Mount Pleasant - New Cycle Hire Docking Station Consultation

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 the Mount Pleasant area because 78.4% 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. We also know many of our residents are excluded from cycling due to lack of access to a bike. To help ease those problems, we are continuing to work with Transport for London (TfL) to expand the existing network of Santander cycle hire docking stations in the Borough.

Our Transport Strategy and Cycling Action Plan outline measures to support cycle hire options in the Borough to increase availability and access to bikes for residents and visitors. We continue to work together with TfL to expand their network of Santander cycle hire docking stations across the Borough.

Policy 2c of our Transport Strategy demonstrates our commitment to “develop and implement a range of initiatives that promote and provide attractive, convenient, and safe alternatives to private cars and other forms of motor traffic.”

What are we consulting on?

We have secured funding via a legal agreement to provide a new Santander cycle hire docking station from the Postmark development (land west of the Royal Mail sorting office at Mount Pleasant). We are now consulting on our proposal to add a docking station with 22 docking points on Mount Pleasant. The docking station would be located on the street adjacent to Mouse Tail Coffee Farringdon on the north side of Mount Pleasant near the junction with Phoenix Place and Warner Street.

The proposals would also require the following minor parking changes on Mount Pleasant and Elm Street:

• Removal of 11.5 metres of pay by phone parking place on Mount Pleasant
• Removal of 4.6 metres of resident permit holders only parking place on Mount Pleasant (relocation to Elm Street)
• Removal of 6.6 metres of single yellow line on Mount Pleasant
• Replacement of 5 metres of pay by phone parking place on Elm Street with 5 metres of resident permit holders only parking place (relocation from Mount Pleasant)
• Overall, the proposals would involve the removal of 16.5 metres of pay by phone parking place and 6.6 metres of single yellow line

A drawing is attached in the Related Section at the bottom of this consultation page which shows the proposed changes on Mount Pleasant and Elm Street.

About the proposed Santander cycle hire docking station

The proposed cycle hire docking station with 22 docking points would provide a sustainable and healthy alternative to motor vehicles and would help more journeys to be taken by residents and visitors to the Borough by bike, contributing to our Cycling Action Plan targets to increase cycling.

Photo of an example cycle hire docking station on Coram Street

Why your views matter

Your views are important in providing feedback our proposals, we want to make sure our streets work for everyone so we welcome your responses to the consultation questionnaire.

The Cycle Hire docking station would help to increase the sustainable transport options in this part of Camden for residents and visitors.

We currently have 65 Santander cycle hire docking stations across Camden and have committed to working with Transport for London to extend the network where we have the funding.

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