Residents had asked me to look into the possibility of implementing a Roundabout at the Chadwell Heath Lane/Grove Road Junction.

Although people in the vicinity believe that there have been in excess of 20 accidents every year at the junction. Police reports are deficient of this figure. Please view response from a Senior Highways Officer:

“There have been three slight and on serious personal injury accidents at this junction over the last three years, the 85%ile speed (the speed that 85% of vehicles travel at or below) is 34 mph and traffic flows are at a level we would expect for a local distributor road linking the High Road to the A12. Using the information against the prioritisation matrix the road gets a A4 rating (accident) and I will add the junction to the list of future schemes.

Just so you have an idea of the level of schemes that are before this junction. On the current list we have 31 A rated schemes that are either being worked on or awaiting funding of those 31, 22 are A4's and with current funding levels it is unlikely that the scheme will be worked on in the coming financial year.”

The officer later advised me that at this current time it would probably take 4 – 5 years for any work on this scheme -within the existing Highways budget and priorities. With this in mind, I have started a petition and will be submitting it to the next Area 5 Committee meeting - in an attempt to get an earlier date for installation.

This meeting will be held at 19:15 on the 11th May at Barley Lane Primary School, Huxley Drive. Please come along and show support for this project.