Swiss Cottage/Adelaide Road - building schools for future - public realm improvements

Overview

We are seeking your views on proposals to implement two measures that would help facilitate the operation of two new purpose built schools. The schools are situated together and being constructed on the corner of Avenue Road and Adelaide Road in close proximity to Swiss Cottage. The schoolsthemselves are being provided as part of Camden’s Building Schools for Future initiative.

These two initial proposed measures will have some impact on the existing parking layout on the surrounding streets within the vicinity of the school but there will be no change to the overall amount of parking space that will be available to residents.

The first measure is to remove the redundant school access road and build out an area of Harley Street at the junction of King Henry's Road. This is required to improve the side/rear entrance area of the new UCL Academy. The UCL Academy raised safety concerns for their visitors and thismeasure will reduce the pedestrian crossing distance of Harley Road at the junction of King Henry’sRoad, which is currently very wide. In order to implement this measure it will be necessary to relocate a single resident’s parking space from in front of the new school access to a position further south along Harley Road. The details of the measures can are shown on the right hand-side of the accompanying plan, situated over-leaf.

The second measure is to relocate a stretch of residents parking on Avenue Road from its existing placement to a new location slightly further north which facilitates a change to the new Special Educational Needs School’s access requirements. Please see the left hand side of the accompanying plan, situated over-leaf.

If the proposals are agreed, works will be carried out in July 2012. We would also like to make you aware that there will be a follow up consultation regarding a new pedestrian crossing on Adelaide Road to help with access to the schools. The design of this crossing is still developing, so when we have more details, a separate consultation about this measure will be conducted later on this year.

What happens next

Thank you for taking the time to take part in the consultation, which closed in June 2012.  We will shortly provide an update on the progress of the next stages of the decision-making process.