Less-than-magic roundabout: this junction of five roads, including on Lower Addiscombe Road, is described as ‘horrible’ and ‘confusing’
Orchard memories: the plans for the junction include new tress
There is a public meeting being held tomorrow night to discuss plans to reshape the junction of Cherry Orchard Road and Lower Addiscombe Road to make it more pedestrian-friendly.
The radical plans being proposed would remove the current mini-roundabout outside the long-neglected Leslie Arms pub for what those organising the meeting describe as “this horrible, confusing and dangerous junction that is so awful to use if you are on foot”.
Planning gain: suggestions for the junction, where the hatched areas would be pedestrianised
According to meeting organisers, “Doing away with the roundabout and the islands in the middle of the roads will free up space for wider pavements, cycle lanes, trees and pedestrian-friendly crossings.
“It will join the four corners into a proper shopping area which will bring out the best of the great shops we already have here and give locals somewhere safe and pleasant to do their daily shop. That is the dream anyway!”
The meeting, which is expected to be attended by the councillors from the two Addiscombe wards, will also be a chance to discover what modelling has been conducted on traffic flows and the likely impact the changes might have on the use of the usually very busy junction.
The meeting is being held on Thursday, February 24 from 7.30pm at Nazarene Church Hall (the white church building by the Coop).
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