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http://www.southwark.gov.uk/streets-survey

The Council is consulting until the end of March. First complete for where you live and then you can select to comment on other areas of Southwark.

I don’t live in the East Dulwich Grove ward but was able to comment on the need for a pedestrian crossing at the Lordship Lane end.
 

 

Southwark seem to have created a whole department churning out consultations, and whilst it's important to get residents views they have gone from Area consultations to Borough consultations. With the diversity of different areas in Southwark is there a danger that one size doesn't fit all ? Especially around transport needs and on street parking / shared use? 

Edited by Spartacus

I note that the questionnaire lists a range of actions the council could take as regards streets etc. - you can not complete these but you cannot confirm that there is nothing that you wish them to do to your e.g. local street. That means in interpretation that every action called for will be listed (e.g. wider pavements, more crossings etc.) but there will almost certainly be no listing for the %age of respondents who don't want/ need changes to their streets.

Equally all the actions are posited as effectively cost free. Nowhere can you say that you'd prefer what are (in effect) wholly discretionary actions to be substituted for others, which might indeed be statutory.

Nowhere can you say that you'd want potholes addressed before pavement widening, or education to be better funded rather than more crossings. Or sealed off streets. This questionnaire is written to licence more interference along the lines we already know - and it gives no space to say 'things are broadly OK, for me, in my neck of the woods'. It is therefore just a charter for change, and sticks to the agenda we already know about. I'd have liked to ask for better speed control in Barry, for instance, but there's no option for that. I'd like cyclists kept off my local pavements, but ditto!

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