Policy T3 - Upgrade to Cherry Orchard Way

If the airport is to support and encourage growth in business then upgrading Cherry Orchard way is to be supported to minimise disruption to through traffic.

A dual carriageway will be safer than the existing single carriageway

If this road is being opened up as a dual carriage way and stops at Hall Road, where will all the traffic then go back onto the B roads and cause much more congestion. I dont feel that this is environmentally good at all. More cars means more polution and why should be end up like Heathrow and live in houses no-one want to live in.

What is the point of a part dual carriageway? This will simply move the traffic jam furrther up the road. A common mistake repeated all over this country.

There is a need to keep traffic away from Hall Road as this just creates congestion at the Railway Bridge.

This would be an integral part of the road improvements and wil help to keep traffic moving.

will ease traffic flow between Southend & Rochford

Object.

expansion will result in more congestion to an already highly congested area particularly with regard to main feeder arterial roads

If a dual- carrigeway is required to cope with traffic in Cherry Orchard Way what will be the implications at the north end where it meets the single lane Hall Road? Is the result likely to mean that road widening into Rochford and through to Hockley and Rayleigh will then be required so further degrading the local environment? The whole plan is only viable if the A127 can cope with the traffic into and out of the airport and I doubt that.

What are the perceived benefits of dualling Cherry Orchard Way? It's a bit like that barmy scheme that was proposed for Priory Park, i.e. you still have a bottleneck at each end. If safety is an issue, impose a speed limit and stick a couple of those cameras up. Actually, thinking about it, a dual carriageway will encourage faster driving.

I feel that traffic levels are at a premium in this area currently and I oppose any widening of existing roads or creations of new roads.

I fully support

Where is the sense of doubling the number of vehicles using a part-dual carriageway, only to end in an exisisting bottleneck. It would cause gridlock.

Safer, faster, designed for the purpose. Cherry Orchard Way could do with being made a dual carriageway whether the airport is upgraded or not. I fully support this idea.

The upgrading of Cherry Orchard Lane will not help, as it will only speed traffic into congested roads which cannot cope with extra traffic. It will cut into further greenbelt land reducing the countryside. Our area is becoming far too built-up.

STRONGLY OBJECT TO ALL EXPANSION. Do minimum or preferably no expansion.The increase in aircraft noise for us residents will become intolerable, emissions will increase. The road system cannot cope with current traffic levels. If 2m passenger movements are reached this will require about 4000 extra car journeys per day!!! Imagine the road upgrading work for the next few years that would be required. This area has a high percentage of elderly people who hardly fly. Who will the expansion benefit, people flying from outside the region and the business people and major shareholders who will make millions of pounds.

No expansion please.

only as and if it becomes necesary

yet more precious green belt being grabbed and a faster dual carriage way leading on to an already congested single carriage way is going to cause further gridlock

I strongly object to the plans to extend southend airport. I do not believe the area needs another airport, particularly one that is in an urban area and will effect many people's lives in leigh on sea, both financially through the fall in house prices and environmentally. Plans to have night flights are totally unacceptable and will be detremental people's lives including children and will effect their education. I for one will be discussing this with my Local MP to stop this ridiculous proposal. A far better plan would have been to move the Hospital to the Airport site!!!

This will have a negative on:-

1. Environment (noise and pollution)
2. Wildlife and greenbelt
3. Surrounding residential properties
4. Public Services (Health and Education)
5. Infrastructure (congestion)

I dont believe the sweetner on job creation given the current climate so dont be fooled by this one. I can't see many companies wanting to invest in this proposal.

I agree with "objector 5115" who points out that the improvement of one part of the road system inevitably produces a bottle-neck wherever it ends. The entire road system of the town would need up-grading to accommodate all the extra traffic which would be generated if the proposed airport expansion were to go ahead...And haven't I been hearing for the past few years that Global Warming is being caused by all the excess carbon pollution, produced from traffic and aircraft and that we should all be aiming to reduce both of these types of emissions? Yes. I thought so.

Object to the airport expansion. Therefore no 'upgrade' needed. Who will compensate local residents for the noise and disruption; shorter and sadly far longer term?

A junction from Cherry Orchard Way, into Aviation Way on the corner by the Westcliff Rugby Club would take much (northside airport/Aviation way) traffic away from the roundabout on the junction with Eastwoodbury Lane/Cherry Orchard Way (southern end).

I am against all expansion at Southend airport.

I object to this and any thing to do with the expansion of the airport.

Object Policy T3: Object to the airport expansion and therefore there is no need for 'upgrade'.

Are they going to make this a dual carriageway so that more traffic can divert through to hockley and rochford, to avoid the stupid idea of divirting eastwoodbury lane?

There is little point in creating a better link to the A127 when it will be the A127 itself causing the restriction to traffic flows.

The junctions at Cuckoo Corner Roundabout, Hoblythick Lane, Bridgewater Drive and Progress Road throttle flows along this corridor. Any additional traffic on this corridor will now just add to the length of the queuing and impact on the downstream junctions. This will cause right turning and entry blocking obstructions and spread congestion to feeder roads. The only engineering solution to improve flows will be to provide grade separated junctions but due to boundary constraints this is not possible.

SERT although commendable for trying will be vying for the same junction/road space as private transport and inevitably this will further constrain flows for other vehicles. To provide a separate SERT lane alongside the current traffic corridors will be prohibitively expensive due to the need to divert statutory undertakers services (very expensive and a co-ordination nightmare). There will also be heavy objections from frontagers due to loss of verge/trees and moving the road closer to housing. Maybe this is why SERT has yet to be realised, 4 years of talking and still no progress.

Park and Ride is only viable when the journey to the Airport is itself congested, the road off A127 will be relatively free flowing. A more inviting site for P&R will be Progress Road area. By the time drivers have travelled along the congested A127 onto Nestuda Way their journey will almost be complete so what is the incentive to then jump on P&R? Passengers will have to transfer to a bus (with bags) for a journey of what will now be only a few minutes. Look at Sandon P&R, it is out of town on the edge of congestion with very good bus priority to Chelmsford. This a good model for P&R (it has just expanded and is still full). A Nestuda Way P&R does not make sense in this respect. A site near to the edge of A127 Congestion with good bus priority is the most inviting model for passengers (however providing bus priority along the A127 is problematic and expensive in Southend, see my SERT comments above)

The Councils need to take a global view of the A127 / A13 corridors as these will on top of the Airport proposals increase traffic on these 2 roads (the only high volume roads in Southend). Proposed expansion of communities at Great Wakering, Shoebury and Thorpe Bay Golf course plus Garons, Garrison, Shoebury Park (adj to ASDA) and the new planning approach to provide denser developments in town is concentrating more people movements in the Southend/Rochford area. A high percentage of these new residents will want to move through the A13 / A127 corridor.

Our main corridors will only get worse. We need to get people out of private cars and into public transport (or work locally) BUT all these issues are interrelated and should be considered as a WHOLE and not as a wish list of headline grabbing schemes. Not easy and will need strong decisions from our Councils.

With regards to the movement of people (and goods) - the isolated, ring fenced, wish list approach being taken to Airport expansion will only add to the towns growing transport problems. This is what will stifle the much coveted growth in the end if not deal with.