Open North Street, Midhurst

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#401

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Mandy Mount (Midhurst, 2023-04-25)

#402

This high street is essential to Midhurst

Amber HTTYH Horse sanctuary (Brighton, 2023-04-25)

#403

The detours are killing the 5own, the villages and wrecking cars!

Colleen Homan (Trotton, 2023-04-25)

#404

I can’t get home in the evenints

Sinjon Embleton (Chichester, 2023-04-25)

#411

I am signing because I can see our lovely town dying in front of our eyes. Just knock down what is left of the Angel. If you preserve there will be no town left to preserve it for.

Nicky Tollworthy (midhurst, 2023-04-25)

#412

We need this road open as soon as possible. The current situation means our regular customers in the north and east of Midhurst are reluctant to come into Midhurst. The road is a thoroughfare for all the towns and cities surrounding Midhurst and any reason to avoid the area is already meaning potential customers are avoiding the town

Richard Mullins (Fareham, 2023-04-25)

#413

I often visit Midhurst on business and it is just not acceptable to have the high street closed for so long!

Jane Cooper (Tarragona, 2023-04-25)

#414

I am a shop owner in Midhurst Red Lion Street. Our business is suffering as a consequence of the road closure.

Silvia Allen (Midhurst, 2023-04-25)

#415

Please just get on with it, open North Street and build something that moves Midhurst forwards.This situation is so damaging.

Aaron Stewart (Hawkley, 2023-04-25)

#418

I would like the town open asap to help locals and businesses.

Linda Gunter (Midhurst, 2023-04-25)

#420

The businesses need it and so do I to get to the doctors

David Selwood (MIDHURST, 2023-04-25)

#423

Resident

Sarah Grimwood (Midhurst, 2023-04-25)

#425

My brother and sister- in-law live in Angel Yard. Enough said!

Jane Vermeiren (Bognor Regis, 2023-04-25)

#427

I wish to be able to access the shops with my vehicle to collect the items that I have bought and sold, this is damaging to the businesses that operate on the street. If you loose them then you will loose a large income plus the heart and soul of the community.

Iain Hughson (Poole, 2023-04-25)

#428

It causing chaos especially for people going to work

Steve cobbold (886576, 2023-04-25)

#432

This situation must not be allowed to continue: there's no obvious action, weeks after the fire. Lanes around Midhurst are pothole ridden and unsafe, with traffic speeding, and even a large car transporter spotted in Hollist Lane. The town centre is a ghost town.
Gillian Keegan has been prominent by her absence.

Jean Bate (Midhurst, 2023-04-25)

#434

Open the road to stop local businesses failing.

Diggy Rodber (Lurgashall, 2023-04-25)

#435

Please open North street and let the people of Midhurst and all the surrounding villages resume normal life

Esther Hunt (Petworth, 2023-04-25)

#437

North street NEEDS to reopen to save our town. It is dying in front of our eyes and will NOT survive much longer without the Main Street reopening .

Lydia Smith (Parrish) (Midhurst, 2023-04-25)

#439

I’m local and want to see Midhurst thrive. This is currently unsustainable for local people and businesses

NICHOLAS LINES (Petersfield, 2023-04-25)

#442

Im local and cant bare to see the inefficiency of the council yet again killing local businesses like they did in PULBOROUGH disgraceful not to have sorted it immediately

Vanessa Taylor (NR PULBOROUGH, 2023-04-25)

#447

I'm a small business and yes really affecting how customers can get to my workshop

Kelly Jones (petworth, 2023-04-25)

#448

All efforts need to be made to open the road.

Delyth Beaton (Rogate, 2023-04-25)

#449

I know a business owner directly affected by this

Gillian Ivory (Courtenay, 2023-04-25)

#451

We should see this as an opportunity to create something new and fabulous. Businesses are struggling already with the rising costs of absolutely everything and the roads in place as diversions are not suitable at all for the amount and size of traffic needing to use them. Building something new allows potential for so much more efficient use of the space and could add a modern twist to a town that desperately needs a boost.

Lucy Wall-Palmer (Midhurst, 2023-04-25)

#452

We need to save the heart of Midhurst and get the businesses back on track. M J Collins

Margaret Collins (Upwaltham, 2023-04-25)

#458

Open Midhurst!!

Judith Wraight (Petersfield, 2023-04-25)

#459

I live in Elsted and work near the GP surgery at a charity at the other end of town. My choice now is to risk my car down the narrow lanes detours, costing more in time and money or paying each day at the grange and walking backwards and forwards with my laptop and work bag. It’s becoming a bit of a joke now with no end date in sight.

