On Thursday 30th January Maygrove Road in West Hampstead was completely closed in both directions between Ariel Road and Handrail House in order to lay sewers to serve the new development of flats on the Handrail House site. The road will be closed for three months! The closure will affect around 50 residences as well as access to the Peace Park and Sidings Community Centre. Parking on the affected section of Maygrove Road has been suspended and through traffic will necessarily be diverted along nearby Fordwych Loveridge and Iverson Roads. Residents on Maygrove Road were notified of the closure the previous weekend but Councillors were only notified on the day the closure took place.
On Thursday evening Cllrs Keith Moffitt and Gillian Risso-Gill visited Maygrove Road to speak with residents about how the closure would affect them. At the same time, we learnt that parking suspensions were in force in adjacent Loveridge Road for tree and pavement works, placing further pressure in parking in the whole area.
On Friday 31st January we raised various concerns with Council Officers and secured the following actions:
- Parking suspensions in Loveridge Road have been lifted and the planned works will be postponed until after Maygrove Road is reopened.
- There will be a "marshalled" filter lane available for refuse collection for the affected properties.
- There will be a "marshalled" filter lane for accessing properties for the physically disabled, emergency services, grocery deliveries, etc. on an "as needed basis"
- All further works will be fully coordinated with Maygrove residents and Ward Councillors with a weekly newsletter.
- Due to the configuration of the sewer connections they need to be done in a specific way and this requires the whole section to be closed at the same time.
- The sewer works and demolition will begin on Monday 3rd February, 2014.
Please let the Councillors know if there are any further concerns or problems caused by this closure.
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