- Target:
- The Trustees of John Lyon School
- Region:
- United Kingdom
The residents of Kingsfield Road are deeply concerned by sudden plans to close the access point from their road to Churchfields with no consultation, prior information or explanation from Harrow Council.
On July 31st the council used a Polite Notice affixed to a post by the access point to inform the public that, by the 26th August, there will be a locked gate and fence at the end of Kingsfield Road - to be locked at all times. The following day a fencing contractor measured up.
As you can imagine, the residents and the wider Hill community are angered and baffled by this action. Kingsfield Road has been open to the Hill since living memory, is a much admired view and is in constant use by workers, school children, tourists, dog walkers, ramblers and local residents.
The council state that John Lyon school trustees requires the council, as leaseholders, to comply with an old covenant in the lease to fence off and lock Kingsfield road from the Churchfields. Given that the path on Kingsfild Road and the adjacent path along the edge of Churchfields are both public rights of way, there is no apparent logical reason for blocking an access point, which serves the community so well and attracts many visitors to this conservation area.
We, the undersigned, protest against the proposed erection of a fence and permanently locked gate at the top of Kingsfield Road, thereby preventing direct access to the Hill at this point.
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The Keep Kingsfield Road open to The Hill petition to The Trustees of John Lyon School was written by maria trafford and is in the category Neighborhood Living at GoPetition.