Clare Cartwright (Midhurst, 2023-04-25)

#460

I'm a local dog walker, These useless diversions are adding hours to my working days.
Get on with it

Philip Laurent (Easebourne, 2023-04-25)

#461

I’m sick of having to drive an extra 8 miles miles up country lanes. Not made for such traffic........just to get to work !!!
When the Blitz hit London in the 2nd world war....the streets were cleared ASAP.....no way were they left Un passable. For 6+ weeks !! It’s shameful and destroying local businesses !!!

Judie Barrington-Bird (Midhurst, 2023-04-25)

#463

It's taken far too long to re-open the road.

Stephen Sargent (PETERSFIELD, 2023-04-25)

#464

We need the A272 to be reopened asap so that the Midhurst businesses can start to
recover!!

Sally Matson (Fernhurst, 2023-04-25)

#465

I am a resident of Hollist Lane and am finding the volume of traffic awful not to mention all the cars coming up the Lane the wrong way, ignoring the no entry signs. Please re open North Street asap so everyone can get on with their day to day lives.

Sophie Crawford (Midhurst, 2023-04-25)

#467

I have a shop in West Street and have lost 95 per cent of my business. I won’t last many weeks more!!!!

Caroline Bloomfield (Midhurst, 2023-04-25)

#468

I poured my heart & soul in to one of the businesses being profoundly effected by this tragedy & to watch it disappear after surviving the recession & then countless covid lockdowns would be devastating. The fire was tragic for so many & I feel for the owners, employees & residents of those buildings directly effected. But surely it will be a much worse scenario to re-open a restored beautiful hotel to a desolate town with no businesses left. Please re-open the road to save our wonderful town & those that rely on it to support their businesses, homes & families ♡

Sarah Morley (Haslemere, 2023-04-25)

#469

It’s destroying this beautiful town, enough now, sort it out without delay.

Angela Tysoe (Midhurst, 2023-04-25)

#470

The road closure severely affects our family life such as making school runs.

Stephen Prior (Midhurst, 2023-04-25)

#471

Our Midhurst shops and businesses need North Street to be open in order to survive.
We all need these shops and businesses.

F Andrew (Midhurst, 2023-04-25)

#473

I used to live in the Midhurst area and have relatives there. It is causing terrible disruption to have the main road closed to say nothing of the damage to small local businesses who were just beginning to recover post-COVID. They need the road to open asap.

Nicky Ticehurst (Worthing, 2023-04-26)

#474

It is time that the various agencies stopped prevaricating and got the necessary work done to be able to make it safe to open the road and save our town - more important than charred remains

Judi Lion (Midhurst, 2023-04-26)

#475

I care about the life of Midhurst as a town: this needs viable businesses at its centre providing a livelihood for many and adding to its appeal as a place to visit.

Angus McAllister (Petersfield, 2023-04-26)

#476

Far too many agencies are involved in the process to re-open the road. Demolish the two chimneys. Shore up the brick wall leading to the homes behind the Angel. Demolish the facade. It is iconic and was lovely to look at, but it is not 400 years old, and it can be replicated at a later date. Do it NOW and get the road opened.

Tina Litchfield (Midhurst, 2023-04-26)

#478

Our local businesses are suffering and need to have as much custom as possible especially as they are just recovering after the pandemic. Our lane is being used as a Midhurst 'by-pass' and is full of terrible potholes. The facade of the Angel is not original and so can be pulled down. It is shameful that those who are paid to deal with this are doing nothing and there is never any update as to when the road will re-open. It has now been six weeks since the fire happened.

Gillian Moss (MIDHURST, 2023-04-26)

#479

I am appalled at the lack of decision making over what to do to bring Midhurst town back to some kind of normality. It seems to me that there is too much talking and blowing of hot air and not enough action going on. Local businesses are suffering, local residents are suffering and the roads are in a terrible state. Something has to be done now!

Deborah Sullivani (Midhurst West Sussex, 2023-04-26)

#480

The appalling lack of organisation and ability to make a decision where there is enormous disruption to all local businesses, residents and visitors.

Chris Sullivan (West Lavington, Midhurst,West Sussex, 2023-04-26)

#482

A272 (A286) is an important road and should not be closed for months.

