Help Ensure Safety of Junction Before Tunnel Works Begin
January update from Carnwath Road Coalition asks for urgent email response
The first Community Liaison Working Group [CLWG], set up by Tideway (the Tunnel construction company), met at Thomas’s School in Hugon Road on 13th January.
It was attended by members of the community who are nominated to represent their street/buildings within 250 metres of the site, and Tideway representatives.
The agenda set out the concerns of the community, (the main area of adverse impact on health &well-being) and highlighted the concerns of people living in Sands End Ward, and Walham and Parsons Green Ward.
Minutes of this meeting and action points will be published on the Tideway website shortly.
However there is one issue which concerns everyone living in Sands End. This is the safety of the junction of Carnwath Road, Wandsworth Bridge Road and Townmead Road.
It is accepted that it is unsafe, and LBHF and TfL are planning a new layout. However this is unlikely to happen until the end of 2016. Tideway have announced their intention of starting preliminary work on site in April 2016.
This is not acceptable to residents and we would ask you to respond to our request that no work on the Tunnel site begins until the junction is made safe. CLWG representatives have already voted ‘no’ to Tideway starting work on the site until the road junction is made safe.
The email below was circulated to all the representatives attending the CLGW meetings. We would now like to include the wider community, so please consider adding your support to this request.
To All Members of the Carnwath Road Working Group,
At our CLWG meeting last week, Tideway confirmed that they will begin work in April but the Council and Planning are delaying the work to widen the junction until late this year - November or December. This means that there will be six to eight months in which, by their own admission, the use of lorries to get to the site and the roads around the site will be unsafe. Tideway also confirmed that there will be at least six to eight lorry movements a day at the beginning of the work. The promised pedestrian crossings are also not due to be installed until the end of the year. Safety of the community has become less important than starting the work in April.
DO YOU AGREE?
We propose that the CLWG insist that NO WORK BEGIN until the safety of the community is protected by the completion of the work to widen the Carnwath Road Junction with Wandsworth Bridge Road and the installation of pedestrian crossings.
If you agree, please email Ann Rosenberg at annrosenberg72@gmail.com as soon as possible with your view on this issue.
Please put STOP WORK - YES in the subject line if you agree or STOP WORK - NO in the subject line if you disagree.
THE NEXT STEP - IF THERE IS A MANDATE
This vote will instruct the Chairman, Ann Rosenberg, to inform Tideway that the CLWG, on behalf of the community, insists that the Carnwath Road junction with Wandsworth Bridge Road and Carnwath Road crosswalks be made safe before any work starts. The CLWG instructs Ann Rosenberg to ask the LBH&F to compel Tideway not to begin work until this essential safety work is completed. The CLWG instructs Ann Rosenberg-Bell to ask for protection from the Health and Safety Executive to ensure that both the Council and Tideway protect the safety of the Community.
THIS IS A MATTER OF URGENCY
Please contact Ann Rosenberg immediately at her email address: annrosenberg72@gmail.com
Indicate your support for this proposal by writing STOP WORK - YES in the subject line.
Indicate your objection by writing STOP WORK - NO in the subject line.
Use the body of the email for any comments you might make.
Thank you.
The Carnwath Road Coalition, formed to challenge Thames Water’s decision to site a main draft shaft in Carnwath Road, represents a large number of local groups and residents, including RATs (Residents Against the Thames Sewer), PRARA, (Peterborough Road and Area Residents Association, HDRA, (Hurlingham and District Residents Association), The Fulham Society, The Parsons Green Club, Wandsworth Bridge Traders Association, St Matthews Church Wandsworth Bridge Road, Riverside West Residents Association, Regent on the River Residents Association, and Battersea Reach Residents Association.
January 29, 2016
