Redhill Street and Cumberland Market are currently used as a cut through between Albany Street and Robert Street. Furthermore, Regents’ Park Estate, including Redhill Street and Cumberland Market, has been significantly impacted by the construction of High Speed 2 (HS2), including noise, dust and road closure disruptions, making the area less enjoyable to live in. We have been working with HS2 to address these impacts. We successfully secured funding from the HS2 Road Safety Fund for improvements to road safety and to make it safer and easier to walk and cycle, we will shortly be launching this fund.
In addition, the Covid-19 pandemic changed how communities live, travel and work. We want to transform our streets so they have more, safe space for everyone to walk and cycle, for children to get to and from school safely, for you to be breathing cleaner air, to reduce carbon emissions from road transport, and for businesses to flourish. We want to ensure that our streets support recovery from the pandemic and provide a lasting legacy of greener, safer, healthier travel.
We want to make Camden’s streets safer by discouraging car journeys to schools and green areas so that everyone, and especially the most vulnerable residents of the borough, can enjoy healthier and more vibrant local areas.
We are currently carrying out a joint consultation on proposals to 1) trial a healthy school street on Redhill Street, outside Christ Church Primary School, and 2) introduce permanent road safety and pedestrian improvements on Cumberland Market. The proposals provide road safety and traffic management changes, which will benefit vulnerable road users, particularly school children.
The proposed changes include
These proposals have been developed in response to feedback and suggestions received from the local community requesting road safety improvements on Redhill Street and Cumberland Market. They have also been informed by traffic data for this area, which indicates that Redhill Street and Cumberland Market are currently used by motor vehicles as a cut through between Robert Street and Albany Street.
Exemptions: If the scheme is implemented, Redhill Street residents would be able to apply for an exemption that enables them to travel, by car, in and out of Redhill Street, via Albany Street, when the timed closures are in place. Others eligible to apply for an exemption include Blue Badge holders who live within the zone, Blue Badge holding parents/carers for a child at the school, and parents of a child at the school that has a disability preventing them from walking or cycling to school. Access for emergency vehicles, refuse collection vehicles and school transport operators will not be affected by the Healthy School Street.
More information about the proposals is provided in the information sheet and the consultation drawing at the bottom of this consultation page. To share your views, click on the link, below, to the online consultation questionnaire.
After the consultation, we will carefully consider the responses, alongside other information and policy, to help us in deciding on whether or not to progress the scheme.
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.
As the consultation is now closed,your views, and those of everyone who contributes to this consultation, will be analysed and considered, alongside relevant data available on the scheme and in light of how the scheme aligns with our current policy objectives, in order to put forward recommendations on whether to proceed with the proposals. A summary of this analysis will be provided in the decision report, and will be made available on the Camden Council website in due course.
If you have any other ideas for improvements to make travel safer and healthier in this area, please go to Safe Travel Camden Map to make some suggestions.
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