There’s still more than a week to take part in the public consultation on the plans to turn the area into a safer, cleaner and greener neighbourhood.
In a healthy neighbourhood, reduced traffic and speeding means people can live more active lives, where walking, wheeling, scooting, and cycling is convenient, pleasant, and the preferred choice when possible. It also means removing traffic that is using the neighbourhood’s residential streets as a cut-through.
It also enables the creation of kerbside spaces for people, not just cars, and which support local businesses. This includes new cycle parking, parklets where people can sit, rest and play, and planting new trees & other greenery.
Lambeth has identified Stockwell Gardens as a good location for a healthy neighbourhood scheme because:
- Many streets in the area experience high volumes of cut-through traffic. These small local roads were not designed to be through routes for motor traffic.
- Cut-through traffic increases road danger, including issues with speeding. In other healthy neighbourhoods, speeding has typically reduced by 75%.
- Over 65% of local households do not own a car or van, and there are excellent public transport links in the area.
- Just 5% of the kerbside is used sustainably, such as for cycle parking or electric vehicle charging. Our target for Lambeth as a whole is 25%.
The scheme is an update to Lambeth’s Healthy Streets programme, which uses interventions and public space improvements to help make neighbourhoods safer, cleaner and greener. The designs are based on previous engagement with local people and organisations in 2023 and 2024, in addition to analysis of data on traffic, travel patterns and air quality.
Initially, the council is proposing to introduce a healthy neighbourhood on a trial basis. Before we make this change, we want your feedback on the proposed design of this healthy neighbourhood.
The four-week consultation process on the proposed design will end on 28 April. Take the survey and contribute your ideas.
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