The University of Oxford has sparked outcry after felling nearly 100 trees in local villages without warning which residents have relied upon as a sound barrier from A34 traffic.
OVER the past month many Wallington residents have contacted me and the In Touch team with their comments and concerns about the lack of sound barriers planned by Highways England for the Wallington area along the new smart motorway. Understandably residents have been worried that Wallington is currently set to miss out on sound barriers that other parts of Fareham are going to benefit from. Wallington village is very close to the motorway and noise levels have, as traffic has steadily increased over the years, become loud and irritating, especially in the north part of Wallington. I have written three times to Highways England, initially in the hope that they’d simply missed Wallington off their installation plans, but since it became clear they do not intend to install sound barriers at all, my efforts have been focused on getting them to reconsider.