News on Burpham to Guildford Active Travel Scheme

We have continued to hold stakeholder group meetings in July with representatives from the community helping us shape our community engagement which we plan to start in early September running for 8 weeks.

Within the engagement period we will be providing information and a survey via an interactive website, we will be writing to all households in the affected areas and will be holding a series of drop in sessions within the affected communities showing our plans for the scheme, its potential benefits as well as our proposed short term traffic management, as we build the scheme.

We have shared our scheme plans with the stakeholder group and our traffic management plans to understand the best way to share these with the local communities.

We wish to reiterate that we are no longer planning a 5 month road closureand intend to carry out most of the works at night, ensuring that traffic flows freely without road closure or traffic lights as a key principle.

We are also continuing to meet with groups identified through our Equalities Impact Assessment including the local school heads network to understand best ways to involve children and young people in the design and delivery of the scheme and are planning a session with sixth form students from Guildford High and George Abbot schools to understand the lived experience of children and young people moving around the community.

We have held discussions with the Surrey Collation of Disabled people as well as Surrey Network of older people to gain their views on the scheme to understand their lived experiences. We have similar plans to engage with Carers groups.

We also plan to engage with local businesses with premises located along the corridor.

We have asked stakeholders to help us to develop the questions which will be central to the public engagement process starting in September and we will have a further Stakeholder Reference Group in July dedicated to designing the engagement process.

The next stakeholder group meeting will be held on Wednesday 26 July 2023.