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Highways agency - Alice (26th Dec 2012 - 22:25:40) Hi there can anyone tell me if people living in hunters chase would be able to claim compensation due to increased road noise from the A3 since the tunnel has opened? Many thanks

Re: Highways agency - Dave (27th Dec 2012 - 09:08:37) theres always one! you moved there! That tunnel has been on the cards for 60 years!

Re: Highways agency - Paul Robinson (27th Dec 2012 - 09:10:10) Really not sure if you have grounds for a claim for compensation due to increased use of the A3 since the tunnel opened however you should be aware that the question of increased noise is currently under investigation. Please go to the Bramshott and Liphook Parish Council website (there is a link on the left hand side of this page) where you will find a report from Ferris Cowper, our County Councillor, who, with the assistance of Damian Hinds our Member of Parliament, is currently investigating noise levels from this road which have been the subject of repeated complaints from local residents. Paul Robinson

Re: Highways agency - tony (28th Dec 2012 - 10:57:35) Will all the new 'new lot' who'll be living in the new estate planned for the Longmoor Road site be able to claim for noise pollution too? I know the houses haven't even been built yet! Let's just keep building and building until there's nowhere left to run.

Re: Highways agency - H (28th Dec 2012 - 11:44:54) Yes I find the suggestion of compensation laughable- can those of us be compensated for the extra noise generated by the building of new estates like Hunters chase? extra traffic generated by new estates? Surely the benefits we derive as residents and drivers from the tunnel must be weighed up against the noise? Can I claim if a neighbour disturbs me with screaming children? where do you stop?

Re: Highways agency - Alice (28th Dec 2012 - 12:51:08) Have you really got nothing better to do than post un needed comments, I was merely asking a simple question as someone had told me you can be compensated for reduction in house values due to altered roads. Sorry that I was enquiring and thought that here would be the best place to do so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Highways agency - simon (29th Dec 2012 - 13:04:41) Alice i think you raised a good point Paul is the only one who has made a constructive reply! I know when the A3 bypass was completed payments were made but now carriage of traffic is much more due to the tunnel . I think at least they should look at some sound proof barrier the same that has been erected on the M3 at Camberley recently .

Re: Highways agency - tony (29th Dec 2012 - 13:38:07) Realistically of course the answer is no. Actually you can't sue them if your house is built on a riverbed or floodplain and it gets flooded either, and nor should you. But we'll keep building in these silly places because the government wants millions of new homes for newcomers and you'll keep buying and voting for them. Break free and vote ukip! No cash for an ever increasingly busy country, but if you really push you might just get a fence.

Re: Highways agency - H (29th Dec 2012 - 14:03:59) Was everyone in Liphook given cash compensation then for the building of the bypass in the first place? surely only if there was compulsory purchase of land? You are right Paul complaints to your MP is the only redress in this instance.

Re: Highways agency - Richard (3rd Jan 2013 - 14:08:02) There are no grounds for compensation that I am aware of. The land compensation act is the relevant bit of legislation here but it provides very limited circumstances in which a claim for compensation can be made and road improvements several miles away and the traffic impact thereof will not qualify as grounds for compensation. Fairly modest compensation was paid to residents in close vicinity of the road when it was constructed but that was a very different set of circumstances.

Re: Highways agency - Allan (3rd Jan 2013 - 15:44:47) Hi H, I know some residents in Bramshott were awarded compensation for the noise generated post August 1992. The qualification for compo was that you had to have been a resident of the area prior to the opening of the bypass. It took a fairly long period of time for payments to be made, but were, in some cases, quite substantial

Re: Highways agency - NMG (3rd Jan 2013 - 23:05:10) Unless I'm mistaken, Hunters Chase is directly next to the A3. The boundary of Hunters Chase was formed during the engineering works to form the A3. When the Liphook and Petersfield bypass opened, original occupants of Hunters Chase were unbelievably able to successfully claim compensation if they had completed their purchase prior to the road opening. Common sense dictates and statistics show that roads are not getting quieter, therefore if you buy a house next to the A3; put up with it or move.

Re: Highways agency - Jeremy (4th Jan 2013 - 15:06:37) Lived on Hunters Chase since day one,l was lucky enough to get compensation,seemed daft to me,but as they say 'never look a gift horse in the mouth',so if there is another chance please let me know,noise does not bother me,more worried about the speeding traffic going along 'Headley Road'.

Re: Highways agency - rita (4th Jan 2013 - 22:44:27) well i just laughed when i was reading this post. i have lived in liphook all my life. will i get compensation for having to put up with light pollution from bohunt's floodlit football pitch and for the the new houses (hunters chase ect) who have a fire work party until 3.15 new years day and for when one of the little darlings goes back to boarding school. this is what annoys me when all the new people in the villiage want every one to bow down to them like they are royalty. our villiage is being spoilt by people who want something for nothing all the time. if you dont like it. then move.

Re: Highways agency - Alice (5th Jan 2013 - 21:19:16) Yet again a comment that is completely not needed, I now know why people don't bother with this site anymore as you get jumped on by do gooders for merely asking a question! And Rita how so you know I'm not liphook born and bread. Typical liphook residents!!!!!

Re: Highways agency - rita (5th Jan 2013 - 23:25:03) hi alice. i am just very fed up with people expecting something for nothing all the time. you moved there. you would have known about the noise. i have lived in liphook for 39 years and the bypass was always on the cards ever since i can remember. your first comment made me annoyed because as i said i have had to put up with, loud firework partys , ever since new houses were built near me. and a few back to boarding school partys which have been going on til 4 am. light pollution from bohunt, the birds are confused they start singing when the lights are on from the pitch. yet i am not expecting compensation. i am also fed up with new developments in liphook they are part of the reason this villiage is so congested. and yes alice i am proud of my villiage and you can say i am a typical liphook resident if you wish. xxx ps i was not the only one to criticise you. and am proud to be a typical liphook resident! xx

Re: Highways agency - liz (7th Jan 2013 - 10:08:21) Typical Liphook residents? That must include you then Alice!

Re: Highways agency - H (7th Jan 2013 - 16:45:23) Lots of comments are not needed, this web page was set up for people to express their opinions. I cannot imagine that the noise now from the tunnel traffic is as bad as the noise experienced by residents when they were building the Hunters Chase Estate.

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