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STEPS TOWARDS AN AGREED STATEMENT OF FACTS
And stipulations

7.4 Comments on Key Elements: Site Entrance (Continued)
This is extremely unwise, because vehicles manoeuvring in and out these spaces and garbage
carts collecting from an adjacent area would make blockage at the entrance even worse.
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The plan also shows that two blocks of affordable housing will be crammed alongside the
entrance. Reduced parking spaces (per dwelling) have been allotted to affordable housing but Page | 24
the intention appears to be not to link them to specific flats and they are woefully insufficient.

Scrambling for parking spaces will, again, jam the entrance.

Drivers who cannot find a space will have no alternative but to park on verges or on the
A22. This is the case on the southern route from Forest Row: it dangerous and is not policed.

In the past few weeks trees at the entrance have been destroyed:

Figure 12: Destruction of trees at the entrance to Wealden House

7.5 Traffic Flows on the A22
Traffic – north and south - on the A22 is fast and heavy and estimated at 700-800 vehicles
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per hour at peak times. The addition through the integrated development of 120 new homes
(and an estimated 240 vehicles) is unlikely to make a significant difference to existing traffic
flows on the main road. The problem is with entry and egress, the WORT lane, head-on
confrontation within it, and movements internal to the development.

The Transport Statement, by Motion Consultants Ltd on behalf of AHL, attempts to predict
the traffic generated by proposed development of 71 flats and concludes that there would be
a saving of around 38% from the “existing” EDF building. This claim is nonsense and based
on a circular and fallacious argument because the EDF building is unused and existing traffic
flows are approximately zero.

More relevant is a comparison with flows from a development of typical village
densities of around 30 dwellings per hectare (see Appendix C1).

This indicates that the proposed development adds around 300% to traffic flows.

33 Garbage trucks are 2.54 metres wide
34 Which is not part of the Strategic Road Network where parking is not prohibited unless it results in an
obstruction and is acted on by police. Dream on!