Michael Cotgrove (Lewes, 2023-04-26)

#483

I am a resident of Midhurst and dont want it to be a dead town full of charity shops

sarah cole (Midhurst, 2023-04-26)

#484

Im signing because of the severe lack of trade to my business and all the other business in the town as we now have very little foot fall

Anthony Barron (Midhurst, 2023-04-26)

#485

The damaged facade of The Angel is not worthy of saving. It is if no historic value as it stands. It should be demolished immediately. The businesses in Midhurst must be supported and opening the high street as soon as possible is crucial

Penelope Olsen (Lodsworth, 2023-04-26)

#486

A decision needs to be made on the status of the building and action need to be taken ASAP - there will not be a town left soon and the surrounding roads are a complete nightmare but in the state of the roads and the amount of traffic - the polo lorries are just starting to arrive. This situation needs to be resolved NOW.

Bridget Adler (Midhurst, 2023-04-26)

#487

I live there

Christopher Dumas (Midhurst, 2023-04-26)

#491

I agree with the points made.
The delay for any work commencing is unacceptable and the ongoing impacts with this uncertain plan and time frame is debilitating for the businesses, residents and local environment directly impacted by road diversions

Clare Whatley-Holmes (Midhurst, 2023-04-26)

#495

I have had enough of traveling to and from work that takes 1hr 15 now from Petworth to Steep Marsh . Not only that it’s the poor people trying to run their business in the High St . It’s killing Midhurst . Please please get it sorted for everyone’s sanity.

Claire Finch (Petworth, 2023-04-26)

#496

It’s creating complete break down in a community. And why for so long??

Jo Moorcroft (Chichester, 2023-04-26)

#498

As a resident needing to travel in and out of Midhurst every day for school, for work, for leisure my family’s life has been changed for the worst. We were already time poor and now we have the added burden of burst tyres to bear. Enough is enough.

Katy Mitchell (Midhurst, 2023-04-26)

#502

The heart of our town is more important than this one compromised facade.

In this situation, better a beautiful recreation than the loss of independent traders that make our town a community, PLEASE, see sense - KNOCK IT DOWN

Trevor Baker (Midhurst, 2023-04-26)

#503

The incompetence of the government agencies, delays in taking action and total lack of consideration for the community or businesses.

Scott Mckelvie (Midhurst, 2023-04-26)

#508

The traffic is being redirected along our lanes

Chris Weeks (Heyshott, 2023-04-26)

#509

Peoples lives and business‘s are being destroyed by the road closure ! The Angel Inn is not worth saving .Just knock it down and lets get back to work.

PETER BARNETT (Heyshott, 2023-04-26)

#510

The people and businesses directly affected by the closure must surely be a much higher priority than a building and they deserve considerable urgent support.

Andrew Ferrier (Midhurst, 2023-04-26)

#513

It is now some 6 weeks since the fire and Midhurst is still shut compromising all the local businesses and causing chaos on all the surrounding roads.
It has taken the various local authorities and powers that be 6 weeks to intervene and cause something to happen.
KNOCK IT DOWN AND OPEN THE TOWN.

jeremy samuels (Heyshott, 2023-04-26)

#515

I live in a south ambersham on a diversion and these roads now have become dangerous - they are too small and narrow for volume of traffic and it is hugely disruptive and unsafe.

Hannah Clough (Midhurst, 2023-04-26)

#521

The disruption to the residents and businesses of the town is of far greater importance than the preservation of what was at best a moderately nice building. Please knock it down ASAP. It should be replaced with something in keeping with the town's character but this is really of secondary importance to opening the road.

Richard Ivison (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#522

I live on rumbolds hill (south side of midhurst) and work on other side :(
It is a joke trying to negotiate roads.....also my business is 80% down but not situated on roads that will get compensation!!

Pippa Gransden-Chappell (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#527

I live on the north side of the town and cannot access anywhere south of the town by car without a +30 minute diversion either via Petworth or Haslemere. wasting fuel and time ... not to mention the poor traders who I know are suffering and barely able to stay open at all. Just knock down the Angel Inn wall and let us get on with our lives.

C Taylor (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#528

Midhurst is dying because no one appears to be able to make a decision! We are talking about people’s livelihoods, massive detours, unsafe roads. Someone please make a decision to either shore the Angel up or demolish it and sort out who is liable after!

Lesley Rushton (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#529

A major road closed for six weeks is just not on. Open the road now. Paper and politics will not save the towns traders.

Graham Tutt (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#530

I live south of Midhurst and have to go to Fernhurst to the north every day. I have to make a massive detour through narrow country lanes where potholes are rife. It’s dangerous because of all the traffic trying to find ways around Midhurst, and has cost me £60 so far to repair pot hole damage to my car.

