Southwark Living Streets

Southwark Living Streets has been working closely with the Camberwell Renewal Team and SE5 Forum to pull together all the ideas that people have had to improve Camberwell for pedestrians and cyclists.

These ideas can be seen in this Powerpoint file. Please do have a look at it and give us your comments.

As a report – SE5 Plan-08Jul09

As a presentation – SE5 Plan-PRESENTATION-27Jul09

Please find the minutes of the meeting in this Word file. SLS Meeting Minutes-18Jun09

Southwark Living Streets took part in the recent consultation by Southwark Council into how Peckham might develop over the next few years. Please find our comments in the Word file below.

Future Peckham SLS Response-18May09

Please find the minutes of our May meeting in the Word file below:

SLS Meeting Minutes-21May09

Please find the minutes of our meeting on 16th April in the word file SLS Meeting Minutes-16Apr09

There is a lot of interest in the idea of cycle superhighways in London. The Mayor has proposed that a number of these routes will be created to offer cyclists safe, efficient routes into London from different parts of the city.

We feel that Southwark is perfectly suited for such a route and we have teamed up with Southwark Cyclists to produce our own ideas for a cycling superhighway in Southwark.

The route would run north-south and connect the towns and villages of Southwark with the main bridges across the river. Please have a look at our proposals and tell us what you think.

Southwark Cycling Superhighway Proposal-21Mar09

We recently responded to the Canada Water Area Action Plan from Southwark Council. Our comments which were made jointly with Southwark Cyclists are in this Word file.Canada Water AAP-SLS&SC Comments-21Mar09

Please find the minutes of our meeting in the attached Word file. SLS Meeting Minutes-19Mar09

We want to hear from you if:

• You support our campaign for sustainable transport in Southwark (see the post below).
• There are places in Southwark that you like or think should be improved.
• You want more information about what we do.

There are 2 ways to get in touch:

1. Send us a comment (just click on this link Comment).

2. Send an email to email SLS Secretary Jeremy Leach jeremy@southwarklivingstreets.org.uk

If you want to send us a picture or video clip just attach it to an email to this address.

If you support the campaign we’ll put you on the Campaign Supporters page along with your comments.

If there are places you want to improve in Southwark, we’ll put your comments, pictures and video clips in the appropriate Southwark Community Council area (listed along the top of this page).

Future Southwark…

The Campaign for Sustainable Transport

What?

• Civilised town centres
• A 20mph speed limit
• More walking and cycling
• Re-allocation of road space.

How & Why?

Southwark Living Streets & Southwark Cyclists want to…

• Revitalise our town centres by making them much more attractive places – for visiting, shopping, meeting, and simply passing the time. To take the Walworth Road approach and make streets safer, and much easier to cross – by reducing vehicle speeds, widening pavements, providing more seating and creating a greener, more civilised environment with more trees.

Wider pavements, trees and cycle parking on the Walworth Rd

• Reduce road casualties by working towards a speed limit of 20mph on all roads in Southwark. Most casualties occur on our main roads. Many pedestrian and cyclists casualties are caused by the excessive speed of cars, vans, motorbikes and lorries. For places to flourish, cyclists and pedestrians need to feel safe and be safe. This needs to include the removal of all roadside guardrailing and other features that encourage higher speeds. The default speed limit for the borough should be 20mph.

• Encourage walking and cycling in Southwark. Cycling is popular now in Southwark but not nearly as popular as it should be. We want a townscape that encourages more people to cycle throughout their lives. In many towns and cities in north-west Europe a quarter or more journeys are made by bicycle. Dedicated and protected lanes on or close to the main arterial roads between town centres make cycling an efficient and attractive option for both commuters and less confident cyclists. The provision of large amounts of secure parking at the workplace and other destinations raises the profile of cycling and makes using a bike a practical option for all types of journey.

Based on the Northern European experience, we want:

• a network of safe cycle routes along or close to the main roads across Southwark
• cycle parking provision at all destinations
• cycle contraflows down all one-way streets.

Protected cycle lane on Cable St in Tower Hamlets

• Encourage a re-evaluation of the amount of space given to motor vehicles. There are many places where roads take up inappropriately large amounts of space (the Bricklayers Arms flyover and roundabout is a notable example). These places need to be reshaped and rehumanised so that motor vehicles are able to circulate but not dominate the urban environment.

Bricklayers Arms Flyover

Bricklayers Arms Roundabout

What you can do…

• Join us and come along to one of our monthly meetings.

• Write to your local Councillor and MP to ask what s/he is doing to promote and support walking and cycling in Southwark/ask him/her to support the campaign.

• Write to your local paper and ask them to support the campaign.

• Contact Southwark Council to praise initiatives that make the streetscape more attractive and safer to all users – tell us and them about the places that you think are particularly good or that most need improving.

If you would like to know a little more about this, we have produced a document called Connected Southwark which you can see by clicking on the link below.

Connected Southwark-pdf

Southwark Living Streets & Southwark Cyclists – local pedestrians and cyclists working together for better places and a better future.