Wokingham Borough Council will announce their preferred route for the bypass on Monday 15th July, at 7pm at the Henry Street Garden Centre.
If you are a resident of Arborfield Village, Farley Hill or any other of the areas through which the bypass may pass, or a regular user of the A327 this is a vitally important meeting to attend.
As a reminder, this is the closest thing to a list of proposed routes that have been published – remember that the only certainty on this diagram is the connections into the existing road network, any real route certainly won’t be a sweeping curve like these.
We can however take some educated guesses as to where the routes might go. Option A is the “do nothing” option. Option B is a long bypass directly connecting directly to the end of the relief road around the South of M4 SDL at Shinfield, it then would take a path a long way from Arborfield but would have a significant effect around Farley Hill – rejoining the existing A327 at the junction with the proposed new access road into the Arborfield SDL. Option C would avoid Farley Hill and would run past Greensward Lane and Arborfield Court, it would meet the A327 again at the existing roundabout between the Garrison and the village itself. Option D would run very tight behind the houses in Chamberlain Gardens and Melrose Gardens, and alongside the recreation ground, effectively closely following the existing public footpath. Whilst this would bypass Arborfield Cross itself the extra traffic would still use the existing A327 past the houses further down the Reading Road. Option E is effectively another tight pass of Arborfield but on the eastern side, running behind the Coombes School and across the fields between Arborfield Cross and Langley Common Road.
We’ve published a poster advertising the meeting, please feel free to print out copies and share them around the affected areas to ensure as many people as possible know about the meeting.
