Help stop the Arundel Bypass
By Tor Lawrence
Chief Executive
Please Take Action Today
Help us to STOP the Arundel Bypass by responding to National Highways consultation
We have just three weeks, until Tuesday 8 March, to show National Highways that an 8km, £350 million+ new road that will sever critical wildlife corridors and degrade important woodland is not wanted or needed.
As a member of the South Coast Alliance for Transport and Environment (SCATE), the Sussex Wildlife Trust has been campaigning against this road proposal for many, many years. We agree that there are congestion issues around Arundel, but spending hundreds of millions of pounds in a nature-destroying, traffic-inducing, carbon-producing scheme to save 9.3 minutes of travel time is not the solution. Instead we have always favoured a smaller intervention between the Ford Road roundabout and Crossbush Junction, along with far more investment into integrated sustainable travel options.
The National Highways consultation document for this new bypass shows that vulnerable species including the incredibly rare Alcathoe Bat (a woodland specialist only ‘discovered’ in 2010), as well as Hazel Dormice (a priority species at risk of extinction in the UK) and irreplaceable veteran trees will be directly impacted by the proposals - and it’s our assessment that the severity of these impacts has been hugely underestimated.
We are in the midst of a climate and ecological emergency and the fact is that we urgently need to reduce travel by private car - not build new roads. Decades-worth of extensive evidence shows that new roads create new traffic. Far from solving the transport problem, road-building actually causes an increase in congestion, as well as an increase in carbon emissions.
We have created a guide, which sets out our biggest concerns, to help you respond to the consultation. We will of course be submitting a very detailed objection ourselves before the deadline. This is the last chance to have your say before National Highways submits an application to the Planning Inspectorate.
Please respond to the consultation now and help us STOP the Arundel Bypass.
Comments
This bypass is as unwanted as cancer. This road is not needed – it will destroy our countryside FOREVER. The decimation of nature, the pollution of our air and the turmoil this will being is unwarranted. NO thanks !!! Arundel alternative is all that’s required !!!!!!
15 Feb 2022 20:22:00
Save nature
15 Feb 2022 21:50:00
Think carefully chaps, please!
There is more to our tomorrows, than a motor vehicle
17 Feb 2022 11:37:00
The earth is losing wildlife they need protecting what will your children grandchildren think of your decision .? Use the alternative route.
17 Feb 2022 12:08:00
Thank you for this very clear explanation of the issues this proposed upas’s would cause to our previous wildlife and woodland.
17 Feb 2022 12:21:00
All this pressure being applied by the seemingly uncontrollable human population expansion, is in my opinion, the root cause of the negative effects on flora and fauna worldwide. Yes, we should be stopping this destructive unnecessary road building.
17 Feb 2022 13:17:00
Definitely an awful idea . The destruction of wildlife must be stopped . The council should be more responsible a and aware of the damage they are causing .
17 Feb 2022 13:20:00
Do we really want to destroy a wildlife corridor? Do we have no compassion for wildlife? You could weep with frustration.
17 Feb 2022 13:29:00
Are we not supposed to be saving the collapsing eco systems rather than adding to their and ultimately our own destruction. Go underground if you have to…
17 Feb 2022 13:30:00
Once done there is no turning back from destroying a species, and in this case several species, and all to save a few minutes?
So many of us are in such a rush we do not see what is in front of us, and we are teaching our children the same poor values. Perhaps now is the time to pause. PLEASE, do not build the by-pass!
17 Feb 2022 14:40:00
A less destructive alternative would be preferable. The cost to the environment and species seems far too high for the sake of a few minutes.
17 Feb 2022 15:29:00
The bypass was originally required to lessen fume pollution. It is no longer relevant with electric vehicles. We need to reduce vehicles, not encourage them. Improve all public transport instead.
