Preparations are underway for the Olympic Torch passing through Carshalton Ponds on Monday 23rd July 2012 sometime after 2pm.

Cllr. Hamish Pollock had recently asked the council officers that various items of flotsam, debris and other litter, including a traffic cone and a supermarket trolley were fished out of the Carshalton Ponds and it seems from inspections that all these items have be removed in recent days! 

After all the works to replace the railings, it is good timing that so much of the railings and ponds areas are better-looking than they have been for many years!A traffic order has been put in place by Sutton Council in preparation for the activities on that day:

The principal objective of the Order is to prohibit / regulate traffic and pedestrians to enable the holding of the Olympic Torch Relay event which will be held on Monday 23rd July 2012.

• Carshalton Park Road at its junction with Pound Street.
• pedestrians will be prohibited from using the footway in Pound Street, Carshalton.
• The Square at its junction with High Street, Carshalton.
• between Wallace Crescent and West Street, outside St Philomena’s and St Mary’s Schools.
• Vehicle access to properties adjacent to the prohibited lengths of road will be maintained at all times insofar as access is reasonably practicable without interference with the said event.
• Adjacent to Honeywood Lodge up to the junction with West Street, opposite The Greyhound public house.

All classes of vehicles not directly engaged in the event will be prohibited from entering or exiting.

There will be an enormous artificial Swan on the Upper Pond facing the proceeding Torch as previously posted on this web site.  More in a future posting..!