Haringey's Local Implementation Plan (Transport Strategy)

Following the first stage of the consultation back in the summer, Haringey Council have now published their proposed transport strategy.

I've reproduced the material from the Council in full below & there's more material than you can shake a stick at via the links. However, before I let you drown in that, there are a couple of bits of particularly local relevance that I'd like to draw you attention to.

Firstly one of the strategy's objectives:

Increase transport access and connectivity to and from Haringey's key employment and regeneration areas, including Wood Green town centre, and the growth areas of Haringey Heartlands and Tottenham Hale.

And which roads lead directly to the first two of those areas? Yup, Wightman Road & Green Lanes.

However, on the flip side, the document also has this:

The Council's Corridors and Neighbourhoods programme for 2011-2014 are:

Green Lanes Corridor, Harringay and St Ann’s Neighbourhood. Holistic treatment of these corridors and neighbourhood and adjacent neighbourhoods, focusing on accessibility improvements to urban realm & public transport, traffic management, road safety, cycling and pedestrian access with the aim of supporting the town centre and encouraging sustainable travel.

So on the one hand, danger signals, on the other some real hope. On the one hand a very real danger that Harringay roads will be allowed to develop, or even cultivated, as desire paths through to Haringey's jewels in the crown. On the other the possibility that some of the area's traffic problems will be dealt with.

We need to get very clear understanding of what exactly this means. I know there's a an invitation only meeting for the hood next week to which it's been proposed that I'm invited. If that invitation arrives and I'm able to attend, I'll make it my business to find out what the implications might be. I hope Paul from Wightman Road RA will go to since he has an eagle eye for detail on these things.

In the meantime:

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Message from the Council

Haringey Council’s draft Local Implementation Plan (LIP) is commencing a 6 week period of statutory and public consultation between Monday 27th September and Monday 8th November. Haringey Council’s transport strategy, called the LIP, contains details of the local transport objectives and delivery proposals for the 3 year period from 2011 to 2014. This includes the 2011/2012 funding submission to TfL. The content of the LIP reflects the transport needs and aspirations of Haringey’s residents and businesses and contributes towards the implementation of key priorities within the Mayors Transport Strategy covering the period 2011-2031.

[A summary of the LIP content is enclosed below]. This summary includes details of Haringey’s LIP objectives and the delivery plan programme of investment for the period 2011-2014.

The contents of the draft LIP is now available for consultation and each section can be viewed at www.haringey.gov.uk/LIP

If you would like to comment on the content of this draft document please email
frontline.consultation@haringey.gov.uk by Monday 8th November.

Please put 'LIP' in the subject line of your email message.

Or you can write to us at the freepost address:
Haringey LIP Consultation
FREEPOST NAT20890
PO Box 264,
London N22 8BR

Following Statutory and Public Consultation, the final draft LIP will be submitted to TfL by 20th December 2010, with Mayor approval scheduled for spring 2011.

If you require further information regarding this LIP consultation please contact Malcolm Smith (Tel: 020 8489 5574) or Edwin Leigh (Tel: 020 8489 1492).

Kind regards

Malcolm Smith
Team Leader, Transportation Planning
2nd floor south
River Park House
225 High Road
Wood Green
London N22 8HQ
Tel: 020 8489 5574
Malcolm.smith@haringey.gov.uk


HARINGEY'S LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (TRANSPORT STRATEGY)

CONSULTATION SUMMARY

Haringey Council’s Local Implementation Plan (LIP) contains proposals for the delivery of the Mayors Transport Strategy (MTS) in Haringey. The LIP is a borough wide transport strategy detailing the council’s transport objectives and delivery proposals for 2011-2014 which reflect the transport needs and aspirations of people in Haringey and contributes towards the implementation of key priorities within the MTS over the 20 year period 2011-2031.

