14 September 2012

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Letter from Southern
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Dear Neighbour,

We are working on a project at many of our rail stations to upgrade our existing car parks to help meet the growing demand in passenger numbers on the railway. We are planning to improve the car park at East Grinstead station by increasing the number of spaces by around 110.

We plan to do this by installing a single deck on part of the main car park. This deck will be prefabricated off-site with the actual construction on-site kept to a minimum, reducing potential noise and/or disruption.

We have undertaken traffic and footfall surveys to understand how car park users are accessing our stations. We hope that these changes to the car park at East Grinstead will help encourage station users to park in the car park rather than in the surrounding area.

If you would like to see the plans and discuss the project in more detail with our project managers, please drop by at our ‘Meet the Project Managers’ session in East Grinstead main station car park on Thursday 20 September anytime between 1630 and 2000.

Otherwise please contact us by email at carparkextensions@southernrailway.com

Currently we plan to continue with design up to the end of 2012 and be on site in mid January 2013.

I would like to apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you but you can be assured that we will do everything we can to ensure you are not disturbed by the work.

Kind regards,

Andy Latimer
Southern Project Manager