April 2025
Newsletter #38 Published and can be found on the Newsletter Tab |
March 2025
J 9 AND 10 Funding Boost. Council leaders from Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tewkesbury Borough have agreed to allocate £13,763,280 from developments to help fund important transport schemes in Gloucestershire.
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January 2025
Newsletter #37 Published Newsletter Tab |
January 2025
TAAG has now received permission to share Cotswolds National Landscape (CNL) Board's feedback to the A46 M5 Engagement in late 2024.
It is noteworthy that CNL's suggestion of a revised Route B would be beneficial to both them and us, who border the A435.
The full detailed report can be found on our Reports Tab
Atkins confirmed timeline:
"A report on public engagement will be published in Spring 2025.
The programme for the next stage of scheme development, ‘GCC Option Selection and Shortlisting’ will take around 3 years to complete. This will consist of further option shortlisting from 6 to 2 or 3 options, followed by a more detailed appraisal of the remaining options.
If possible, the stage will be broken down into phases and we will share the outcome of the next round of option shortlisting prior to commencing more detailed analysis. We currently anticipate that this will take about 18 months to complete.
DfT advised that schemes originally being considered as part of the pipeline of schemes for potential inclusion in the third Road Investment Strategy (RIS3) between 2025 and 2030 will continue to be developed, but only for consideration for inclusion in RIS4 (beyond 2030).
The 2031 Open for Traffic date was based on RIS3 delivery, the 2034 Open to Traffic date is based on RIS4 delivery".
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December 2024
TAAG Newsletter #36 Published 01/12/24. Newsletter Tab |
November
30/11/2024 - TAAG Engagement Submission to GCC along with Gerald Kells Report added to Reports Tab
TAAG Newsletter #35 Published 22/11/24. Newsletter Tab
TAAG Engagement Submission is available for review and comments. Available on the Reports TAB. Feedback can be submitted by email admin@taagroup.co.uk
Gloucestershire County Council M5 J9 & A46 Transport Scheme
Public Engagement on Route Options to redirect the A46
Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) have recently published route options for changes to the A46 that will significantly affect our villages. 1 of the options (Option A) proposes bringing the A46 down the A435 from Teddington Hands roundabout to seven-bends, which will have a significant detrimental effect on us.
They are running a public engagement exercise which started on 7th October and runs until 2nd December.
Full details, including the route options, maps, consultation document, brochure etc. can be found on the GCC website.
https://haveyoursaygloucestershire.uk.engagementhq.com/junction-9
TAAG are focussing our efforts on the eastern section route options A and B which run from the Teddington Hands junction down to a new roundabout at the 7 bends junction, as these have a far greater impact on us than Options 1,2 and 3.
It has become abundantly clear from the completed residents’ questionnaires and TAAG’s drop-in event in the village hall, that the consensus of both Teddington & Alstone residents, is that Route A would have a far greater impact on our villages than Route B and that Route A is totally unacceptable and should be taken off the table completely.
The key reasons are;
• Impact of increased noise on the Cotswold Natural Landscape
• Incursions into the Cotswold National Landscape due to widening of
the A435 and impact on hedgerows and trees adversely affecting biodiversity
• Safety issues accessing Teddington and Alstone villages
• Safety issues mixing fast-moving strategic traffic with slow-moving local traffic
• Huge diversions and disruption during the build
• No contingency in the event of an incident on the A435 for diverting traffic
• Increased traffic on our quiet village lanes as traffic tries to avoid a busy junction on the A435
• Increased noise, light and air pollution for residents to the east of the A435
• Access to village facilities at Teddington Hands roundabout severed.
It is really important that as many residents as possible complete the Public Engagement survey. Although this isn’t a vote, we believe that a significantly high response selecting Option B as the preferred Eastern section route and explaining why Option A is totally unacceptable, cannot be ignored.
This could be our last chance to influence where the road goes and make sure Option A is taken off the table for good.
The survey for your completion can be found here;
https://haveyoursaygloucestershire.uk.engagementhq.com/junction-9/surveys/survey-m5-junction-9
The deadline for submitting your preference in their survey is Monday 2nd December, so don’t delay.
Thank you.
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November 2024
15/11/24 Atkins have now answered our second tranche of questions, some of which have been answered, some partially, others not at all. Disappointing to say the least.
Please note, Links to GCC and TBC from our Website may not work, this is due to problems with their websites, not ours.
Newsletter #34 Published 8/11/24. Available on Newsletters Tab.
TAAG have added a new page to our website,'Questions and Answers' where you will find questions that we have asked of the Planners and Gloucestershire County Council. These will be updated on a regular basis as receive answers.