Haringey's transport challenges

The transport challenges and opportunities facing Haringey over the next 20 years, have been identified and prepared within the context of the goals and challenges of the MTS, the sub regional transport plan for North London, and through consultation with Haringey residents and key stakeholders. From this the following LIP objectives have been developed:

• Reduce Haringey’s deprivation and health inequalities by improving access for all to essential services, including health, education, employment, social and leisure facilities across the borough.
• Ensure Haringey’s transport network can accommodate increases in travel demand by tackling congestion, increasing sustainable transport capacity, encouraging modal shift and reducing the need to travel.
• Facilitate an increase in walking and cycling to improve the health and wellbeing of Haringey’s residents.
• Reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on Haringey’s transport network and reduce the number of casualties among vulnerable road users.
• Increase transport access and connectivity to and from Haringey’s key employment and regeneration areas, including Wood Green town centre, and the growth areas of Haringey Heartlands and Tottenham Hale.
• Improve air quality within the borough through initiatives to reduce and mitigate the effects of pollutant emissions from road and diesel operated rail transport.
• Reduce Haringey’s CO2 emissions from transport by 40% by 2020 through smarter travel measures to reduce car use and encouraging the use of zero or low carbon transport alternatives.
• Reduce crime, the fear of crime and anti-social behaviour on all modes of transport and in the public realm in Haringey.
• Improve the condition and legibility of principal roads, cycle paths and footways within the borough, having regard to the public realm, and increase satisfaction with the condition of the network.
• Ensure that transport protects and enhances Haringey’s natural environment including biodiversity, geodiversity, landscape, townscape, cultural heritage, water resources and land.
• Minimise the effects of unpredictable events arising from climate change on the transport network.

LIP Delivery Plan

The LIP contains a 3 year delivery programme of schemes and policy measures for 2011/12 to 2013/14, based on the Borough’s 3 year funding allocations provided by Transport For London. The delivery programme is presented under the 4 TfL funding programme categories; Corridors and Neighbourhoods, Major Schemes, Smart Travel, and Maintenance.

The Council’s Corridors and Neighbourhoods programme for 2011-2014 are:

Green Lanes Corridor, Harringay and St Ann’s Neighbourhood. Holistic treatment of these corridors and neighbourhood and adjacent neighbourhoods, focusing on accessibility improvements to urban realm & public transport, traffic management, road safety, cycling and pedestrian access with the aim of supporting the town centre and encouraging sustainable travel.

Tottenham Hale and Tottenham Green neighbourhoods as part of the Tottenham Hale Gyratory complementary measures. Linking pedestrian, cycling and public transport accessibility improvements from surrounding residential and industrial areas, and Tottenham High Road.
Seven Sisters and North Tottenham neighbourhood and corridors. Accessibility improvements to urban realm for pedestrians, cycling & public transport. Include footway enhancement, and road safety/traffic calming measures

Local safety scheme programme. Innovative community projects to encourage sustainable/ carbon efficient travel behaviour.

DIY streets/20mph zones. Projects to develop innovative traffic calming, home zone type measures. Incorporates working with the local community to identify, design and develop the physical measures as well as encouraging residents to adopt sustainable travel behaviour
Biking Borough strategy delivery. Programme of cycling infrastructure, behavioural & promotional measures focused around cycle hub in Wood Green/Turnpike Lane centres (circa 2km catchment area).

Local cycle routes. Implementation of Greenways and London Cycle Network routes
Cycle training. Continue programme of on road cycle training for school children and individuals.

Electric charging points. Implementation of on street & public car parking charging points. Target of 48 charging points by 2015

Car club scheme development. Expansion to 130 bays by 2012.

Smarter travel initiatives. Include measures to influence people's travel behaviour towards more sustainable options such as encouraging school, workplace and individualised travel planning

Accessibility schemes to improve shopmobility service for elderly and mobility impaired users
Local transport projects – Innovative community projects to encourage sustainable/ carbon efficient travel behaviour.

Maintenance programme for borough’s road network, footways and bridges

‘Major Scheme’ proposal for Wood Green town centre will be submitted to TfL for funding to deliver town centre public realm improvements for pedestrians, cyclists and for accessing public transport network.

How to make comments

The contents of the draft LIP is now available for consultation and each section can be viewed at www.haringey.gov.uk/LIP

If you would like to comment on the content of this draft document please email frontline.consultation@haringey.gov.uk

(Please put ‘LIP’ in the subject line of your email message)

Or you can write to us at the free post address:

Haringey LIP Consultation
FREEPOST NAT20890
PO Box 264,
London N22 8BR

Please submit your comments by Monday 8th November 2010.