Kentish Town Green Mobility Hubs

Overview

We want our streets to be safe spaces for you to walk and cycle for everyday trips, for businesses to be able to flourish, to reduce carbon emissions from road transport and for you to be breathing cleaner air. We also 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.

These aspirations are even more important in Kentish Town because 65% of households do not own a car and rely on walking, cycling and public transport to make their journeys. Providing infrastructure and improvements that enable more people to safely and easily use sustainable, low-cost, low-emission and active transport options (such as walking, wheeling, cycling and scooting) is more important than ever.

For these reasons, Camden Council has submitted a bid to the Levelling Up Fund and secured funding to implement a series of projects aimed at making Kentish Town a more sustainable neighbourhood, through tackling health inequalities and improving health and wellbeing for residents. This involves different projects that contribute to making Kentish Town a more climate resilient and healthy place to live. One of these projects includes the introduction of a network of Green Mobility Hubs in and around Kentish Town. We are now consulting on these hubs and more detail on these proposals is set out below:

What is a Green Mobility Hub?

A green mobility hub is a recognisable place/point that offers a mix of sustainable and active shared travel options, which can include shared bikes, car clubs, electric vehicle charging point, cargo bikes and e-scooters. Green mobility Hubs can also include other community features such as cycle parking, seating, planting and other amenities designed to improve public space for residents and visitors.

Green mobility Hubs provide a sustainable, accessible 24-hour alternative service to private car ownership. The image below shows an example of what a Green Mobility Hub could look like.

We want to create Green Mobility Hubs in and around Kentish Town, combining a mix of shared, environmentally sustainable travel options at each location. 

What are we proposing in Kentish Town?

We are now proposing to introduce six Green Mobility Hubs at six locations in and around Kentish Town, in the following locations:

• Talacre Road
• Kelly Street
• Queens Crescent
• Holmes Road
• Malden Crescent
• Lamble Street

These sites have been identified by investigating a wide range of factors including:

• Connectivity to other transport modes
• Current bay use and infrastructure
• Proximity to residences and businesses
• Shared transport access and demand in local area
• Choice of sustainable transport modes
• Safety

We are proposing to deliver the Green Mobility Hubs by converting space previously used for private parking or vehicle access to green spaces and additional facilities that can benefit the local community.

 Locations of the mobility hubs being consulted on 

Talacre Road proposals

This Green Mobility Hub is proposed at the southern end of Talacre Road where it meets Prince of Wales Road. 

The hub would be closely located to bus stops on Prince of Wales Road and approximately 150 metres from Kentish Town West overground station, providing a great opportunity to connect the Green Mobility Hub on Talacre Road with different methods of transport in the surrounding area.

A Green Mobility Hub here would provide the opportunity to introduce more sustainable transport options as well as improving the look and feel of the area. Proposed features to be included at this site are:

• Two new Electric Vehicle charging bays with dropped kerbs for accessibility
• Two new cycle hangars
• A new E-scooter and cycle hire bay
• New cycle stands
• New Green Mobility Hub plinth with a local map to help people find their way around
• Low level planting beds and communal planting area.

10 Residents’ bays would be removed, along with two Doctor Surgery bays.

You can see an image (artists’ impression) on how the site could look below and a drawing is attached at the bottom of this page which shows the proposed changes in more detail.

Queen’s Crescent proposals

At Queen’s Crescent, there is an opportunity to improve public realm space which is currently underused and improve how the area looks and feels.

The hub would be closely located to bus stops on Prince of Wales Road and approximately 300 metres from Chalk Farm underground station, providing a great opportunity to connect the Green Mobility Hub on Queen’s Crescent with different methods of transport in the surrounding area. The two disabled bays currently in this area would be retained but moved, 30metres along the street.

Currently there are limited active travel options, and a Green Mobility Hub would provide the opportunity to expand on the sustainable transport options available. Proposed features to be included at this site are:

• Two new Electric Vehicle bays with dropped kerbs for enhanced accessibility
• A new e-scooter and cycle hire bay
• A new cycle hangar
• New Green Mobility Hub plinth with a local map to help people find their way around
• Seating, planting and rain garden features subject to further surveys. A rain garden is an area with plants that helps to soak up rainwater and prevent local flooding.

Seven Residents’ bays would be removed.

