News on Our Healthy Walworth - Low Emission neighbourhood

We’ve been out and about all over Walworth and spoken to hundreds of local people about Our Healthy Walworth – the plan to design a Low Emission Neighbourhood for the Walworth Road area. Walworth has high rates of asthma and childhood obesity, and roads dominated by cars – most of them coming from outside the area - make these problems much worse.

We think there are ways to make our streets healthier – such as traffic-free zones outside schools, banned turns to prevent through traffic, and even road closures to turn parts of the neighbourhood into healthy public spaces . But we want to hear your priorities to help us get this right.

Over 1000 of you have already contributed to our online map , but that means thousands more have yet to speak up. There’s still plenty of time to have your say – Phase 1 closes on 31st December.

One of the questions that we’ve been asking, both online and when we meet people, is that you rank your priorities for improving the streets and roads around Walworth. Below shows the current rankings, with the first three priorities well out in the lead. Do you agree?

1. Tackling air quality

2. Reducing through traffic

3. Encouraging people to walk/cycle more

4. Reducing traffic accident hot-spots

5. Improving bus journey times

6. Making the area attractive for shopping and leisure

This is a real opportunity to help us to come up with plans for Walworth that will have long term benefits for the health, safety and community wellbeing of local people. In future phases we will be using all the suggestions we have received and working with residents and local businesses to develop practical proposals for the area.

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