From Brent Council
The council has approved £3 million in Strategic Community Infrastructure Levy (SCIL) funding for a transformative green corridors scheme in Church End and Roundwood. This is a ring-fenced fund that can only be spent on infrastructure, ensuring it is dedicated to projects that benefit the community.
This ambitious project, part of the council’s Green Neighbourhoods initiative, aims to make the area a model of sustainable urban living with major improvements in walking and cycling access, air quality, safety and overall community wellbeing. It will also tackle issues such as fly-tipping and anti-social behaviour, making the area cleaner and safer for residents.
The Church End and Roundwood Green Corridors Scheme will be implemented in phases, each introducing sustainable infrastructure, boosting biodiversity, and creating safer, more inclusive streets. Developed through extensive public engagement, these enhancements are tailored to meet the unique needs and aspirations of the local community.
Highlights of the scheme include:
- Church Path will be transformed into a green corridor with landscaping, improved paths, and upgraded crossings, providing safer and more environmentally friendly routes for pedestrians and cyclists.
- Longstone Avenue will get a fresh new look, with new zebra crossings and greenery to better connect local green spaces and create more welcoming entrances to Newfield Primary School and Longstone Avenue Open Space.
- Local green spaces including Longstone Avenue Open Space and Roundwood Park will be enhanced to become vibrant, biodiverse areas with more plants, hedges, trees and seating.
- Fawcett Road will be redesigned to create space for more plants, trees, wider footpaths, and new crossings, making it a safer environment for walking and cycling.
- Roundwood Road and Franklyn Road Open Space will undergo improvements to create a greener and more welcoming environment.
- Traffic calming measures will be introduced on Fawcett Road, Longstone Avenue, and Cobbold Road to benefit local residents by helping reduce through traffic, lower vehicle speeds, and improve safety. A variety of options will be considered, including modal filters, and residents will be invited to share their feedback before any changes are implemented.
Councillor Jake Rubin, Cabinet Member for Employment, Innovation and Climate Action, said:
I’m so pleased that Brent Council has committed this major investment in Church End and Roundwood, which will improve the look and feel of the area and residents' quality of life. The scheme will tackle dangerous air pollution, provide safe routes for walking and cycling, increase green spaces and create a safer, cleaner area for all.
The scheme will complete over multiple phases, with each area gradually transformed as improvements take shape from 2025 to 2027.
For more information and the latest updates visit the Church End and Roundwood Green Neighbourhood page.
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9 comments:
It says above the project "It will also tackle issues such as fly-tipping and anti-social behaviour, making the area cleaner and safer for residents." Didn't think CIL money was supposed to be used for things the council should be doing anyway??? If they can use CIL money for this here why aren't they using it on these issues in other parts of Brent???
Its Harlesden Major Town Centre population growing as new car-free sky house towers. Brent taking account of that, Britain's new biggest transport super hub Harlesden south and Harlesden having Britains most polluted high street- this makes good growth policy sense and will lead to more infrastructure investment.
Good point, well spotted
With brownfield passports to car-free tower 'sky houses' non conservation area suburbias by global freehold tower investors happening already (see WM), government needs to final masterplan and infrastructure require such brownfield passport zones, rather than repeat- let the market decide/ many policy plans/ the worse the better- approach taken to brownfield estates since 2010. Reform in power will make Tory disengagement and exclusion of these new tenanted towers estates of taxpayers look like caring.
Politically timely for Brent to review its Local Plan to get all the assisted living infrastructure required for its many new towers of car-free 'houses' locked in pre July 2025 by which time all English councils must have a Local Plan in place. A highest quality possible and very specific socially ambitious plan for population grow, grow, grow zones Brent to 2040.
Conservation areas of population de-growth will look after themselves, but Harlesden Major Town Growth needs an active traffic integration plan direct into adjacent at 650 ha the biggest regeneration in Europe OPDC. Brent Local Plan should not continue to ignore that massive opportunity for all Brent residents.
Brent's Local Plan was adopted in February 2022 with an end date of 2041. It is quite a long, time consuming process so a strong case would need for it to be reviewed. You can find links here: https://www.brent.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning-policy-and-guidance/brent-local-plan
Local Plans are supposed to be reviewed every 5 years. Brent's was 'produced' in 2019 and changed not during its pandemic consultation to its adoption in 2022. Brownfield passport building on suburbs was not the live issue it is now- also see governments brownfield first policy. I think Growth Brent should plan/ bake in more infrastructure, more Local Green Space Designations (than 1), a separated cycle network for its car-free 'towers of houses' zones.......The 1/3rd of councils with no LP will be producing Labour policy fit LP's rather than retaining Tory enforced out of policy step LP's as if they were gold standard- the current Brent direction of travel to 2041.
Many councils suspended LP consulations during the pandemic, Brent was unique in just ploughing on in disregard. Brent LP was not consulted in the way that the1/3rd of councils without LP's new plans will be consulted in 2025, yet Brent faces extraordinary population growth in urgent need of good growth support targeting of funds. Brownfield first needs to match with public services infratrucure investment first- akin to 'every tower of houses' matters.
With no definition in English law of what brownfield land is. An inter war bog standard suburb can be brownfield in one Local and not brownfield in another Local. Brownfield at present is political.
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