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Re:Car Free Development - 2006/04/28 16:50Annabel, car clubs are I feel definately coming and can work, see www.streetcar.com. I do not know if they intend to open up in lewes,but they are now in Brighton. I feel a car club in Phoenix could also be available to neighbouring streets it just needs to be looked into. The proposed hopper bus is something I feel the development could provide seed funding for as part of our s106 agreement. I suggested it could be gas powered because it really annoys me that the public transport system of buses and taxis, particularly in London is one of the worst polluters as they run diesel v ehicles. This seems anomolous as to try to encourage the use of public transport that actually pollutes the environment seems odd. All the various community benefits from the project including the Hopper bus and car clubs are going to be dependent on getting a viable mix and quantity of uses onto the site.
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Annabel Davies
Re:Car Free Development - 2006/04/28 16:56I think you are missing the point I was trying to make Adam. Yes I do own a car, but only because there is not currently any viable alternative. If however there was a sufficient local bus service and I could join a local car club I would definately want to lose the car!
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Dea Campbell
Re:Car Free Development - 2006/04/28 20:40I don't think it's really relevant to make personal remarks, which always seem to be the mark of a losing argument. But if we must, here goes. If I lived in a car free development I wouldn't have a car. At the moment I don't have a choice. Nobody would be forced at gunpoint to live in a car-free development. The people who wanted to buy or rent houses there would do so, leaving space for those who are not so inclined to live elsewhere. Has political correctness really got so absurdly out of hand that people would claim 'discrimination' if there was a pocket of land in Lewes inhabited by people who want to live differently?
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RBB
Re:Car Free Development - 2006/04/30 11:58the developer has admitted elsewher on this site that he intends to sell off bits of the Phoenix when he has planning permission. This is why he wants value added parking spaces in the permission, as it will increase his profits. He is doing nothing dynamic, forward thinking, or creative to address this issue he is, for profit, simply creating a massive amount of car-use for flats and recreational facilities, in a traffic bottle neck, and then creating another demand by shifting the traffic generated in an established industrial zone into another bottleneck on the other side of the river. I'm sorry, but a roundabout and an access road by Waitrose do not address the traffic that will be generated throughout the town. Lewes cannot take more traffic, it is as simple as that.
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charles style
Re:Car Free Development - 2006/04/30 14:28RBB, the quantity and location of car parking spaces in the development will be agreed with the planners in advance of our application being submitted and will accord with the standards set by East Sussex County Council. They will not exceed these standards. The site at Malling Brooks is already zoned for industrial uses so the car parking associated with it as well as the long stay car parking that has been allocated to that site will again accord with the standards set by East Sussex. The traffic assessment we are providing with our planning application is a combined traffic assessment for both sites.There is also the traffic model undertaken by East Sussex. These will state the actual effects of the proposals on traffic in Lewes and will not be a vague and unsubstantiated assumption as you are making.
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RBB
Re:Car Free Development - 2006/04/30 15:32East Sussex Highways are not responsible for sorting out the developers traffic problems. Are we supposed to believe thet they have been spending all their time with the developer working out the road layouts, and traffic generation figures for the development, sitting with the developer, planning where the traffic can go throughout the town, providing him with TRICS figures so he can make comparissons and approving of all these arrangements every step of the way. The developer has no idea if the parking, highway and traffic generation arrangement are acceptable or not, so shouldn't be criticising others who have a different view.
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