MT 106/5

Classified roads: Parkway "F" (Eltham - Merton)

Date range	1947-1966
Location	National Archives (see all files stored here)
Catalogue	See entry
File base	Series MT, subseries MT 106

Context

This file concerns Parkway F, a road proposal from Abercrombie's Greater London Plan that made it as far as inclusion in several local authorities' Development Plans but withered away before the mid-1960s. Of all the places it passed through only Croydon seem to have been enthusiastic about it.

An extract from KCC's County Road Plan Report describes Parkway F as follows:

"It commences on the London to Folkeston [sic] Road, A.20, in the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich and passes along the Eltham to Chislehurst Road, B.263, to Camden Corner, Chislehurst, along the Bexley to Croydon Road, A.222, to Bickley Junction railway station and along part of Blackbrook Lane (unclassified), and thence by a new road across the Golf Course to the London to Hastings Road, A.21, where it crosses Route No. 9 (referred to in paragraph 32 of this report) near Oakley House. It then continues as a new road to Hayes Common, meets the Farnborough to Ewell Road, A.232, and continues along that road and the West Wickham to Sanderstead Road, B.268, to the County Boundary."

However, plans in the accompanying folder show the Parkway turning north at its western end to finish near Wimbledon instead of striking out for the Kingston Bypass. It's not remotely clear what purpose the road would serve, which is presumably why nobody built it.

Contents of note

• Tracing paper plan, dated 20/8/48, showing fragment of Parkway F in what is now Merton, running from A237 to A24. It follows Lower Green Road and Church Street - suggesting that LB Merton's 1990s plan for a cross borough route was Parkway F revived.
• Plan of whole County Borough of Croydon, as was, with road proposals including what became the M23. Parkway F would run across the south of the town centre, just below the Croydon Viaduct, and through various parks. This appears to be a predecessor to the inner route for Ringway 3.

People with camera copies

Chris Marshall has a partial copy.