Last night there was a meeting in the Fortune Green Play Centre (sorry about the little chairs!!)
for residents to talk to Camden officers about the problems in Fortune Green Road attended by your 3 ward Councillors, Flick, Nancy and Russell. One proposal put forward was welcomed as a first step which is to create a "loading/unloading bay" out of the very wide pavement by the new shops - don't forget there are 3 other shop units still to be taken up and they will all need some unloading facilities. In the longer term, Camden have agreed they will looks at the wider area to see if the whole new development will make local parking problems worse. New residents of the block (one was present) can not have residents parking permits nor, he said, visitors permits.
Lots of issues like road safety were also brought up and the fears that if/when the alcohol licence is granted, there would be people stopping as they drive past - one resident said it would be the last shop before the M1! On the other hand there was general agreement that local people would use it and, as Councillors, we reported that we had received several emails in support of the new Tesco. But almost all are agreed that parking and traffic congestion is the main worry.
We've promised to keep you posted about Camden's plans to create an unloading bay.
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