Update on Sutton North #LTN launched on 14th September. We are trying to achieve the following: 1) Improve safety in the Grennell Road and Benhill Wood Road area by reducing traffic levels and speeds. 2) Reduce air pollution due to lower traffic numbers.
3) Make the area more pleasant and safer for children. 4) Reduce the number of non-resident vehicles cutting through the area. To achieve that we are trialling: 4 road closures to motor vehicles and 20mph speed limit in the North Sutton area.
These measures are in response to a residents survey in 2017, when you told us that you felt there was too much traffic in the area and a further consultation earlier this year on a 20mph speed limit. When the idea was recently proposed for the addition of a closure in...
... All Saints Road, ward Cllrs and I told officers of our concerns about the likely impact on neighbouring roads, specifically Woodend/Greenhill/ Aultone Way and Woodside Road. We were told the closure was necessary for the scheme to work and that the impact could be monitored.
Low traffic area schemes are designed to move traffic from smaller roads onto those more capable of taking them. After less than a week, our fears were correct and the All Saints Road closure seems to have done the opposite.
I have therefore contacted senior officers asking for the urgent removal of the road closure in All Saints Road. I have also asked that the traffic in the area continues to be monitored so that, in due course, we can see if any further measures are needed.
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