HAMPSHIRE County Council has delivered on its promise to introduce temporary measures to improve the safety of an accident black spot, while long-term plans are considered.

At the Cart and Horses junction, in Kings Worthy, the ‘give way’ signs at the end of London Road have been changed to ‘stop’.

Warning signs reading ‘new layout ahead’ have also been installed on the approach to the junction.

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The changes were made less than two weeks after the county council’s lead member for universal services, Cllr Nick Adams-King, said engineers were assessing what “interim improvements could be installed ahead of the potential development of longer-term major changes to the junction”.

The transport team held its first public information event on its two long-term proposals, of a double roundabout or signalised junction, on Wednesday, July 19.

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The chosen multi-million pound option would follow National Highways’ M3 Junction 9 improvement scheme if approved.

National Highways project lead, Alan Feist, said: “Our improvement scheme on M3 Junction 9 does not include the B3047 Cart & Horses junction within its boundary. The issues at this junction have been discussed with Hampshire County Council, and that any improvement work would not be part of the Development Consent Order proposal for the M3 junction 9 Improvement Scheme.

"We will continue to support Hampshire County Council where possible, however any work to this junction would not fall within National Highways’ remit.”

With future construction still up in the air, residents and local councillors have been campaigning for temporary measures to improve safety, with nine crashes resulting in injuries or fatalities between 2017 and the end of last year.

As well as stop signs, Cllr Adams-King said: “These interim interventions are likely to include exploring the potential for the provision of electronic ‘speed indicator devices’ on each of the A33 Basingstoke Road approaches.

“We have also asked National Highways to cut back the vegetation that is currently obscuring some of the existing warning and direction signs on the A33 northbound approach.”