Transport & Parking
Transport
The Phoenix Quarter proposal allows for a completely new routing of traffic flows around Lewes that will make life more comfortable for residents, business people, employees and visitors alike.
In doing so, it compliments and links into the traffic management scheme currently being designed by the County Traffic Engineers. This involves taking vehicles, which currently have to go through the historic core of the town, by a new routing, straight into the Phoenix Quarter from the Causeway at one end and from North Street at the other.
Angel Property will create the necessary road link to the new traffic junction and provide a concealed multi-level car park with 415 spaces accessible as soon as the visitor to Lewes crosses the bridge. Furthermore, additional visitor and bicycle spaces would be created throughout The Quarter below a pedestrianized new riverside promenade.
These new parking arrangements will help eliminate the necessity for the ‘circling’ of traffic through the centre as visitors hunt for a suitable parking space. And will allow the closure of some existing surface car parks in the town that are both ineffi cient and unsightly.
The Phoenix Quarter proposals would make a major contribution toward the number of off-street parking spaces for visitors to the whole of Lewes as well as sufficent provision for its own new residents. In doing so it will play an important role in reducing traffic stress throughout the town.
It will also have an extensive cycle path network that links with all parts of the town, and will promote pedestrian access, with a new footbridge across the Ouse and extensive vehicle-free environments. Efforts to reduce the impact of cars will be implemented to include the use of car-clubs and bus services to link the quarter with the existing transport nodes.
Concealed Parking
One of the advantages of raising the riverfront ground level to podium level is that all of the car parking, which would otherwise be on show, is hidden from view by landscaped communal gardens, riverfront walkways and pedestrian priority streets.
The multi-storey carpark proposed for the corner of Phoenix Place and Phoenix Causeway will be screened from view by the new residential block. CZWG have achieved an architectural solution that is both practical and attractive to pedestrians and drivers alike.
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