Heavy Lorries Cause Heavy Hearts for Residents

Bar the flooding, there are other serious concerns about our roads that is often overlooked.

Road vibrations.

Road vibrations are caused by heavy duty traffic going on roads that cannot properly accommodate them, due to the substructure being constantly eroded by leaky pipes and flooding. This can ruin residents' private property, as masonry can literally fall of your house as lorries or other large vehicles speed past.

Concerned residents have already approached us - with fallen debris from their house in hand - to try and find solutions to this upsetting problem.

Alongside this worrying issue, there is, of course the matter for public safety. As can be seen by the image below, if debris as sharp as some of the masonry we saw is falling from  great heights, it could cause serious injury to the public.

Dangerous - sharp pieces of masonry have fallen off in the Haydon Park Road area

To solve this problem, we believe that a multiple agency organisation needs to be set up, with  all the institutions (The Environment Agency, Thames Water & Merton Council) involved so that they cannot 'pass the buck' to one another. 

We believe also that greater transparency is required in the process of finding out when the council last inspected a road. This would allow residents to pressure the council with information that, currently, they do not have.
Read more about our 5-point action plan here