Wandsworth Council is warning that August's Olympic cycle race rehearsal could cause traffic chaos and has called on Transport for London (TfL) to rethink its plans.

The London Surrey Cycle Classic on August 14 (Sunday) will cause the closure of a number of roads around Putney and TfL is partially suspending or closing three tube lines for maintenance work.

TfL has sent out letters to residents and businesses warning them they face disruption, but the council is concerned that these lack details.

The council is urging TfL to make more detailed information available about the road closures and diversions and reconsider the tube suspensions.

The District Line will be suspended between Edgware Road and Earls Court and the Hammersmith and City line will be suspended between Baker Street and Hammersmith, with the Circle Line being completely closed.

Cabinet member for environment and culture, Councillor Jonathan Cook, said: "We welcome the Olympics, and understand why this test race needs to be held, but it's only a few weeks away and shops and restaurants need to ensure they can receive deliveries.

"People need confirmation now of exactly what closures and diversions will be in place. TfL and games organisers LOCOG need to firm up these plans and get this information out there.

"They also need to think very carefully about the chaos likely to be caused by these tube closures. Why suspend tube lines on the very same day that people will be pouring into south west London to watch the race? The public transport system must be fully operational."

About 100 cyclists will take part in the race with the route stretching from the Mall, through south west London, over Putney Bridge and through Richmond Park to Box Hill and back again.

Roads along the route will be subject to closures and diversions from very early in the morning until late afternoon, with Putney High Street, the Upper Richmond Road and Priory Lane being completely closed to traffic all day.

But a TfL spokesperson said: “London is used to hosting successful major events and we will do so again. Test events, such as the ones this August, are vital to the ensure transport and the Capital are fully prepared for the summer of 2012 and we will be working to keep disruption to a minimum.

“Planned engineering work on the transport network is carefully planned factoring in events taking place across the Capital and the vast majority of Tube services in the areas affected by road closures for this event will be running on the weekend of 13 and 14 August. Londoners and visitors to the city are, of course, urged to check before they travel.”