As a resident of Carshalton Park Road, I have received a consultation document on changes to the road junction by the Windsor Castle public house.

I am shocked by the lack of thought that has gone into Transport for London's proposal about the impact on the local area.

I agree improvements are needed to this junction. However, the plans include proposals to ban right turns from Park Hill into Beynon Road and left turns from Beynon Road into Park Hill.

This seems completely unnecessary and will see traffic diverting into local residential roads. It will also reduce traffic passing local businesses.

The consultation paper even recognises that traffic will be moved into the residential roads of Carshalton Park Road, Wales Avenue and Salisbury Avenue - "53 during the afternoon peak hour" (although we all know it lasts a lot longer than an hour, so is this per hour?).

But there are no changes proposed for these roads other than "to monitor" the impact. This means local residents would have to put up with increased traffic for many months or even years before TfL takes action.

We already see Carshalton Park Road and Wales Avenue used as a short cut, often with traffic travelling at dangerous speeds. We do not need to have more traffic on these residential road.

These roads are also used by local school children to avoid walking along the main roads.

Why is TfL proposing to take traffic from main roads on to residential roads? We need to keep traffic on main roads and reduce the speed travelled along residential roads.

I hope local residents and businesses will oppose these proposals until TfL make changes to avoid diverting traffic, unnecessarily, into residential roads.

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