A drawing is attached at the bottom of this page which shows the proposed changes on Queen’s Crescent. You can see an image (artists’ impression) on how the site could look below.

Kelly Street proposal

This Green Mobility Hub is proposed at the western end of Kelly Street.

This Green Mobility Hub would be closely located to bus stops on Prince of Wales Road and approximately 200 metres from Kentish Town West overground station providing a great opportunity to connect the Green Mobility Hub on Kelly Street with different methods of transport in the surrounding area. The motorcycle bay currently located on Kelly Street would be relocated close to its existing location on Castlehaven road.

Currently there are limited active travel options in this area, and a Green Mobility Hub would provide the opportunity to expand on these options and improve the look and feel of the area. Proposed features to include at this site are:

• A new e-scooter and cycle hire bay
• New cycle stands and cycle maintenance stand
• A new Santander docking station
• Planting and rain garden features, subject to additional surveys. A rain garden is an area with plants that helps to soak up rainwater and prevent local flooding.
• New seating
• New Green Mobility Hub plinth with a local map to help people find their way around

• Space for a cargo-bike hire bay in the future

 

Nine Residents’ bays would be removed.

You can see an image (artists’ impression) below on how the site could look and a drawing is attached at the bottom of this page which shows the proposed changes on Kelly Street in more detail.

Holmes Road proposals

At Holmes Road, there is an opportunity to improve the use of space and the look and feel of the area.

The Green Mobility Hub would be closely located to bus stops on Prince of Wales Road and Kentish Town Road and approximately 500 metres from Kentish Town underground station providing a great opportunity to connect the Green Mobility Hub on Holmes Road with different modes of transport, in the surrounding area.

Currently there are limited active travel options, and a Green Mobility Hub would provide the opportunity to introduce more sustainable transport options to the area. Proposed features to be included at this site are:

• One new Electric Vehicle Bay with dropped kerbs for enhanced accessibility
• A new e-scooter and cycle hire bay
• A new cycle hangar
• New planting beds
• New Green Mobility Hub plinth with a local map to help people find their way around

Three Paid For bays would be removed.

A drawing is attached at the bottom of this page which shows the proposed changes on Holmes Road.

Malden Crescent proposals

At Malden Crescent, there is an opportunity to improve the use of space and the look and feel of the area.

The Green Mobility Hub would be closely located to bus stops on Malden Crescent and Prince of Wales Road, approximately 250 metres from Kentish Town West overground station and 400m from Chalk Farm station, providing a great opportunity to connect the Green Mobility Hub on Malden Crescent with different methods of transport, in the surrounding area.

Currently there are limited active travel options in this area, and a Green Mobility Hub would provide the opportunity to expand and incorporate other mobility options. Proposed features to be included at this site are:

• A relocated e-scooter and cycle hire bay and two relocated car club bays (both on Malden Crescent)
• New cycle stands
• A new cycle hangar
• New seating
• New Green Mobility Hub plinth with a local map to help people find their way around
• Planting beds

 

Two Residents’ bays would be removed.

The two existing car clubs will be retained and relocated close to their current location on Malden Crescent.

A drawing is attached at the bottom of this page which shows the proposed changes on Malden Crescent.

Lamble Street proposals

At Lamble Street, there is an opportunity to improve the use of space and improve the look and feel of the area. The Green Mobility Hub would be closely located to bus stops on Mansfield Road, and approximately 200 metres from Gospel Oak overground station, providing a great opportunity to connect the Green Mobility Hub on Lamble Street with different modes of transport, in the surrounding area.

Currently there are limited active travel options, and a Green Mobility Hub would provide the opportunity to incorporate other sustainable transport options. Proposed features to be included at this site are:

• One new Electric Vehicle bays with dropped kerbs for enhanced accessibility
• A new e-scooter and cycle hire bay
• A new cycle hangar
• New Green Mobility Hub plinth with a local map to help people find their way around
• Planting beds

 

Three Residents’ bays would be removed.

A drawing is attached at the bottom of this consultation page which shows the proposed changes on Lamble Street.

Why your views matter

Your views matter to support us in making a decision on whether to install Green Mobility Hubs around Kentish Town.

After the consultation, we will carefully consider the responses we receive, alongside other information including relevant data, safety audits and policy contexts.

A decision report will then 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.

We will review whether any adjustments to the designs are needed and, if a decision is taken to approve the scheme, the final designs would be published as part of the decision report.

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