THE ambitions of Farnham MP Jeremy Hunt to secure a partial pedestrianisation of the town centre are unlikely to be achieved without transferring air pollution and congestion elsewhere.

That is the picture to emerge from a Surrey County Council report commissioned to assess suggestions put forward for changing the town's traffic network to benefit pedestrians.

But the initial appraisal has not ruled out the possibility of a workable solution emerging from adapting the proposals, drawn up by Max Lyons, the Farnham architect, with support from the South West Surrey MP.

The scheme was presented last summer to the Farnham Traffic Task Group, which then commissioned the study carried out last September by the county council.

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