The TAAG & Parish Council drop-in event had an excellent turnout, many thanks to all.
The Online Questionnaire is now completed.
Feedback on both will be included in our upcoming Newsletter. |
October 2024 Update
Added Village Hall Flyer
Added TAAGs version of Options A and B Pros and Cons Consultation and Engagement Page
Questionnaire Closed Feedback will be in our upcoming Newsletter.
Our last newsletter #33 mentioned that, to capture residents’ views and concerns about the route options, TAAG are doing our own questionnaire.
The results will be incorporated into the TAAG submission to Gloucestershire County Council to add weight to the arguments and help show the strength of feeling in our villages.
We would really appreciate you finding the time to complete our questionnaire. It’s only a short and shouldn’t take long to complete.
We’ve set a deadline of Monday 4th November, 12pm.
This is after the Drop-In Event in the village hall which we would remind you is on Friday 1st November from 3.00 – 7.00pm. This is so you can come along and, if needed, get any questions answered about the route options before completing the questionnaire.
Please click here to our Questionnaire
TAAG Newsletter #33 Published 22/10/24 Link
GCC have agreed to a Face to Face meeting with TAAG to discuss all aspects of the proposed changes to the A46. Week Commencing 28/10/2024.
On related news, Ashchurch Parish Council produced a report on the progress of the planned Garden Communities that residents may find interesting. Report can be found on the Reports Tab.
7/10/2024 13.00 Public Engagement has been launched with details on GCCs website Have your say Gloucestershire engagement - M5 J9 A46
The documents can also be found on our site. We will also include our opinions once we have had a chance to review the documentation in full.
Newsletter #32 'The Engagement ' Published 8/10/24 with all the latest and details of the Routes Consultation. Newsletter Tab
Cameron Thomas MP, has taken up our offer to get together to discuss all aspects of the changes to the A46. In the meantime, he has confirmed that has given GCC his support for their plans for the J9A bypass. |
September 2024
29/9/2024
FAQs and updated GCC M5 J9 A46 webpage available via Public Engagement on Route Options Tab
Gloucestershire County Council Press Release 27/9/2024
Have your say on potential route options for M5 Junction 9 and A46 (Ashchurch) Transport Scheme.
Gloucestershire County Council is running a public engagement exercise from Monday 7 October – Monday 2 December 2024 on potential route options for the M5 Junction 9 and A46 (Ashchurch) Transport Scheme.
We should expect:
Route Corridor Options Questionnaire
Maps Ordinance and Aerial
Route Corridor Options Brochure.
Full details in our updated Newsletter. Newsletter Tab
TAAG submitted several questions to the September County Council Meeting, one of the answers contained the following interesting information. GCC are going to carry out a public engagement exercise from October 7th for 8 weeks, to share shortlisted route options (rumoured to be 3) and seek the views of stakeholders on them.
Full details can be found on the Reports TAB
TAAG NEWSLETTER #31 SEPTEMBER 2024. Published 19/9/24 can now be found under the Reports Newsletters Tab
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August 2024
TAAG have written to our new MP, Cameron Thomas, briefing him on our role. As well as seeking a meeting with him to discuss further the potential changes to the A46.
Full update as to the outcome soon. |
June 2024
A local resident submitted Freedom of Information request to GCC as to the costs to date and ongoing of the A46 changes. Large numbers are involved.
Reports Tab |
May 2024
Latest Newsletter # 30 Published with details of the recent media and GCC Cabinet events included. Newsletter Tab Link
A46 M5 J9
TAAG interview as part of a report by BBC Political Reporter Edward Rowe as to the possible changes to the A46 M5 J9. Report
More money approved for planning changes to the A46 M5 J9 or 9A BBC Radio Gloucestershire report
GCC Cabinet Meeting Due 15/5/24 is due to request yet more money for development costs. An extract from the Agenda can be found on the reports page.
M5 Junction 9 and A46 Transport Scheme Timeline has also been updated, to the right, more uncertainty.
Update 15th May 2024
Cabinet approved the proposal without any questions or debate.
Cllr. Gray proposal can be viewed online item 6 Link |
March 2024
GCC update on the potential changes to the A46 and M5 Junction 9.
“Spring 2024 update
Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) has been considering undertaking a non-statutory public consultation for the M5 Junction 9 and A46 (Ashchurch) Transport Scheme. We have been reviewing the shortlist of scheme options and undertaken additional analysis to inform decision making. This work is ongoing. A non-statutory public consultation is now unlikely to take place until after a general election, which is expected later this year.” |
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