Crowndale Road - Safe and healthy Streets Consultation

Overview

We want our streets to be safe spaces for you to walk and cycle for every day trips, for businesses to be able to flourish, to reduce carbon emissions from road transport and for you to be breathing cleaner air. We want to ensure that when we invest in our streets it provides a lasting legacy of greener, safer, healthier travel, helping us deliver our wider Transport Strategy objectives.

As part of the Somers Town Future Neighbourhoods 2030 programme, being funded by the Mayor of London, we have developed proposals for safe and healthy streets improvements in the Crowndale Road area. A map of all the transport projects proposed as part of the Somers Town Future Neighbourhoods 2030 Programme is provided at the bottom of this consultation page.

We are now consulting on the following proposed, permanent changes in the Crowndale Road area:

Cycling changes:

• Segregated cycle lanes (where cyclists are separated from traffic using either stepped cycle tracks or kerb separation) in both directions on Crowndale Road, beginning east of the junction with Bayham Street and ending at the junction with Royal College Street – to make it safer and easier to cycle here
• Upgrading the existing zebra crossing (between the junctions with Camden Street and Royal College Street) to a raised parallel zebra crossing for cyclists and pedestrians, to make it easier to access the parade of shops on foot or by bike
• New cycle parking stands outside businesses on Crowndale Road – to provide more space for people to park their bicycles outside local businesses
• Two new bike hangars on College Place, providing safe and secure cycle parking for residents

Bus Stop changes:

• A new design for the bus stop near Bayham Street (Stop K): a shared use bus boarder (SUBB) bus stop design where cyclists and bus users share the space in the cycle lane next to the bus shelter
• New designs for the bus stops east of Camden Street (Stop N and Stop U). These Bus Stop Bypass designs help keep cyclists separate from traffic with separate space for cyclists behind the bus stop and crossings over the cycle lanes for bus users to access the bus shelters. The designs will also incorporate new areas of planting

Loading, Parking and Road Marking changes:

• Converting two resident permit parking bays on Oakley Square (north) to disabled parking bays, to help facilitate parking for disabled people in the area including those visiting local organisations and businesses in the area A new loading bay on College Place, replacing existing single yellow line. This is to serve the rear access of businesses on Crowndale Road and the loading bay would operate at all times
• Replacing single yellow lines with double yellow lines on Crowndale Road and College Place to prevent the carriageway and cycle lane from being blocked by vehicles – see scheme designs for exact locations

Junction changes:

• No junction changes are proposed as part of this consultation. However, we are working with Transport for London (TfL) to consider proposals for improving cycling provision at the Camden Street / Crowndale Road junction. A separate update on these proposals will be provided in due course

Greening changes:

• Three new trees on College Place
• A new rain garden on the footway on Crowndale Road, to the west of the junction with Royal College Place
• New areas of planting on the bus stop passenger waiting areas proposed as part of the Bus Stop Bypass designs for Bus Stops N and U on Crowndale Road

Other changes

• Making improvements to the look and feel of the area including new benches and decluttering the pavement space, for example by removing unnecessary guard railings

More information about these proposals is available in the Information Sheet and   scheme design plans that are attached to the bottom of this webpage. We have also attached a photo guide that shows what some of the measures being consulted on would look like, such as segregated cycle lanes and shared use bus boarders (SUBBS).

An illustration of what the proposed changes could look like, showing the area on Crowndale Road, to the west of the junction with Royal College Street, is provided below and as an attachment at the bottom of this webpage.

Why your views matter

As 69% of households in Camden (73% in the Somers Town and St Pancras Ward) do not own a car and public transport usage remains lower than pre-pandemic, we know that providing infrastructure and improvements that enable safe and easy walking, wheeling, cycling and scooting on key routes within the borough, such as Crowndale Road, are more important than ever. Supporting and encouraging those who can walk and cycle, by creating safer streets, will ensure that there is more space available on public transport and on our roads for those who need it the most.

Your views are important in providing feedback both on the proposed scheme as a whole and specific elements of it, and we would therefore welcome your responses to the consultation questionnaire.

To view the plans and find out more about what each proposal would achieve, click on the links in the Related Section at the bottom of this page.

After the consultation, a decision report will be produced and published online, via our website. Local residents and stakeholders will be notified of the outcome. The report will consider a broad range of information including consultation responses, feedback received, relevant policies and other data/information including surveys and monitoring information.

All of this information will be considered in making a recommendation in the report about whether or not to implement the scheme. Should a decision be made to proceed, we would implement the changes under a permanent Traffic Management Order (TMO). If approved for construction, we would then carefully monitor the changes to make sure it operates effectively

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What happens next

After the consultation, a decision report will be produced and published online, via our website. Local residents and stakeholders will be notified of the outcome. The report will consider a broad range of information including consultation responses, feedback received, relevant policies and other data/information including surveys and monitoring information.

All of this information will be considered in making a recommendation in the report about whether or not to implement the scheme. Should a decision be made to proceed, we would implement the changes under a permanent Traffic Management Order (TMO). If approved for construction, we would then carefully monitor the changes to make sure it operates effectively