A group of Queens Park residents will present a petition to Brent Cabinet tomorrow calling for the Council to withdraw the latest local traffic scheme proposed for the Queen's Park Healthy Neighbourhood. They want any formal consultation to be deferred pending a clear plan outlining the benefits
The petition is on the Brent Council website HERE
We the undersigned petition the council to register strong opposition from the residents and communities of Queen’s Park, Kensal Rise, Brondesbury Park, and surrounding areas, to Brent Council's hyper-local traffic scheme proposals in a limited area of Queen’s Park. We call on Brent Council to withdraw the latest proposals under the Queen’s Park Healthy Neighbourhood scheme and defer any formal Consultation until a plan is presented with clear benefits that prioritise the health, safety, equality, prosperity, and quality of life for the entire neighbourhood (in and around the designated ‘project zone’) based on strong community support, evidence-based planning, transparent decision-making, and value for money.
The Queen’s Park Healthy Neighbourhood page on Brent Council’s website promises a scheme that “ensures the whole community can benefit from cleaner air and safer, quieter streets…”.
While we welcome and support that aspiration, the trial measures on the streets
connecting Kingswood Avenue and Salusbury Road are diverting traffic
unhelpfully, adversely impacting the broader community, and together with the
new proposals developed by MP Smarter Travel, raise serious concerns regarding:
• Health and safety risks from displaced traffic increasing congestion and pollution within the project zone and on already dangerous and busy boundary roads, including Salusbury and Chamberlayne where thousands of children attend school.
• Failure to consider any impact on adjacent areas like Brondesbury Park, Kensal Rise and North Kilburn, and neglect of vulnerable populations such as the elderly, disabled, and families who cannot rely solely on walking or cycling.
• Unfair prioritisation of select streets at the expense of surrounding areas, imposed without broad community support, based on flawed engagement and inadequate impact assessment, exacerbating inequality and division.
• Unnecessary harm and disruption to residents and businesses in Queen’s Park
and surrounding areas from restricted access.
The Cabinet is at 10am on Monday December 9th and can be viewed online HERE.
6 comments:
It should never have to come to this. Queen’s Park councillors and officers underestimated and continuously ignored the strength of ward residents’ opposition to these proposals. A lot of money has already been wasted on a heap of cameras. Labour councillors should be minded to serve and listen to ALL residents who elected them and not just the few wealthy Queen’s Park residents who are to benefit from these proposals to the detriment cost of thousands of other residents.
Ignores and consultation ignored the giant 'car-free' (non car owner) South Kilburn housing tall building zone direct south on this map. This type of luxury 'for our cars only' hyper local zone inside Conservation Areas of car owners are non priorities post general election.
Much wiser for decision makers to think about how much through traffic the 45 ha 'car free' housing zone south of this should endure. See what Hammersmith and Fulham does in its car free housing massive population growth zones, these CA vehicle exclusion principles are applied to the car-free housing zones instead of to car-owner de-populating zones.
Queens Park Healthy Neighbourhood is South Kilburn car-free housing tall building zones road traffic deaths and pollution being increased.
How is London car-free housing growth zoned to public sell with such inept city planning of it, as in diverted through traffic being grown due to conservation area zone hyper local 'for our cars only' wants adjacent to it still dominating council thinking?
Ignore locals at your peril
Simply pushing traffic onto neighbouring areas is totally counter-productive for all except the few at the heart of Queens Park. There are much better solutions that will deliver more equitably for all.
Regional and across borough boundary movement planning that is inclusive of the new car-free housing massive population growth zones would be an alternative spending idea. This wider area C19 car-free, C20 car-full, to C21 car-free. Massive scale car-free housing blocks being built, a growth in the need to for active travel design first and for decision makers to fully think its impications through.
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