Get involved
The baseline has to be recorded before construction starts.
Construction is programmed for December 2026. Once construction traffic is on the road, nobody can measure what it was like before. Every clean week of data recorded now is evidence that cannot be argued with later.
Founding meeting of the action group
- See the evidence — the council’s own documents, counts and decisions, laid out in full
- Form a constituted action group, so our objections and questions carry formal weight
- Agree the ask before the council’s Cabinet decides the scheme’s business case on 10 September
Everyone on or near the Bridge Sollers Road, in Madley, Bridge Sollers and Lulham — and every parent at the school. Be there — please care.
What would help most
Record traffic from your own window
Continuous camera-based counters can be mounted inside a window facing the road. They need no permission and no roadworks, and they build a continuous record of volume and speed. If your house faces the C1098 and you would be willing to host one, that is the single most useful thing you can offer.
Report near misses and incidents
The official collision record only counts injuries that were reported to the police. It does not capture the lorry that had to reverse, the walker who stepped into a hedge, or the near miss at the crossroads. Tell us what happened, when, and where. A dated log of ordinary incidents is evidence the formal record structurally cannot hold.
Support the ask at your parish council
Madley Parish Council and Bishopstone Group Parish Council are both already on the record about this road, from 2018. A parish motion adopting the ask — monitoring, defined triggers, a pre-agreed package — carries considerably more weight with the council than the same words from individual residents.
Write to your ward councillor
Two questions are worth putting on the record: when the Belmont Road traffic order will be advertised, and whether the current design conforms to the 2016 approved plans and the 2018 Side Roads Order.
Tell us if we have something wrong
If you know this road and think a figure on this site misrepresents it, we want to know. The case rests entirely on the accuracy of the evidence, and a corrected fact is worth more to us than an uncorrected one.
What we are not asking for
We are not asking anyone to oppose the bypass. Plenty of residents want it built, and the group takes no position on the scheme as a whole. The ask is narrow and specific: that the council commits to measuring the effect it has already admitted, and to acting on defined thresholds when they are crossed.
That framing matters practically as well as honestly. An objection the council can resolve by making a commitment is far more likely to succeed than one it can only refuse.