Tuesday 5 April 2011

A worrying letter

Nancy, Flick and myself have just received the following, rather worrying letter...

Dear Stakeholder,

Finchley Road – National Grid Gas Works

TfL is writing to make you aware of forthcoming works proposed by National Grid Gas (NGG) on Finchley Road between Swiss Cottage and Hendon Way. NGG wishes to replace 6.5km of old metallic gas mains, replacing them with new hard wearing plastic pipes.

NGG would like to start their preparatory work in April 2011 for a mains replacement programme lasting up to 24 months. TfL has yet to receive NGG’s detailed proposals, however we thought you would wish to be made aware of their broad intentions. TfL will of course consider the proposals in the light of any other works proposed in the area, and in light of the Olympics, will work with National Grid to reduce the impact of these major works on the area as far as possible. NGG will be working extended hours in order to complete the works as quickly as possible.

TfL will write to you with details of each phase of work, including the traffic management plans, once these are known. In the meantime, if you have any queries regarding this please contact TfL’s customer service team on 0845 305 1234 or via our website at www.tfl.gov.uk/contact.

Yours faithfully

Samantha Clarke-Jackman

Lets hope they share the information with us before plans are finalised. There might be unecessary disruption to surrounding roads that can be avoided if we're able to let them know ahead of time of potential clashes that are best avoided.

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