Households have shared what it is like to live next to one of the busiest and noisiest roundabouts in the city. The Crown Roundabout connects some of Nottingham's main roads, including Wollaton Road, Western Boulevard and Middleton Boulevard, and thousands of cars travel on it every day.
However, whilst the roundabout is great for commuters, it is not so great for the people living next to it. Residents say that the roads are constantly busy, and although they get used to the noise, the levels of traffic and speed of vehicles remains a concern.
Warehouse worker, Barry Wilkinson, 62, has lived next to the roundabout for 38 years. He said: "I've got used to it, but obviously there's that many accidents and what have you, and it's difficult for parking as there's no parking spaces.
"It's always noisy. Obviously you can't hear too much inside as we've got double glazed windows."
Barry added that it was busy "all the time", but that the "travel links are good, and it's good to go into Nottingham and back and to the hospital." Speaking about her thoughts on living at the roundabout, mum, Angela Murray, 37, said: "It's horrible because the road is too fast and I've got children to worry about. We've been here about 10 years and it's got worse recently as they widened the road a few years back."
Gesturing to an already busy road, she added: "It's worse than this usually." When asked about the noise from the traffic, Angela explained: "It doesn't affect me as I have the telly on but it does really bother some people."
A 45-year-old in the area, who did not wish to be named, said: "It's just the build up of traffic. What does it for me is how difficult it is to get on and off the drive, it is really dangerous.
"We had our pavement dropped, but everyone uses it, as coming off here is really dangerous, and there's been a couple of accidents lately and one here outside the house. It happens quite a lot."
She added: "I've got my concerns about the roundabout. The widening made it a lot worse, it hasn't always been like this."
Student, Chris Collins, 19, moved into a student property off the roundabout at the start of the academic year. He said: "We thought it would be a lot worse when we moved in but it's not that bad. When we have the door shut, it's fine.
"The roundabout is fine and there's a path underneath it that makes it easy to get to lectures without waiting at the crossings. Getting out in the car can be difficult if it's busy, but getting back in isn't too difficult as we go on the pavement and reverse in."
A 40-year-old in the area, who did not wish to be named, said: "It's bad. Cars cannot get out and you have to be really careful. It's not safe.
"It's always busy and it is really hard to take out the car from here as there's the bus stop near as well. Sometimes people park there car on other roads and walk here."
Speaking about the noise, she explained she no longer used her front windows, "to stop it being as noisy."
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