Derek Deedman

Cycle charity ‘Sustrans’ have obtained some grant money to start completing a surfaced link from the end of the Downs Link to the Ropetackle development in Shoreham High Street. They are currently applying for planning permission to resurface the final approx. 100m of the County Council owned section at the very end of the Downs Link and then to construct a new path across the scrub and ditch to the riverbank and resurface approx 50m south. This will then still leave a gap from that point to the existing Ropetackle development which will have to be completed when the new Ropetackle North development gets approved and the Environment Agency have completed any necessary works on the embankment. A safety audit will also have to be carried out on this proposal before it can be approved. There is then the possibility of extending the resurfacing on the section up to the Toll Bridge depending upon how much money is available.