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During the 8 week engagement period starting on the 18 September, there will be a number of different ways for you to tell us your views on the Active Travel scheme from New Inn Lane to York Road, along the London Road (A3100), including Boxgrove Roundabout.

The 4 drop-in sessions will be held locally, at the following venues:

Your views are important to us, and your input would be greatly appreciated.

Following on from the stakeholder group meeting held on the 26 July, we are now in the summer holiday period. During this time the development of the full engagement questionnaire based on the themes and prioritisation developed by the Stakeholder group will be finalised.

Our engagement with the whole community will begin in September when everyone who wants to tell us their views on the Active Travel scheme from New Inn Lane to York Road along the A3100, including Boxgrove Roundabout is able to do so, by a variety of methods.

During this 8 week period, information about the scheme will be available via a number of outlets. These include a survey via an interactive website, letters to all households and a series of drop in sessions at local locations within communities.

We will advise dates, times and locations for the drop in sessions nearer the start of the engagement period.

We wish to reiterate again that we are no longer planning a 5 month road closure, instead we do not propose any road closures or traffic lights along the London Road during the day. There will be some night time closures, whilst still allowing access for residents. Further detail will be available as part of the engagement.

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.

You said, we did - and what we still plan to do to involve residents

Following the public meeting in January, where the council pledged to undertake further public engagement and involvement, we have;

Our plans for the future include:

The next stakeholder group meeting will be held on Wednesday 21 June 2023. We are working with the group to help advise us on the best way to engage with the community.

The timeline of our public/stakeholder engagement plan has been amended slightly to allow time for the stakeholders to co-produce an engagement plan and to consider the revised design and proposed delivery. Dates have been amended in the table below.

Further to the first stakeholder group meeting held on the 29 March, we will be working with the group to reset the engagement with the community to ensure that everyone that wishes to tell us their views is able to. We will be publishing further details about the work of the stakeholder group and the timeline for community engagement in due course.

Following careful consideration, the Council has decided to extend the consultation on the Burpham scheme to a consultation on the Council's proposals for the full active travel corridor for this area, of which the Burpham scheme is the first of three phases. This reflects the concern that a number of residents have raised about wanting to understand how the Burpham scheme fits into the later phases of this programme, including the proposed Boxgrove Roundabout scheme and the scheme from Boxgrove roundabout to York Road.

We plan to launch this consultation in the early May running for approximately 8 weeks.

In order to shape this consultation, we have previously committed to forming a stakeholder group who represent the community to make sure that we are reaching as much of the community as possible and in a way that residents can engage with effectively. The stakeholder group will consist of key representatives from the community including schools, businesses, local members and others who can offer views on "how" we engage with a diverse community.

They do not replace public consultation, which will allow and invite all members of the community to give their views, but rather they will be asked to advise on best methods to reach the wider public at relevant points in time for any scheme, for example use of drop in sessions, print or digital communications or one to one conversations. The stakeholder group will help us to bring together those that can give us a view from people with protected characteristics, democratically elected representatives, businesses, residents associations, schools, transport operators, Guildford Borough Council and cycling groups who are best placed to represent the community.

Below is a table outlining the timeframe of our Public/Stakeholder engagement plan:

We have removed the previous plans as we are working on new designs and traffic management options. Once this has been completed the webpage will be updated.

The consultation and the results are now available to view. Please find this information under the files available to download page.

We are working with the Consultation Institute to map key stakeholders and the broader engagement with residents. We will ensure that all interested communities are able to share their views on the proposed scheme and will share our plans shortly

On Thursday 5 January, we had the opportunity to listen to residents' concerns about the London Road, Burpham, Active Travel Scheme. We also heard the views of those who are in favour.

We plan to further engage with residents and are working with the Consultation Institute to build a robust model for how to do this now and in the future.

We will look at design options as well as the construction and delivery of the scheme.

We are building a list of stakeholders to help us shape the consultation. This will help us consider options in a more collaborative way. The list includes the London Road Action Group, residents' associations, disabled groups, business representatives, other community groups as well as cycling groups such as G Bug to ensure we hear from all aspects of the community. We will be consulting with Local Councillors and Guildford Borough Council too. The first meeting will take place before the end of February.

We are planning drop-in sessions and other engagement with residents in March/April.

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