Colts Hill link A228

A proposal to provide a bypass to Colts Hill has been a long held aspiration as part of the progressive improvement of the A228. An outline design for the scheme was approved by the County Council following public consultation.
In progressing the scheme, geotechnical and hydrological work has been carried out to test the technical feasibility of the scheme because of the complicated earthworks, in places involving side-long ground and complex underground water tables. This investigation and discussions with the Environment Agency suggest that the effect on the aquifer is problematic and not realistically capable of mitigation. Therefore, it seems certain that the vertical alignment would need to be raised to reduce or overcome the problem. This would require reviewing the outline design and further consultation.

Although a priority in the County Council's Local Transport Plan the scheme was not accepted for funding in the Regional Funding Allocation (RFA) for 2006-2011 and it is also not in the indicative list of schemes that might be funded in the remaining RFA years of 2009/10 - 2015/16.

Current Situation

No further work is being done on the scheme other than providing input required to support any further submission to SEERA.