Parliament Hill - Safe and healthy Streets 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 you to be breathing cleaner air, to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles and for businesses to flourish.

We want our communities to be prepared for the changing climate and provide a lasting legacy of greener, safer and healthier travel with streets resilient against climate change.

Example Rain Garden

Why your views matter

In 2021, the Parliament Hill area suffered from significant flooding.

We are adding more plants and trees across our streets to help minimise water runoff. One way to do this is to increase the amount of on street water storage to soak up water when severe rains arrive, which the climate crisis makes more likely.

To reduce risk in the Parliament Hill area, we’ve identified an opportunity to install two new “rain gardens”. Rain gardens capture and store rainwater, act as great local habitats for wildlife, and improve the look and feel of an area. Each rain garden would replace two car parking spaces and be similar in design to the image on the other side of this leaflet.

We also know how important it is to reduce disruption through roads being dug up. We’re therefore proposing to work in partnership with Cadent Gas to add in the new rain gardens while they carry out their own work to upgrade metal gas pipes to safer and more reliable plastic pipes. This would save 2 weeks of disruption. Cadent’s work will begin in October, so we are consulting with you now to hear about what you think about us adding rain gardens ahead of their work.

To view the plans and find out more about what the 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 officer observations, consultation responses, relevant policies, and other data/information.

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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 officer observations, consultation responses, relevant policies, and other data/information.