Kings Barton Residents Association
What we do
BUILDING OUR COMMUNITY
With more than 1,000 residents, and with the community continuing to grow, our goal is to help build and maintain a sense of community for everyone.
We do this by organising social events that bring the community closer together.
SUPPORTING RESIDENTS
We are committed to improving conditions for all residents. We work in partnership with CALA throughout the development programme, as well as with local authorities and housing associations.
These partnerships allow us to advocate for the local community and work directly with the people we serve.
REPRESENTING YOUR VIEWS
KBRA represents and promotes the interests of residents living in our area.
Latest developments - Andover Road
The plan to redirect traffic from the B3420 Andover Road in Winchester along Winchester Avenue through Kings Barton:
It is likely and foreseeable that the decision to divert traffic from the B3420 Andover Road through the Kings Barton estate will lead to more accidents and casualties, as well as other disadvantages. We therefore question whether this decision is rational and reasonable.
Our key points:
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Winchester Avenue has a high concentration of social, affordable and shared-ownership terraced housing, as well as a primary school, community centre and many side roads. It is a low-capacity road and is unsuitable for carrying the diverted traffic. The likely consequences for Kings Barton residents include:
Road casualties - Traffic accidents are likely to increase.
Community severance - The volume of traffic along Winchester Avenue will make it harder to cross presenting a physical and psychological ‘barrier’ to movement and separating residents from one another and from children’s play parks. The groundbreaking work on community traffic severance was by Donald Appleyard and Mark Lintell and published 55 years ago: https://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrr/1971/356/356-008.pdf
Appleyard and Lintell compared the experience of residents living alongside roads carrying different levels of traffic, including situations similar to that planned for Kings Barton. Among the findings, residents on a quiet street (with 2,000 vehicles per day) had three times as many friends and twice as many acquaintances locally as those on a heavily trafficked street (16,000 vehicles per day). It is reported that on the busy road social interaction practically ceased and that residents retreated indoors. Residents on the busy road also experienced the negative effects of noise, stress and pollution.
The aim must be to stop Kings Barton becoming two separate communities, one either side of Winchester Avenue, with touching points only at the supermarket, the community spaces, the playgrounds and for those meeting at the school gate.
Noise and Air Pollution and Carbon Emissions - These are likely to increase dramatically because of traffic queuing around the neighbourhood centre, access roads and pedestrian crossings.
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Harestock and Weeke where residents will suffer additional traffic on their residential roads such as Harestock Road, Priors Dean Road and Bereweeke Avenue, and
Headbourne Worthy and Kings Worthy where residents will suffer additional traffic on Springvale Road, Worthy Road, Wellhouse Lane and Down Farm Lane.
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More generally, all Winchester residents will suffer from delays in reaching the A34 for travel northwards and residents of Littleton, South Wonston and Sutton Scotney will suffer from delays travelling to the city centre with additional negative consequences for emergency services.
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