North Circular Rd.

[Meadowgrover]

Could anybody tell me why, when travelling east from the Finchley Rd. there are so many boarded up & generally derelict looking houses on the north circular?

[SeaJayPea]

I'm assuming you mean a bit further round, just past Muswell Hill. There was a plan to make the road a dual carriageway from Bounds Green Road round to Palmers Green. The houses were bought with the intention of widening the road.
I believe the plan's been put on ice now.

[LoftyLottie]

Typical planning! Empty houses and people homeless - they could have at leat provided homes for a few more years.

[LoftyLottie]

'at least'

[SeaJayPea]

Absolutely. And of course no maintenance has been done on them so they are more than likely uninhabitable now unless huge sums are spent on them.

[Meadowgrover]

Thanks - that explains it. It must have cost a fortune to buy all that property and it just looks a disgrace now, especially as those 1950s (rough guess) semis can look so good when they are well maintained.

[Panic Button]

I wish they would dual that bit of the North Circ. Its a bottleneck nightmare.

I guess Ken likes it that way.

Traffic calming, that's what they call it.