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New-look traffic plan unveiled to public
2:13pm Wednesday 21st May 2008
THE plans to enhance the traffic in and around Overton were unveiled to the public at the annual parish meeting.
There have been 11 key areas which it is hoped will assist pedestrians in the growing village.
The money for the plans will be funded by the S106 - funds given to the village by the developers at Foxdown and Overton Hill.
Speaking to the Andover Advertiser after the meeting Overton parish council chairman Alan Whitney said: "We seem to be bedevilled by a medieval street plan. If we want to go to the school we have got to cross the main road, if we want to go to the church we have got to cross a main road.
"We have never had a proper crossing before.
"This is not the end of the plans, we will have more consultations with the parishioners."
Mr Whitney said a lot of the proposals came about courtesy of the feedback from the have your say' questionnaire which was distributed among the parishioners. The village is also one selected for the village 30 plan, in which the council is aiming to extend the 30mph zones out of the village.
The plans, which are due to be displayed at Overton library, include the previously reported pedestrian phase at the traffic lights in the town centre, a series of informal road crossings and pedestrian improvements on Station Road.
Work is anticipated to be implemented in phases, commencing towards the end of summer or autumn.
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