Suggestions and requests
Community groups and residents provide a valuable source of information and ideas on how the borough can improve its Street Scene, Transport Planning and Parking provision.
To help you provide feedback and make suggestions, guidance has been produced for each area. It should be highlighted that the Council does not have unlimited resources to investigate each and every suggestion/request, but does try and respond where residents/community groups can demonstrate that over half of the road/area directly affected are in favour of an idea.
Parking
The council does not normally promote any new Community Parking Zones.
There is a current programme of reviewing yellow lines/parking restrictions in the main shopping areas of the borough. Suggestions are particularly welcomed from residents regarding this work which is aimed to be completed by April 2012.
Traffic calming and speed limits
Requests are sometimes received from residents for a 20mph zone in their road. The current government requirements for such a zone is that the average speed must already be lower than 24mph, that there is a bad safety record in the road and the general layout of the road suits such an approach.
As one of the requirements is that speeds must already be relatively low, residents will need to consider carefully the merits of investing resources into simply erecting/placing more signs and road markings in their road. Particularly as the Police would not enforce the 20mph speed limit.
Traffic signals
All traffic signals in London are installed and maintained by Transport for London (TfL) and if any signals are not working properly then they can be reported online on the TfL website.
The borough would be interested to hear of any sets of signals that resident’s feel may need retiming or indeed removing. These can then be passed on to TfL for comments if appropriate.
Street Scene
Reporting a street scene issue can easily be done online and it will be directed to the appropriate team for attention.
General comments
Please note that while comments will be reviewed by the Highways and Transport team, it may not always be possible to investigate each suggestion. The team will usually concentrate on requests that have a majority support of residents.