Cirencester Park access road

I've just had a look and the plans seem a bit vague. No mention of who was consulted so there is no opinions from the club, cricket or tennis club. There is no dimensions on the road layout but from the screenshot they've obviously took caravans into consideration. You can see the road with a caravan being towed on the right. If there's any sort of scale then you wouldn't even want to meet a pedestrian It beggars belief that planners could allow this. The new stretch of road in over 200 metres long and forward vision in either direction must be nil so a meet situation doesn't bear thinking  about. Given that the speed limit is 10mph it would take you around 40 seconds to clear that new section.

I've never submitted a photo before so I hope this works

A long car or a short caravan.🤔

This is the planning document rather interestingly it contains the following statement!!! 

"The Tennis and Cricket club were pleased with the design of the road and the emphasis upon safety but wanted some
passing spaces so that caravans did not need to reverse. The Caravan Club did not respond to invitations to this
consultation"

The Estates main contention seems to be that the old road was destroyed by thoughtless 4X4 owners! I am not quite sure what the status is of the Club site but I assume it is on a lease. Clearly the Estate did not consider/really understand the requirements of an access road to a caravan site and from some of the language didn't seem much to care. The boulders were mentioned in the planning document and are clearly in place to prevent erosion of the edges of the road. Just a note, also included in the, text that use of the road is at the risk of the user!!!

David

Obviously the CC were not interested in what width the road was going to be. Perhaps the site's lease is soon due to run out ?

Clicked on DK's link to the planning document. Although it goes to the website, it says the document is not available for viewing at this time.🤔 Most strange.

Nellie

I doubt the lease is up soon as they only recently added a load of serviced pitches. They don't usually do any upgrades if they are not sure of the lease? 

David

Steve not sure what has happened to the link (it must be an internal link rather than a public one?)but if you go to the Planning Portal for the Cotswolds and then search for Cirencester Park it should bring up the case.

David

Thanks, will give that a go.

If it's too dangerous to reverse a caravan or large Motorhome without the sure knowledge that it is safe to do so, without clouting a rock, then a lot of other users are going to be doing the reversing. Me I would just park up and wait until they move. Poorly designed  road, I see many raised tempers in my crystal ball.