Have your say: North Shore / Bransty Arch proposals final consultation

A consultation has been running last week and this week into the revised proposed scheme to improve the North Shore junction area to the North of Whitehaven Town Centre.

Cumbria County Council is proposing to reconfigure the road junction at Bransty Row / North Shore Road in the town's North Shore area, which would help to pave the way for significant new development. The scheme is designed to assist future development in the North Shore area and create an enhanced entrance into Whitehaven. In doing so, the scheme will ease congestion, improve traffic flow and enhance road safety for drivers and pedestrians.

The government is putting in £ 1.66m of taxpayers' money for this highways upgrade scheme from the National Productivity Investment Fund, and a £ 834,000 contribution has been made by property firm BEC.

Details have been displayed at two public exhibitions at the portacabin opposite Wetherspoons and at Tescos: they can still be seen at the Daniel Hay library in Lowther Street, Whitehaven and online at

http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/bransty/.

The consultation will close on 18 October 2018. Any comments or objections to the proposals should be emailed to kim.baxter@cumbria.gov.uk or posted to: Cumbria County Council, Customer and Community Services, Cumbria House, Carlisle, CA1 1RD by 18 October 2018. Correspondence should be marked with the reference: KB4.41008/15001358.


Councillor Keith Hitchen, Chair of Cumbria County Council's Copeland Local Committee, said:

"This is a key junction providing a gateway into Whitehaven. The improvements being proposed will not only unlock substantial new investment in the town by BEC, but also improve traffic flow and road safety locally. The original plans attracted a lot of good ideas, comments and interest when we held a consultation in April. We have listened to what people had to say, taken account of that feedback and made changes to the scheme. We're now holding a new consultation on the revised plans and inviting people to tell us what they think."

Comments

Anonymous said…
"This is a key junction providing a gateway into Whitehaven." Uh?

Still very little consideration for pedestrians.
7:44 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
With all due respect that really is not true.

The proposals include pedestrian provision at all arms of the traffic light junction which is to be added at the North Shore junction, and at Grange Street, as well as measures designed to stop parking where it blocks footways.

The objectives of the scheme include providing improved pedestrian crossing points and links between the harbour, the proposed new developments and the town centre's historic core.

9:09 am
Anonymous said…
Where is the pedestrian link to the harbour?
7:59 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
From the West side of North Shore.

If you can't see it on the plans I suggest you contact David Haughian or Kim Baxter using the contact details on the website linked to above and they should be able to help you.
12:21 am
Anonymous said…
How wide is the pavement at point E?
1:14 am
Chris Whiteside said…
I put this post up to draw attention to the consultation and let people know how they could use the official channels to feed into it.

I'm entirely willing to listen to what people say and respond on the broad outlines but matters of detail and formal responses are best taken up with or directed to the professional officers who are actually running the consultation, rather than posted as a comment on this blog or directed through social media to any individual councillor.

As per my suggestion above, I strongly recommend that the person who asked how wide the pavement was at point E, or anyone else with a point of detail should contact David Haughian or Kim Baxter using the contact details on the website linked to above

e.g. npif@cumbria.gov.uk or kim.baxter@cumbria.gov.uk

and they should be able to help you. The consultation will formally finish at COP on Thursday 18th October but I'm sure they won't stop answering questions or listening to feedback at that point.

The final decision will probably be made at the next Copeland Area local committee of CCC on 27th November 2018.
9:41 am
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