Dec 2014 connectingtheneighbourhoodws debrief

Community Planning Workshop: DEBRIEFConnecting the Neighbourhood

Angela Koch, ImaginePlaces (Facilitator, commissioned by Elephant and Walworth Neighbourhood

Forum,www.elephantneighbourhoodforum.org)

1 November 2014

maginePlaces

Context & East Village Vision A

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http://www.elephantneighbourhoodforum.org

http://www.elephantneighbourhoodforum.org

Everyone is Welcome!

Saturday 1st November 2014

1pm to 5pm Pasley TA Hall

Stopford Road, off Manor Place Walworth, London SE17

Refreshments Provided!

Free

Green spaces and green walking and cycling routes are critical to the health and well-being of our

Neighbourhood as more people will live ,work, visit, play and study here in the future.

Join us! We’ll be discussing and planning desired routes for green walking

and cycling routes and the quality of our green spaces across the East Walworth, West Walworth and Rockingham areas.

Free

An Elephant & Walworth Neighbourhood Forum Event

Community Planning Workshop:

Connecting The Neighbourhood

A Workshop Facilitated by Angela Koch

(ImaginePlaces)

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maginePlaces

3 NPlanning Groups & Councils 3 Prince’s Foundation

3 Locality 3 RTPI Planning Aid England

3 Kentish Towner

Angela Koch

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Context

Green spaces and green walking and cycling routes are critical to the health and well-being of our Neighbourhood as more people will live ,work, visit, play and study here in the future.

Purpose

We’ll be discussing and planning desired routes for green walking and cycling routes and the quality of our green spaces across the East Walworth, West Walworth and Rockingham areas.

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Here are 3 working definitions of green walks as previously developed by the Forum:

1) Green Links – link one green space to another by extending the amount of green space between the two. These can form pedestrian pathways and woodland edges. An example is Salisbury Row Park where the green link is the meandering path through the park that few cyclists use. These links can improve biodiversity by providing habitats an enable wildlife to move between open spaces.

2) Quiet Green Routes which are lightly trafficked roads and streets used by cyclists, with trees and other planting designed to slow car traffic and improve / green the overall environment. Creating them can involve widening or building out pavements and planting more trees and other forms of greenery.

3) Greened main roads such as the New Kent Road, St Georges Road and Borough Road are often already heavily planted with mature trees. In many cases this planting is part of the historic townscape which contributes significantly to their character and reinforces the perception of them as pleasant and attractive routes.

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Agenda for today... 1pm - 1.15pm: Registration1.15pm - 1.30pm: Welcome & Introductions1.30pm - 1.35pm: Purpose of today and structure 1.35pm - 5pm: Workshop & next steps

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Introductions - Setting the scene.

Peter Wright – Introduction

Jerry Flynn – Outlined the work to date of Elephant and Walworth Neighbourhood Forum.

Luke Miller – Discussed the greening work in the East Walworth area

Peta Steel - Discussed the greening work in the West Walworth area

Jeremy Leach – Talked about the regeneration in the Walworth area and how it affects greening.

Peter Wright – Outlined the proposed Elephant Park being built as part of the Heygate development.

Simon Hughes, Member of Parliament, addressed the attendees and wished all a successful afternoon.

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1.35 - 5pm Workshop

1.35 – 1.50: Splitting up in self-governed workshops of about 6 people and explanation of tasks

Area 1: People that live in/near Rockingham/Chaucer ward Area 2: People that live East of Walworth Road Area 3: People that live West of Walworth Road

1st hour Our most cherished routes are … (production of maps for ‘during the week’,‘weekend’, ‘day’, ‘night’ for walking and cycling) 3 Feedback loop

2nd hourOur top 3 projects to significantly improve/create greener walking and cycling routes are… (Output: mapped and filling in A3 Project Sheets3 Feedback loop

3rd hourExhibition of all projects (all priority projects get mapped on one final and shared map and Priority Project sheets get added along site, annotated)3 Presentation of Priority Projects by groups (1 minute per project)3 Team up with if possible representative from each of the 3 areas and invest 90k of Green Pounds (4x5k, 2x10K and 2x25k) in the most important projects across the whole area. 3 Review of Project Priorities

5pm: Next steps and close

Workshop...

