Object
Core Strategy Preferred Approaches
Representation ID: 1332
Received: 14/07/2008
We strongly oppose the Bexhill to Hastings Link Road. This scheme has been very poorly designed and appraised by ESCC. All government Statutory Environmental Bodies (SEBS) have raised severe doubts about this scheme and its negative environmental impact. Two - Natural England and Environment Agency - have objected. The costs have more than doubled and equate to over £710 for every person in Hastings and Bexhill (Sustran, 2007). Developer funding is far from guaranteed. There are 27 mentions of BHLR in the document, and one mention of the greenway. The greenway is a concept signed up to by HBC that would deliver high quality pedestrian and cycle routes and, although these are useful 'conceptually' featured on pg 133, there is no explicit mention of their sequential delivery and the concept doesn't sufficiently permeate the document.
The pre-amble concentrates on big roads schemes first, then rail schemes.