Villagers may have use of airfield road
Thursday, 9th March 1978.
HUNDON people may have a much quicker route to Newmarket, if an old road across Stradishall Airfield is reopened.
Mr Ken Wilkin, chairman of Hundon parish council said at a meeting last week he had met a representative of the Property Services Agency, the government body who are in charge of returning the airfield land to the farmers.
Mr Wilkin said he had asked whether the old road which ran from Steeplechase across the airfield to join the A143 near Highpoint prison could now be re-opened.
Prepared
He had been told that if Suffolk County Council agreed to take over the road,. the Property Services Agency would be prepared to let it go.
Otherwise, the road which is now a track, or completely grassed over, would become an access track lbr farmers.
The parish council have written to ask that the road be’ opened, but Mr Wilkin said they would have to be ready to supply good reasons, because the cost of making the track a road again would run into many thousands of pounds.
If the road were re-opened it would cut three miles off a journey from Hundon to Highpoint or Newmarket.
Mr Vic Hart said the parishes had been promised extra roads, to make up for the extra traffic generated by the prison. There had been none built yet.
Mr Ken Wilkin, chairman of Hundon parish council said at a meeting last week he had met a representative of the Property Services Agency, the government body who are in charge of returning the airfield land to the farmers.
Mr Wilkin said he had asked whether the old road which ran from Steeplechase across the airfield to join the A143 near Highpoint prison could now be re-opened.
Prepared
He had been told that if Suffolk County Council agreed to take over the road,. the Property Services Agency would be prepared to let it go.
Otherwise, the road which is now a track, or completely grassed over, would become an access track lbr farmers.
The parish council have written to ask that the road be’ opened, but Mr Wilkin said they would have to be ready to supply good reasons, because the cost of making the track a road again would run into many thousands of pounds.
If the road were re-opened it would cut three miles off a journey from Hundon to Highpoint or Newmarket.
Mr Vic Hart said the parishes had been promised extra roads, to make up for the extra traffic generated by the prison. There had been none built yet.
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