Removal of two trees-Langney Road, Eastbourne

Overview

This consultation will be open from Friday 28th March and close on Friday 25th April. 

As a part of the Eastbourne Town Centre pedestrian upgrade works, minor improvements will be carried out along Langney Road to convert this to two-way from the current one-way traffic flow (northbound). Vehicles up to 7.5 tonnes only will be permitted to access Langney Road from the Susans Road junction but in order to facilitate this, it is necessary to provide some form of turning facility.

The only area where a turning facility can be provided is outside of Dominos Pizza and 7ply but a small amount of road widening will be required to achieve this.

The drawing below shows the space required to turn a 7.17m vehicle in one manoeuvre on full lock.

There is no scope to carry out any widening on the western side of the road due to the proximity of the Highway Boundary. The only option available, therefore, is to widen the road on the eastern side which, in turn, will require the removal of the two existing trees.

Image below shows the two trees that require removal. 

Options to provide a turning area that did not impact on the trees were considered during the design process, including the provision of a turning area without any widening and re-positioning the turning area southwards into the pedestrianised area. From this it was determined that there was insufficient space available to safely turn a vehicle up to 7.5 tonnes without providing any widening. Options that positioned the turning area within the new precinct would impact on the next phase of the scheme and would also introduce additional conflict between turning vehicles and pedestrians.

3 new trees will be planted within the town centre as a part of the scheme. These will be supplemented with 6 planters that will be placed on the new surface.