Lincoln's Inn Field's - Holborn Liveable Neighbourhood STARter Project Consultation

Overview

We want our streets to have more safe space for everyone to walk and cycle, for children to get to and from school safely and healthily, for businesses to be able to flourish, to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles and for you to be breathing cleaner air.

We want our streets to provide a lasting legacy of greener, safer, healthier travel.

As 64% of households in Camden do not own a car, we know that safe and easy walking, cycling and scooting routes are more important than ever. Supporting and encouraging those who are able to 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.

A Holborn Liveable Neighbourhood STARter project

We want to transform Holborn into a place for people with attractive, healthy, accessible, and safe streets for everyone. To do this we're creating ideas for transforming the area through changes like widening pavements, making some areas car free, improving cycle routes, adding public spaces and plants and trees.

Lincoln's Inn Fields sits in our Holborn Liveable Neighbourhood project area. We are proposing changes for Holborn’s streets through a number of STARter projects – improvements we can deliver in the shorter term to make the area safer and healthier, especially for walking and cycling. For more information on the Liveable Neighbourhood project and to get involved you can visit our website.

West side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields

The Camden Cycle Permeability programme is reducing barriers to cycling. Many streets in the borough are one-way, and connections between key cycle routes and Camden’s cycle network are often disrupted by infrastructure, traffic restrictions, or busy major roads.

The Cycle Permeability programme  makes Camden’s streets more accessible for cyclists and easier to navigate. It does this by allowing two-way cycling on one-way streets and adding cut-throughs where roads are blocked for cyclists. Many of these improvements have been made across the borough in recent years.

The northern and eastern sections of Lincoln’s Inn Fields and Whetstone Park both have one-way traffic systems. These restrictions apply to all vehicles including cycles. We are proposing to introduce two-way cycling on the northern and eastern sections of Lincoln’s Inn Fields and Whetstone Park to enable cyclists to access the wider cycle network. 

We are also proposing to add 2 cycle hangars and an e-scooter/e-bike hire bay on the western section of Lincoln’s Inn Fields. This would mean removing 18.7m of residential parking. However, parking demand in the area is low, and making this change would result in a parking pressure of 20% on Lincoln's Inn Field's with 5 residential parking spaces available compared to only 1 active permit. This is in line with Camden’s 3-Year Delivery Plan for 2025/26 – 2027/28, repurposing road space in favour of healthier, more sustainable modes of travel.

If the proposals are approved, we would make these changes using a permanent Traffic Management Order and carefully monitor any impacts.

A drawing of the proposed changes can be found in the Related section at the bottom of this page. 

Why your views matter

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

We would also love to hear any alternative suggestions or objections you may have to what we are proposing.

To view the plans, 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 officer observations, consultation responses, relevant policies, and other data/information.

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