South Parade Resurfacing Taking Place This Week
Work will require the closure of the road for two days
Works have been taking place on the road since the end of October. Picture: Facundo Arrizabalaga/MyLondon
December 3, 2023
South Parade will be completely shut for at least two days this week as a five-week long project on the road comes to an end.
Up until this point, disruption from the scheme has been reported to have been less than feared with contractors removing the temporary traffic lights when work was not ongoing. For the work so far, only one lane on the carriageway has been closed at any time.
However, significant extra delays are expected in the area when the road is shut to allow for resurfacing. It is understood that the road will be closed on Monday 4 December and Tuesday 5 December with the following day also possibly affected in the event of any delays.
The road will be shut from the Fishers Lane roundabout to the junction with The Avenue. During previous closures of this road traffic has been diverted up The Avenue and along Southfield Road to rejoin South Parade via Acton Lane. This is expected to result in a significant amount of extra traffic on other residential streets in the Bedford Park and Acton Green area although Ealing Council says it expects any disruption to be minimal.
Access into Esmond Road, The Orchard, Newton Grove and Bedford Corner will be blocked.
Ealing Council has ruled out reopening Fishers Lane during the closure.
All work is due to finish on the road once resurfacing is complete, which will come as a relief to local businesses who believed that the project, which started at the end of October, would have a negative impact on their takings in the key period up to Christmas. One café owner in the area said that the cumulative effect of the South Parade works combined with other roadworks and traffic restrictions in the area had resulted in, what had been a 10-minute trip to work, sometimes taking an hour.
Work has already begun on the northern side of South Parade
Ealing Council denied the South Parade works, which were to repair kerbs, footways and drainage, had caused any serious delays up until this point saying that neither London Buses nor the Emergency Services had expressed any concerns about the timing of the work. A council spokesperson said that the borough tended to cease all highways work in town centres in the three weeks prior to Christmas.
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