Issue details

To consider and approve the Council’s response to Hampshire County Council’s consultation on Highway Proposals for Newgate Lane and Peel Common, Fareham and Western Access to Gosport.

This report is Fareham Borough Council’s response to the Hampshire County Council’s proposals to improve Newgate Lane and the Western Access to Gosport including a Stubbington Bypass, which is currently undergoing public consultation.

This report recommends that a response that supports, in principle, proposals to improve the Western Access to Gosport including a Stubbington Bypass, subject to further technical and environmental assessments, and further consultation with the public and Borough on these findings and detailed proposals. 

Fareham Borough Council supports the proposed improvements to Peel Common Roundabout and Newgate Lane Northern Section, which have already secured funding and which need to be quickly expedited to support planned development at the Solent Enterprise Zone at Daedalus.

Fareham Borough Council is concerned about any potential delay in completing the routeing and design work for and subsequent implementation of a highway improvement scheme to the southern section of the Newgate Lane corridor, given the importance of early improvements to the entire length of the Newgate Lane corridor in enhancing access to the Solent Enterprise Zone at Daedalus.

Fareham Borough Council recommends that a decision on whether the proposals to improve Western Access to Gosport including Stubbington By-pass will affect the southern section of the Newgate Lane corridor, is regarded as a matter of priority by Hampshire County Council, so that a scheme can be designed and implemented at the earliest opportunity for this remaining part of the Newgate Lane corridor.