Beverley Wadge (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#532

Midhurst is a thriving market town which is home to many independent businesses. With the road shut the heart of the town is gone. There is no buzz, no atmosphere, and no customers. There has been plenty of time for plans to be out in place yet nothing has been visibly done. Paperwork and red tape prevents a solution being found quickly but it is businesses and residents that bear the brunt of this. Not only those businesses in Midhurst but the local farmers who cannot pass through town. The deliveries being diverted. The school journeys doubling in length. The red tape needs to be cut and common sense must prevail.

Gabriella Pink (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#533

Midhurst needs to open to save its businesses and community .

Caroline Hill (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#534

I believe the livelihoods of the local shopkeepers and businesses is more important than a couple of old walls.

Jennifer Curry (MIDHURST, 2023-04-27)

#535

I have a business in the surrounding area that is being negatively impacted by the road closure.

Jemma Hunt (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#536

Us in Bourne Way can't get to the GP or Vet except driving 15 miles.
For people in the North end can't reach the Grange Community centre, library or gym and exercise classes by car, except via a 15 mile drive.
The town is going to die.

Karen Irwin (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#541

Without access it’s impacting business and destroying the surrounding roads and infrastructure.

Michelle Lyons (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#542

The businesses in town are suffering and desperate, the journeys to get (north and south ) are causing terrible damage to roads unsuited to the traffic involved and taking time, causing stress and increased expense due to long detours.
The Angel building may be listed but to let the town die for this reason is not acceptable. It could be rebuilt in a new but similar style and colour. Please OPEN NORTH STREET to traffic ASAP and save the town
Stephanie Goring

Stephanie Goring (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#543

I dont want beaurocracy to kill Midhurst

Caroline Douglas (Stedham Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#545

Of the severe disruption to business in the town and also to the damage being done to the surrounding roads by traffic bypassing the town. The potholes down bed lane and mill lane are dangerous. The facade can be replicated and the behind can be rebuilt. Not everything can be saved but by knocking it down now maybe Midhurs can be?

Giles Halliwell (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#551

The future of midhurst should be decided by residents, consumers and shop owners, not civil servants.

Alex Desbarres (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#552

This road closure is impacting on every single person that lives in Midhurst or has to travel through Midhurst. The lanes around the town are just not suitable for the volume of traffic having to use them at the moment. Some People are not respecting the road closed signs adding to the chaos. Time to get the road open !

Bridget James (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#556

The town and its residents are suffering economically , and find it hard to carry on with their day to day lives

Steven Emerton (Brighton, 2023-04-27)

#557

My friend living in Midhurst is greatly inconvenienced by the closure

Lynda Sayer (Chichester, 2023-04-27)

#558

I’m a business owner in West Street, Midhurst. My turnover is down 60% on this time last year. What remains of The Angel Hotel isn’t worth saving if it contributes to to the failure of multiple viable businesses. People’s livelihoods are more important that bricks and mortar.

Natasha Notley (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#560

I work in one of the charity shops in Midhurst and our takings and donations have taken a massive hit

Mary-ann Wood (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#562

I live in Midhurst and I have two businesses in Midhurst- but not for much longer if this carries on much longer.

Karin Dunbar (Midhurst, 2023-04-27)

#563

This is impacting people and is increasing a risk to life - this needs sorting asap it’s disgraceful no one in authority has sorted this sooner

Katherine Steele (Midhurst, 2023-04-28)

#564

It is unacceptable to have the main thoroughfare of a town blocked off for over a month. This has caused small back country roads to be used causing damage to the banks, flora and fauna are disturbed

Pom Oliver (West Dean, 2023-04-28)

#567

One of the key hindrances has been that the listing of the building makes it illegal to knock it down. This listing can be removed. Email MP Lucy Frazer enquiries@dcms.gov.uk to urgently remove the listing.

Philippa McCullough (Midhurst, 2023-04-28)

#568

Midhurst North Street is the only through road North-South for traffic. All other roads are single lane with passing places. It is vital for businesses, the community and function of the town. This long delay is totally unacceptable. The Angel should have been made safe immediately after the fire.

June Barnard (Midhurst, 2023-04-28)

#570

Midhurst businesses and community are more important than this long delay to make an almost completely fire destroyed building safe for North Street to reopen.

Peter Barnard (MIDHURST, 2023-04-28)

#572

We need quicker action to re-open North Street to help save the remaining business who are suffering dreadfully - especially after Covid. I hope there business rates for the period will be refunded.

Susan Taylor (Midhurst, 2023-04-28)

#573

Midhurst needs to come back to life. This road closure is destroying livelihoods

Stephen Hotham (Ascot, 2023-04-28)

#575

I am signing this as a concerned local resident whose movements have been seriously disrupted by the paucity of safe and acceptable routes to get around Midhurst.