17 Feb 2022 15:39:00
I sit in my car, in the traffic, part of the problem. I often think one day there will be such a long queue that it will start at one end and end up at the other, everyone immovable and stuck. Perhaps then change will come, although I doubt it. Please for the sake of the planet and it’s inhabitants, us included, find an alternative solution, listen to the people who know the impact it will have on the non human world. Otherwise we will be left with nothing but us, and that’s a fairly bleak outlook. We create what we “need” with a constant damaging and ruthless lack of awareness of all we harm and all we have already lost. Bigger wider roads, to hold bigger wider cars, to sit in bigger wider queues is not the answer.
17 Feb 2022 15:42:00
I’M not in favour of any new roads being built, except if this could help divert traffic away from other very sensitive areas, such as Storrington, which is counted amongst the top 20 polluted cities in England ,precisely because of people avoiding Arundel.
17 Feb 2022 15:55:00
The A27 needs this, there have been various consultations on routes and this is the result, disruption will only happen during construction and then back to a quieter life for Arundel. Now how about sorting out Worthing!!
17 Feb 2022 15:59:00
If we are to do anything at all about climate change , it is time for us to stop putting the motor car first.
Biodiversity is essential for the survival of our planet. Not the motor car which is slowly but surely destroying it .
17 Feb 2022 16:33:00
There are too many cars on the roads now. The increase of congestion in the last 5 years has become SO noticeable . The future looks bleak for our country and our children. Public transport has to be the future. Please do not build this monstrosity.
17 Feb 2022 17:54:00
People in surrounding villages beware. This road will inevitably increase traffic, for example, in Storrinngton as well. Many studies show that roads supposed to be relieved by a road in fact get more traffic.
18 Feb 2022 08:00:00
I believe that us humans have a lot to answer for, we are slowly destroying our planet. I have seen such a growth in population in this country , so many more houses being built in West Sussex destroying our country side. This new road would be a travesty our wildlife needs protecting !!! Find an alternative which doesn’t have an impact on this precious environment.
18 Feb 2022 09:11:00
You in the chairs of decision making; please, please listen to the people who are also aware of the problem, but fight for a healthy world for our children and grandchildren and more generations. More roads encourages more cars. No thanks.
Be wise and listen, please.
18 Feb 2022 12:05:00
please rethink this as we need to be aware of wildlife needs.
18 Feb 2022 16:01:00
I believe that us humans have a lot to answer for, we are slowly destroying our planet. I have seen such a growth in population in this country , so many more houses being built in West Sussex destroying our country side. This new road would be a travesty our wildlife needs protecting !!! Find an alternative which doesn’t have an impact on this precious environment.
18 Feb 2022 19:27:00
You have only to watch Countryfile to see the huge efforts being made to protect our unique and beautiful countryside and wildlife. Please think again before spending £350m + to save
9 minutes of travel.
21 Feb 2022 09:56:00
There are a lot of stupid ideas and decisions, this tops most of them. There are other ways to deal with a problem of driving faster to get somewhere 5 minutes earlier. Do you really need to destroy this area to achieve this? No, it’s only borderline incompetence. It must be difficult to sit in a meeting and make sensible decisions, especially when you could be on a ghastly golf course enjoying yourselves. Think again.
28 Feb 2022 09:24:00
Yet another desecration of our wildlife and countryside, all for the sake of saving time. . . . 9 minutes? Have we not learnt over the past two years how good it felt to live life appreciating nature and it’s importance to our wellbeing?
I believe the money spent on this proposed bypass could be better spent on the maintenance of the present roads, for example. Please re-think this and, perhaps consider a less drastic route, one that least interferes with our ever dwindling countryside.
28 Feb 2022 12:40:00
Destruction of countryside on the scale proposed is indefensible. The alternative supported by Sussex Wildlife Trust would be quite adequate for dealing with the A27 congestion at Arundel.
01 Mar 2022 21:07:00
I believe that us humans have a lot to answer for, we are slowly destroying our planet. I have seen such a growth in population in this country , so many more houses being built in West Sussex destroying our country side. This new road would be a travesty our wildlife needs protecting !!! Find an alternative which doesn’t have an impact on this precious environment.
11 Sep 2022 20:07:00