Cllr. Hamish Pollock reports as chair of the Carshalton & Clockhouse Local Committee: “We are planning to tackle the problem of speeding on Grosvenor Avenue, residents asked ward councillors and me for a solution that did not involve speed humps and did not cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. Finally money has been found for the works in the Council’s Local Implementation Plan.

Grosvenor Avenue Carshalton in quieter times…

Officers have put forward a “traffic calming” scheme (but no humps!) to the LIP (Local Implementation Plan) fund, which will hopefully meet residents approval by introducing road islands at strategic points.

Until now this long running issue has had been tackled by the police’s Safer Neighbourhood Team with Speed Enforcement Operations.  A Carshalton South & Clockhouse ward councillor Lib Dem Peter Fosdike (who used to live in the road for many years) has taken part on these operations and was surprised to to see just how fast people go along the road. 

Grosvenor Avenue is just outside Carshalton Central ward with the boundary at the junction with Park Avenue.