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Re: Manor Road, the road used to be nice and quiet but recent changes in traffic in nearby streets made it busier and noisier. Can’t be closed to traffic as it leads into LBR. Also lots of littering. On the plus side odd numbers have huge gardens and good orientation.
In summary: I would choose a quieter side road
frankohara-
It’s only the top half of Manor Road that’s become more of a rat run; the lower half is still quiet.
Agreed about the community aspect of shorter, LTN’ed streets. We had to campaign to get the end of ours closed off, as the modal closure half way down Vicarage Road would have turned ours into a rat run; the WhatsApp group followed shortly afterwards.
Now most of the roads parallel to ours have been locked off also. It’s fabulous, but there was a lot of vocal resistance from some residents, including several people repeatedly pouring bleach into the new planters acting as LTN roadblocks… mind boggling.
ectoplasmosis
Re Neighbours, there are some really nice streets round our way including ours that have street whatsapps, annual street party etc. Often shorter ones or ones with LTN style interventions.
However my impression of some of the streets with bigger houses such as Vicarage and Manor Rd is that a lot more of them are flats and also the streets are much longer so there is less of a community feel. That's just my assumption though, not actually based on hard evidence.