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Two separate estate agents' shops crashed into in Brockley Road in a matter of months, one twice.
https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/brockley-residents-say-its-only-20876429
Bryan & Keegan's is on the stretch of Brockley Road in Crofton Park that has seen a nice streetscape scheme installed, but it's much too short to be effective. It should be extended in both directions from the pedestrian crossing it surrounds, as features like this need to be longer to be more noticeable. There's always someone who speeds and doesn't know the area. (I've often seen people speeding there late at night. I'm sure they speed at other times, too, but obviously less when it's busier.) It's a really good stretch of high street and I hope they give it more TLC.
Acorn Estate Agents is on that atrociously badly-laid out roundabout junction of Brockley Road and Brockley Grove, which not only has appalling road surface at the moment but I've also seen poor driver behaviour there on a regular basis. It's one of those junctions undoubtedly laid out in the time of the horse and cart, probably with a watering trough, where horse-drawn vehicles could be turned around. When mass motorisation hit, many of these junctions, often with fairly odd layouts, became crash magnets because of unclear priority and too much space to drive badly in, and many were converted to roundabouts.
What needs to happen here is for the spearpoint junction of Brockley Grove to be closed and the junction moved to meet Brockley Road at right angles between Rosie's Flower Shop and the hut that Acorn Estate Agents is currently in. This would make for much more controlled turning behaviour.