When Marks and Spencers took over the Iceland site residents of Chesterfield Grove had concerns about the timing of vehicle deliveries. Iceland had restricted their delivery times so as to not disturb residents. At the planning application meeting Marks and Spencers insisted that their business model required deliveries at all times and then produced a ground plan showing how all their vehicles could enter from the Lordship Lane end and negotiate the tight turn around the wall of the car wash to access their delivery yard so that there would be no vehicle movements down Chesterfield Grove. As anyone who lives in Chesterfield Grove and Melbourne Grove now knows this is not the case and vehicles repeatedly drive down Chesterfield Grove to execute a three point turn at the junction of Chesterfield Grove and Melbourne Grove. Vehicles also enter and leave via Melbourne Grove to avoid Lordship Lane (For example two at 9.00 am this morning, entering from Melbourne Grove) No doubt their drivers are under pressure to make their deliveries on time and do this because the entrance is often blocked by vehicles from the car wash and badly parked cars. As a responsible company Marks and Spencers should deal with this nuisance and potential hazard and do what they claimed they would do instead of allowing this unsatisfactory situation to continue. Could any else who feels that this is problem please raise their concerns with Marks and Spencers and local councillors?
