28/04/2024
Change is coming and we must make the most of it says Catherine Powell, Surrey County Councillor for Farnham North.
"The Town Centre works element of the Farnham Infrastructure Project are due to start in September and there will be an opportunity to view the plans at the Farnham Town Council Annual General Meeting today, 22nd of April at the Bush Hotel, starting 6.45pm"
"Schemes like these are all about compromise, short term pain for long term gain. To improve the pedestrian and shopping experience in the town’s centre, I firmly believe that we need to widen the pavements on the narrow section of The Borough and at the top of Downing Street, as well as providing additional safe pedestrian crossing points."
"That means finding ways to take traffic out of the gyratory system, with the solution being to make the section of The Borough between Castle Street and Downing Street two way, and by making the bottom of Downing Street also two way" (see illustration)
Adapting East Street For The Future
"Since the Brightwells planning application was originally approved, vehicles have increased in size and recent analysis has shown that HGVs would not be able to pass each other on the bends on the Woolmead if it was two way."
"It means that, for now, Woolmead needs to stay one way, with the revised plans for East Street, approved by Waverley Planning earlier this month, seeing it narrowed to one lane with wider pavements and an improved crossing point and Woolmead is being left one way. More road capacity than originally approved but not the hoped for pedestrianised area."