Leader: What is the traffic idea behind a new IKEA?

Newsdesk • Published 23 Sep 2010 09:30 4 Comments

WHEN it comes to headline-making development in this area, the elephant never stays in the corner for long.

Indeed, the second thought in most minds when we revealed IKEA’s long awaited and most welcome arrival was imminent, must have been: “What about the traffic?”

With plans for a 1,400-space car park it’s fair to assume it is expecting its customers to fill it on more than the odd occasion. The ensuing chaos were even some of those customers to join an exit queue from Pincents Lane and merge with lines of departing shoppers from Sainsbury’s is too gruesome to contemplate.

When we contacted West Berkshire Council yesterday, there was an understandable reluctance for anyone to commit to a road scheme which will inevitably involve a new junction at the Dorking Way-Pincents Lane roundabout and possibly even a reworking of the Junction 12 merry-go-round too.

And who can blame them, with councils still uncertain whether Chancellor George Osborne will decide this month to make his cuts go deeper?

The crux of the issue could be how deep IKEA might be prepared to dig to contribute to road improvements. So with that in mind, the news that IKEA has been talking to Blue Living, which has so far been thwarted in its plans to build a minitown on Pincents Hill, will be unnerving for some.

We might then find it necessary to keep an eye on the contents of the elephant’s trunk.

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This article appeared in Reading Chronicle 23 Sep 10

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  will homebase and carpet right and the bowling alley closed down or will it still be the same ? because i went to the plans in reading town hall last weekend and on the maps it looks like there building over homebase?
  
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