Lytton Close Road

View Looking down Lytton Close

I was surprised that it is the intension of LHA_ASRA to name this section of road: Dennett Road as it is actually an extension of Eastham Close Road. With all of the tenant home owner/occupiers of Lytton Close not wanting there street re-named, it brings into question whether the two new shoebox houses built next to Mr Whyman’s home of 9 Lytton Close will be located in Dennet Close or Eastham Close, even though they have been constructed on the Eastham Close area!

The main concern of the Lytton Close locals is that this section of new road has no pavement either side, and no street lighting is to be introduced in the near future. Despite the recent reassurance from Mr Alex Barras (Stonebridge project Manager LHA_ASRA) that there will be street lights (24^th August meeting), I am advised by the street lighting dept they have no plans to lay street lighting cables in front of Lytton Close prior to the construction of this new road.

 

If you are unable to persuade the street lighting dept to do otherwise, it means that the road will be built to a high standard, and then contractors will come along and dig two narrow trenches either side of the road, along the full length, to install the necessary Street lighting cables! Or there will be NO street lights here at all making the roadway a serious safety hazard for locals, as we have said all along.

 

The other consideration is the use of traffic calming -- staggered humps -- along the proposed road in front of Lytton Close. I am advised by the cleansing section of NCC that this would make the road difficult for bin-lorries to travel along, in addition to emergency vehicles.