HLG 159/1296

Beddington and Wallington Ratepayers and Residents Association: interchange at Beddington with M23 to connect with A232

Date range	1971
Location	National Archives (see all files stored here)
Catalogue	See entry
File base	Series HLG, subseries HLG 159

Context

The above mentioned local residents' group (who controlled four councillors on Sutton Council, apparently) objected to the concept of there being any sort of junction between the M23 and A232. This would seriously hinder access to Croydon from the motorway. Their axes had started grinding when the M23 proposal was published in 1967 and only got sharper when, at public meetings and then at the subsequent inquiry, they were told that only the line of the motorway was under discussion and nothing could be said about junctions.

Their argument (which is about destruction of amenity, traffic inducement and effect of roads and traffic on the character of the local area) is somewhat undermined by the fact that the organisation suggest that adjacent interchanges at Mitcham and Little Woodcote could serve Croydon and Sutton traffic, who could travel diagonally to reach them, rather than "two sides of a rectangle". So they're happy for other people to have all the disadvantages they describe.

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