transport. Also, those owning vehicles should take responsibility to buy the reasonabley smallest and most economical vehicles that fit their purpose; that alone would free up millions of spaces on the roads and for parking.
I fear this is more to do with status or "living the dream" as is constantly advertised to us rather than about utility and economy.
redwing
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10:21am Sat 11 Aug 12
The programme is repeated on Sunday the 12th of August at 5.00pm and will be available to listen online for a while too.
Poccypoc says...
10:52am Fri 10 Aug 12
Yes, the countryside is great, but we also have to live, work, get about.
Some of these protesters live in their tiny worlds and think the earth ends at the end of their street of village.