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Ferndale Low Traffic Neighbourhood Consultation - Live

Hello,

As a valued member of the local community, we would like to inform you that the Ferndale LTN consultation is now live. Please do complete the survey and share it to encourage as many people as possible to take part.

Follow the link below to complete it.

Our monitoring of the LTN shows that it is successfully reducing traffic in and around the area, and supporting more people to cycle. As a result, we are proposing to make the trial LTN permanent, with changes that we think will help it work well for everyone if it stays in place.

The proposed changes include dispensation from relevant traffic filters for blue badge holders, accessible transport, specified healthcare providers, taxis and fully accessible private hire vehicles. We will also investigate further options to reduce traffic on the western end of Ferndale Road and on Cottage Grove.

How to respond

Click below to go the survey. The survey has more information about our proposals for the LTN and the impact on traffic in the local area so far.

Complete the survey

Monitoring data

We have also published the latest data on the impact of the LTN on traffic, active travel and air quality.

Our monitoring has found that:

Overall, traffic reduced by 6%, or around 6000 vehicles a day, when measuring traffic volumes on all the roads within the LTN and on the boundary roads.

Traffic reduced by 47% on internal streets. On boundary roads (external streets) it increased by 8%.

Significant reductions in traffic on Concannon Road (94%), Sandmere Road (79%), Ferndale Road East - close to the Ferndale Community Sports Centre (83%), Dalyell Road near Lansdowne School (68%).

Cycling has increased by 58% on internal roads and by 55% on external roads.

Specific roads with big increases in cycling include Combermere Road (99%), Ferndale Road East (215%), Hargwyne Street (104%) and Sandmere Road (67%)).

Traffic has increased on some roads and we are looking into ways to improve this, outlined in ‘Improving the LTN’.

All the places where we analysed air quality that were classed as sensitive, such as outside schools and care homes, had air quality within legal limits. This includes sensitive sites on boundary roads.

Overall air quality in Lambeth is improving, partly due to measures such as the Ultra-Low Emission Zone. We expect to see greater improvements over time.

Posted on 14th February 2022

by ND