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Area 1

Area 2

Area 3

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3 Focus Areas

Workshop Outputs: 1st hour

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1st hour Our most cherished routes are … (production of maps for ‘during the week’,‘weekend’, ‘day’, ‘night’ for walking and cycling)

Key

I live here

I work here

Favourite Walking Route (week days)Favourite Cycling Route (week days)

Favourite Walking Route (weekends)Favourite Cycling Route (weekends)

Favourite Walking Route (DAY time) Favourite Cycling Route (Day time)

Favourite Walking Route (After Dark) Favourite Cycling Route (After Dark)

Mon to Fri

Weekend

East of Walworth team

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Key

I live here

I work here





Mon to Fri

Weekend

Rockingham team

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Key

I live here

I work here





Mon to Fri

Weekend

West of Walworth team

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1)Project Priorities

2)Project Map

3)Project Pitch

4)Project Importance

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Priority projects,locations...

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Area Code as marked on map /Investment

priorities on the day

Project Title Project Objectives Reasons Project Partners

W1 215k

Take the Low Line – N/S Railway Land

! Animate space along line of Railway

! Create Opportunities for Culture, Retail and Greening

! North/ South Car free environment

! Unused space – utilise existing corridors

! Provide affordable space for local bus

! Infrastructure spine – Backbone of the Community

! Community ! Southwark Council ! TfL ! GLA ! Local People ! People with money ! Rail Companies ! Developers ! Lottery?

E2 90k

Improve Junctions (Cyclist and walking)

! All Junctions to Albany Road

! Southern end of Walworth Road

! Rodney place crossing at New Kent Road

! East Street crossing at Old Kent Road

! Meadow Row and New Kent Road

! Elephant Road and New Kent Road

! Rodney Road safer to Walk/Cycle

! More green space ! Elsted Street Catesby

Street Junctions ! Thurlow Street

! Improves movement through area

! Makes it safer to walk and cycle

! Cleaner air, encourage community to be healthier

! TfL ! Local developers ! Southwark Council ! Local groups ! Southwark

Cyclists ! CTC ! Southwark Living

Streets ! Hospital Trusts ! London Wildlife

Trust

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E1 85k

Greenway through Congreve Estate and Congreve Street Planting

! Garden use – encourage use of green land on estates

! Beckway Street greening and through estate

! 4 Towers of Portland merge into ready [Pk?]

! Rodney Estates, Orb Street removal – merge Wim Nursery Rev PK 4, Estate, no cars,

! Queens Row to Bradenham Close

! Green Walls […] ! Thurlow Street/

Portland/ Brandon Streets area/ Southern roundabout

! ! Lend Lease ! Mobile gardens/

organisations ! Community groups ! Southwark Council ! Supermarkets,

superstores

W2 60k

Portland Street

! Make it safer for everyone, pedestrians, cyclists and cars

! This is a cycling route

! Making it 2-ways for bikists, one-way for cars and 2-ways for pedestrians

! Council ! Community ! TfL ! Sustrans ! Poss developers?

R3 55k

Coronet Crossing, Surface crossing light controlled

! Safety for pedestrians (Going for Buses)

! Surface Crossing linking cycle routes

! Dangerous – Stats confirm this is the No. 1 danger spot for pedestrians at the E&C Junction (This will not be possible unless one subway is retained by Tfl)

! TfL ! Southwark Council ! Southwark living

Streets ! Delancey

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E3 45k

Proper public toilet, One to be located on each side of Walworth intended to attract this area to pedestrians

! Short term community scheme through pubs and shops

! Long term proper public toilet in the area

! Specially to meet the needs of some mother and children, older people, pregnant, IBS sufferers

! Southwark Council ! Businesses ! Developers

R5 30k

Green Mapper (Digital)

! Map all public/ social green space, what each space has (i.e. playgrounds, picnic etc.)

! Getting people to explore new areas

! Helping people find information/ new spaces

! Highlights spaces/ routes to walk

! The Greater London National Park/ Queen Mary’s!

