The Planning Inspectorate

Dibden Terminal Inquiry

On 12 December 2002, the inquiry (which opened on 27 November 2001) closed into the proposal by Associated British Ports for development of a deep-water container terminal at Dibden Bay, on Southampton Water. The decision on the application of the Dibden Terminal Inquiry was issued on the 20th April 2004.

The inquiry was in effect concurrent inquiries into the following:

the Port of Southampton (Dibden Terminal) Harbour Revision Order;

the Fawley Branch Line Improvements Order;

a Stopping up Order to authorise the stopping up of two areas of highway at the Hythe Road, near Marchwood;

four planning applications (called-in by the Secretary of State) for improvements to the A326 and Terminal Access Road Junction and for noise barriers along Fawley Branch Line, plus additional improvements to A326 and Hythe Road at Totton and Marchwood and

a proposal to provide land at West Cliff Hall in exchange for open space at the Hythe Marina Bund.

 

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Please Note this Inquiry closed on the 12th December 2002