Cala Homes currently building 200 homes at “Enton Meadows” (not meadows, not in Enton) have scheduled a closure of Station Lane in Milford. This is for electricity and gas roadworks. It will be traffic lights all day and then at 6pm closure til 5 am. The official diversion booked and agreed with Surrey CC is via Hambledon. This will divert vehicles that normally use Station Lane to the A281 and through Malthouse Lane and Hydestile Crossroads. This will include HGVs (despite the 7.5t restriction on all roads) and the 25 or more artics that deliver produce to the Tuesley Farm fruit packing/distribution hub. Tuesley Farm has HGVs movements upto 10pm routinely.
There is also closure of Woodlands 16-17th Sept.
I predict chaos, stoicism and a terse letter in bold font to our County Councillors.
It would seem more logical to devise a better diversion route avoiding the single file lanes. How about from Milford to Godalming and turn on Brighton Road B2130 to Hascombe and East that way? Going Westwards they could divert at Loxhill and take the reverse route to Godalming and then A3.
Roadworks details on the roadmap site.
Footnote: In the longer term this roadworks closure will be repeated when Cala Homes will revise the alignment of Station Lane. I anticipate this will require at least a month of closure. Cala are currently trying to re-negotiate the planning condition to delay doing this until after they have completed 50 homes. In short the road re-alignment will move Station Lane to the South (that’s why the trees were downed) to permit a wider pavement on the North side. This wider pavement will also extend over the old Ock Bridge. The bridge is not going to be widened so the road will be narrowed to single file. This will then need a “One way shuttle” scheme to alternate traffic over the bridge – with a priority from the Milford side. Other works include widening the approaches to the mini roundabout to increase capacity. However capacity will be reduced by a series of yellow hatched boxes, speed humps, pedestrian crossings and traffic calming. All in all, when complete, these works will amount to a reduction in capacity for the road and increased congestion at all the junctions.
You can find out more about the future chaos that will almost inevitably ensue here.
Paul Osborne – (traffic warrior)
Yep…. Build the houses forget the infrastructure sounds about right 👍
Combined with regular 10 minute waits at Milford station I would say an immediate disaster followed by a long term disaster. It will be quicker going to Waitrose rather than our local shops. Wrong however you look at it. Must have been somewhere else to build 200 houses without ruining so many people’s lives. Must have been a lot of money changing hands for this to have been agreed or else some very stupid people.
Hi Nick – I made representations at the time of the development proposals being put before the Council. Unfortunately the administration at that time were set on approval at whatever cost and would placate the locals by offering “loads of affordable housing” and lots of road improvements – ie a pavement that wasn’t dangerous. It was physically impossible to make a wide pavement without restricting road width… so a bodge scheme was slipped in without full scrutiny. Highways believed all the developers’ Transport Consultant’s unsubstantiated BS – ignoring traffic projections from Dunsfold/Cranleigh/new builds and twisting the scheme to reduce speed… Read more »