! City Mapper!! Southwark council

W3 20k

Linkage ! Link Kennington Park Oval to connect more obvious, greening, signage, language of street scape

! Connect Biodiversity

! Encourage sustainable transport (walking)

! More pleasant for cyclists and pedestrians

! Less focus on transports

! The council – CGS ! Community

R2 20k

Harper Road to Heygate

! Get across road swiftly, safely and pleasantly

! Options: underground, overground, surface diagonal crossing?

! Improving flows, overcoming carrier

! Connecting neighbourhood safely: great bus route

! TfL ! Southwark Council ! Lend Lease

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R4 10k

E&C W.C., reuse a subway

! Provide convenience at busy junction to reduce wider spread soiling by all users, particularly revelers

! Obviously closing subways will make the soiling even more noticeable

! TfL ! Southwark Council ! Albert Barnes TRA ! Perronet House

TRA ! Rockingham TRA ! Save our subways

org. R1 5k

Lowline, Greening, lights and SEG cycling route

! Greening and enhancing new-line

! Encouraging cyclists and pedestrians to use this shortcut

! Biodiversity benefits

! Good for pedestrians and cyclists: Dropped curbs, segregated lanes

! Greening hard landscape

! Better Bankside ! National Trust ! Southwark living

societies ! Walworth society ! Southwark council ! Residents of L&Q

block

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Co-produced map with Area Code showing projects,locations and aims are presented here:

Zoom in and explore!

http://goo.gl/rHFM7C

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Who participated on the day...

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Name Organisation/interest Post code

Augustine Nyemah SE17

Barnaby Shaw SE17

Celia Cronin

Deborah McKenzie Southwark Council officer for the Parks & Open Spaces team at Tooley Street

Enrico Costanza SE17

Helen Bray Helen works locally at Shell Centre on York Road. She is interested in green links, community assets, pedestrian / cycling / transport themes. SE17

Jeremy Leach SE17

Jerry Flynn Elephant & Walworth Neighbourhood Forum SE16

Jim Beedell Brandon TRA SE17

Karl Eastham Chaucer Cllr.

Lesley Wertheimer SE15

Liz Cook SE17

Lorraine Hilton Chair of Bricklayers Arms T&RA SE17

Luke Miller Friends of Nursery Park se17

Mari Tosti SE17

Meera Rajan Trinity Newington Residents Association SE1

Michael

Monica Heeran SE5

Monica Fasapri SE17

Nicole Beedell Brandon TRA SE17

Norma Lawrence

Patria Roman Latin Elephant

Paul O'Connor

Peta Steel SE17

Peter Wright Chair of East Walworth Green Links SE17

Poddy Clark SE5

Richard Lee Elephant & Walworth Neighbourhood Forum

Richard Reynolds SE1

Santa Pedone

Sarah Bridger Worker for Gillespies who are designing the Elephant park

Shelagh Farren SE17

Simon Hughes Local MP

Sofia Roupakia Elephant & Walworth Neighbourhood Forum SE1

William Houngbo SE1

Total = 33 From:- SE1: 4 SE5: 2 SE15: 1 SE16: 1 SE17: 15



Barnaby Shaw SE17

Celia Cronin




Jeremy Leach SE17





Liz Cook SE17



Mari Tosti SE17


Michael

Monica Heeran SE5

Monica Fasapri SE17


Norma Lawrence


Paul O'Connor

Peta Steel SE17


Poddy Clark SE5



Santa Pedone


Shelagh Farren SE17



William Houngbo SE1


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Barnaby Shaw SE17

Celia Cronin




Jeremy Leach SE17





Liz Cook SE17



Mari Tosti SE17


Michael

Monica Heeran SE5

Monica Fasapri SE17


Norma Lawrence


Paul O'Connor

Peta Steel SE17


Poddy Clark SE5



Santa Pedone


Shelagh Farren SE17



William Houngbo SE1




Barnaby Shaw SE17

Celia Cronin




Jeremy Leach SE17





Liz Cook SE17



Mari Tosti SE17


Michael

Monica Heeran SE5

Monica Fasapri SE17


Norma Lawrence


Paul O'Connor

Peta Steel SE17


Poddy Clark SE5



Santa Pedone


Shelagh Farren SE17



William Houngbo SE1


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Context & East Village Vision A1 December 2014

Angela Koch of ImaginePlaces London, Kentish Town

email: [email protected]: @ImaginePlaces

phone: 07904310053

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