Concerns about the redevelopment of Howards Yard are still being voiced after Brenchley Civil Engineering organised an open day for residents to visit.
As already reported the company carries out highway maintenance across Hampshire and West Sussex and are looking for a suitable plot to be used as a storage depot and recycling plant. Following initial appeals against the development plans were scaled down but concerns are still high.
The chairman of Hayling Island Community Network Terry Worrall said: We are talking about a minimum of 18 lorries on and 18 lorries off. Once they have planning permission will they then retrospectively increase the number of lorries coming on to the site? The residents association and community board have long been asking for an infrastructure review which is not forthcoming.
If Hayling was to be rebuilt today there would be a much more substantial road network on the island. To suddenly increase the load on the bridge and the roads we would consider it to be dangerous.
In answer to residents Paul Marples who co owns Brenchley said: We have got a lot of concerned residents because of how it was portrayed in our original plans.We are not a concrete plant we are a civil engineering company that will be recycling some of our own goods. It is down to highway engineers to work out if roads could cope.
This was a car recycling centre before that produced a lot of traffic on its own. We have cut the size of the yard down by half by selling it to Hayling Yacht Club.