Richard Hunt (Midhurst, 2023-04-28)

#578

The quango at SDNP and CDC are incapable of decision making and are placing phoney legalities in the way of doing what is necessary. The fetishised preservation of an insignificant redundant and uneconomic hotel is being put before the needs of the whole community.
This is incompetent.

Michael Fletcher (Lodsworth, 2023-04-28)

#580

I grew up in Midhurst and visit friends there often. The life has gone out of the town and small businesses there are losing a fortune. This is a main A road that is closed and cars are using and clogging up all the country lanes that surround Midhurst to try to bypass it.

Penelope Lane (London, 2023-04-28)

#581

I lived in Midhurst for many years and always appreciated its location to easy access to Goodwood, cowdray Park , the Downs and many other destinations and places if interest
Although The Angel was obviously a major part of the town, one must accept it’s no longer there and the importance of the town, the shops and community must continue each and every day.
Surely at least one lane can open and get things moving. A safe an effective barrier in front of the buildings can get the town back to being it’s vibrant, charming place and allow the towns people to regain their livelihood.

Bridget Bothwell (Fort Collins, 2023-04-28)

#583

This is a lovely town that I grew up I. And I would hate to see it die because of this.

Alice Lane (Stourbridge, 2023-04-28)

#584

Midhurst is a nightmare for people from Petersfield wanting a Covid booster.

Alison Gauld (Petersfield, 2023-04-28)

#585

I use the shops in the high st

Joanna Von schenk (Chichester, 2023-04-28)

#586

The high street needs to reopen. The frontage is unviable, it needs to come down and the high street opened again

Robert Newton (Doncaster, 2023-04-28)

#587

I have an elderly father who needs access to the health centre and has to drive a massive detour around to get to it, trying to avoid the mayhem of country lanes at his age of 88.
I also feel for the local businesses who surely cannot continue to trade like this.

Sally Cartwright (Liphook, 2023-04-28)

#589

The incompetence of Midhurst Town Council, Chichester District Council and South Downs Planning Authority has resulted in no action being taken to reopen North Street which is killing business in the town and causing significant inconvenience to residents. Midhurst is dying.

Helen Rostill (Midhurst, 2023-04-29)

#590

It is important to make progress quickly. Midhurst and local communities are suffering. Local businesses is suffering. The wider community and business are suffering as peoples give the area a wide detour due to the closed main road. There are a number of interest to consider, however 6 weeks to achieve very little is not acceptable. Many interested groups with their own remit and no leadership is not the way to respond to a disaster. It is a recipe to prolong the negative impact. There are a number of Emergency Powers that should be used to resolve the immediate issue of the road closure. Elected leaders need to take responsibility and take action. All problems are difficult if you do not respond quickly. The initial disaster has past and you are creating new disasters by inaction. The time to decide has past the time to take action was yesterday, tomorrow is a wasted opportunity with costs.

Christopher Hutchings (Midhurst, 2023-04-29)

#593

I am signing because something needs to be done as soon as possible! Someone needs to take some leadership here to open up the town again and move forward!

jose fonseca (Easeborne, 2023-04-29)

#594

I want the road through midhurst to open before the effects on local businesses are irrevocable.

Gabriella Shaw (Midhurst, 2023-04-29)

#596

To get North Street opened. I would also like the people who are causing the delay, named and shamed.

Andy Paterson (Graffham, 2023-04-29)

#598

The relevant authorities have been inept. This should have been done and dusted by now.

Nigel Curry (Midhurst, 2023-04-29)

#599

I live in Midhurst and we desperately need our shops to survive.

Philip Davidson (Midhurst, 2023-04-29)

#600

The complete road closure is presumably to protect people from any falling debris or collapse of the building structure or facade onto the pavement or highway.
Shoring up of the facade with immediate effect would probably not need to extend beyond the edge of pavement or over one lane of the road as a maximum. Such precaution could not be permitted to halt business within the City of London.
There is no reason to completely close the road which would thus enable Midhurst and traffic to function at a reduced scale, even if controlled by one way traffic lights.
These are economically difficult times and livelihoods are becoming unsustainable.
Leadership and decision making is required from the authorities: the Task Force committee set up to deal with the matter should, for example, call in the Royal Engineers/military and deal with this crisis.
This is not business as usual - time to act or be prepared for mounting social unrest and illegal action.
Successful production of the Covid vaccine was fast tracked by thinking outside the box - why not apply this to the situation in Midhurst?

Gary Taylor (Midhurst, 2023-04-30)