Plans for the Barkantine Liveable Streets scheme are currently out for consultation, closing on Wednesday 19th February.

After carrying out site visits and discussions amongst committee members the consensus was that the proposals are very good, with only a small number of extra asks to make in order to improve this already very good plan further.

We therefore suggest that you tick “very supportive” in relation to every proposal in the consultation (scroll right down to the bottom of the page to find the questionnaire) – and then get all your friends and family in the area to do the same.

Make the scheme even better

Although the scheme is very good, below are a couple of areas where it could be further improved. If you have the time, please use the free text boxes to ask for the following:

• Throughout: ask for many more cycle hangars to be installed ( we suggest at least one per street), and also that all existing and proposed one-way streets will permit contraflow cycling.
• Scheme 2: an additional speed hump to be included on Alpha Grove, somewhere between Havannah Street and Malabar Street to ensure slow speeds of motor vehicles on approach to the junction of Malabar Street/Alpha Grove where the proposed school street will be.

If you are interested in more details of the scheme, there is some discussion on Cyclescape, but the most important thing is that as many people as possible fill in the consultation with supportive responses. Please do share as widely as you can.