West Sussex County Council has announced that the A29 at Church Hill, Pulborough, which has been closed since December 2022 due to landslips, will soon be partially reopened. The council will use concrete blocks to create a protected, single lane carriageway down the centre of the road, allowing traffic to pass through. The contractor will start work shortly, and the work is expected to take about two weeks.
The landslide occurred at the narrowest part of the A29, where both sides are flanked by steep embankments, and the road had to be closed for safety reasons. The land on either side of the carriageway, where engineering works must take place to enable the safe re-opening of the road to two-way traffic, is not adopted highway land but owned by private landowners.
