Decision details

The Cabinet will be asked to approve the preferred option for the improvement of the Merry Fiddlers Junction and local environment in Becontree Heath

Cabinet agreed:

(i)  To the implementation of the improvements to the Merry Fiddlers Junction and surrounds, as set out in Appendix 1 to the report, including:

·  Replace the paving around the junction.

·  Reduce the number of lanes on Wood Lane next to the leisure centre from 5 to 3

·  Make the dangerous Wood Lane / Homestead Road junction safer.

·  Link the Becontree Leisure Centre and Morrisons car parks together.

·  Ban the dangerous right hand turns into and out of Althorne Way and out of Morrisons onto Wood Lane. Open up Stour Road to allow access from Althorne Way to Rainham Road North.

(ii)  To undertake a consultation on the nature and extent of a localised parking plan for the area, including the Stour Road area and the area outside the Merry Fiddlers shopping parade on Becontree Avenue.

(iii)  To authorise the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Cabinet Members for Environment and Regeneration and the Valence and Heath Ward Members, to:

(a)  agree and implement specific measures for the Wood Lane / Homestead Road junction, following consideration of the options to improve safety in that area,

(b)  to undertake further investigative work to establish the feasibility of banning the right turn out of the Shell petrol station onto Wood Lane and changing the access into the Merry Fiddlers shopping parade from Wood Lane to Green Lane.