Since launching the scheme in August 2020 we have been reviewing and analysing all of the feedback and data collected, including:
reviewed comments on the Commonplace website read and noted emails sent to the project inboxes been monitoring the area to gather important data such as the number of people driving, walking and cycling in and around the LTN made changes to the scheme in response to your feedback to improve the scheme developed the next stage of engagement to increase opportunities for community involvement
What you have told us
Here are some of the issues local people have told us about and what we’ve done or are doing to address them:
Care of planters: We are reviewing our planting maintenance programme so that the planters are well looked after. We will be working with the local community to develop this in the future. Better signs: We have made signs clearer and included additional signs at locations where some drivers were getting confused. People driving through filters: We have had reports of people removing bollards and driving through some modal filters. Our teams have been replacing bollards and we will continue to monitor all locations. Increase in journey times and the impact on buses: To understand how journey times may have changed we are collecting and analysing traffic data in and around the LTN area. Pollution levels in the area: By reducing the number of vehicles travelling through the LTN and with more people choosing to walk and cycle locally air quality should improve. We have air quality monitors at local schools and at several other key locations to measure air quality. Maintaining access for emergency services: The Metropolitan Police, London Fire Brigade and London Ambulance are statutory consultees. This means we have a legal duty to consult with them and their feedback has informed the design of the experimental scheme. To help emergency services navigate the area we have given the main satellite navigation/street mapping providers information on all the changes and we will continue to work with them to ensure that the scheme meets their requirements. Addressing road safety: We are collecting data to monitor traffic movements and are looking into road safety issues raised. However, residents have also told us that some streets within the LTN have seen a reduction in speeds and fewer cars racing down streets. Accessibility for disabled people: We will be reaching out to groups that represent disabled people and writing to residents to find out about their experience of the LTN. Requests for more improvements in the area: Due to limited funding available, we have logged all suggestions for significant changes, such as pocket parks, more trees and greening, and further improvements for pedestrians and cyclists, and would look to take some of these ideas forward as part of a possible permanent scheme, subject to funding. In the meantime, we are looking at including more cycle stands, residents cycle hangars and litter bins in response to what you’ve told us. Requests to include more roads within the LTN: Both boroughs have worked together to extend LTN Area 1 to include Colegrave Road and LTN Area 2 to include the Sidney Road, Bective Road and Centre Road triangle as residents had raised traffic and road safety issues. Continue to tell us if your street or neighbourhood would benefit from an LTN so that we can consider these for future schemes. Requests for improved cycle routes: As part of developing a possible permanent scheme and if funding becomes available, we will look at improving cycle routes such as contra-flow cycle lanes, new cycle signs and better crossing points.
What’s next?
The comments made on our engagement website (Commonplace) have helped us make immediate changes to the scheme and understand people’s early experience of the new road layout.
We now need to understand:
how local people feel about the scheme more than six months after the launch of the scheme if the area feels safer, quieter or less polluted how people travel locally and further afield if the area would benefit from some further quick and easy changes, such as bike stands and dropped kerbs to make streets more accessible what else we could do to encourage people to walk, cycle, scoot or use public transport more often what else we could do to help address concerns over pollution, congestion and road safety, which would feed into the design for a possible permanent scheme.We will publicise future engagement activities on this website to help us gather this information, and engage with residents, businesses and community groups in the local area on specific topics of interest to them.
All this information will help us decide if the scheme will become permanent and if so, what the permanent scheme could look like. A decision on the scheme will be made before the 18-month period has ended.