The West Dulwich Street Improvement trial uses traffic filters to cut air pollution and lower road danger on residential streets, with a particular focus on improving the neighbourhood for local children, the vulnerable and the elderly.
A six-month consultation where residents and businesses can have their say is now open. Visit haveyoursay.lambeth.gov.uk for more information.
The trial has been introduced after residents and businesses called for traffic reduction on their streets, and Lambeth Council began discussing ideas for the local improvements in 2021.
The council then began public engagement a set of initial proposals in April 2023 to get feedback. This included online and face to face sessions with residents and businesses.
Based on this feedback the scheme’s design was significantly changed, including removing two traffic filters, removing three parklets, extending some double yellow lines.
The trial West Dulwich Street Improvements are part of a package of measures proposed by the council to improve the wider area.
Two other projects have recently been consulted on in the area: a proposed Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) and extension of a Healthy Route cycleway that provides a safe walking, wheeling, and cycling connection between West Dulwich and Brockwell Park.
Lambeth Council will monitor streets within the traffic filters and on boundary roads for the duration of the trial period before a final decision is made on whether it becomes permanent.
Cllr Rezina Chowdhury, Lambeth’s Deputy Leader (Sustainable Lambeth and Clean Air), said: “We have worked closely with local people, including residents and businesses, on the trial West Dulwich Street Improvements to improve the local area.
“Lambeth Council is taking bold decisions to make neighbourhoods safer and healthier for everyone, especially young children and the elderly who are the most vulnerable to road danger and the effects of air pollution.
“Our initial engagement identified some concerns with the first designs and these final proposals show significant changes based on that early feedback. We regularly speak to people in the community so they can help shape our proposals and that will continue throughout statutory consultation and the duration of the trial phase.
“We are trying to ensure our streets work for everyone and people are prioritised, but we need the people who live, work and travel through the area to help us achieve our aims of safer, healthier and more climate resilient streets that can be used by everyone without worry about road danger or toxic air.”
