The Dulwich Alliance has written directly to Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport, to ask him not to fund the Dulwich LTNs because they fail to pass the tests he outlined in his letter to councils on 16 October 2020. You can see the Dulwich Alliance letter here.
The Sunday Telegraph picked up on this in a news story today, 26 September 2021, under the heading “Shapps urged to scrap low traffic scheme”, reporting that “Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, is being urged to intervene to scrap a series of low traffic neighbourhoods after a council survey found two out of three people wanted them abolished.”
In the longer online version, decision-maker Cllr Catherine Rose is quoted as saying, “This was never a ballot, and there are strong views on both sides of the argument.” Why is the Council persisting in making this into a battle rather than trying to bring the community together with a better and fairer scheme?
If you want to comment on the Council’s latest proposals for the LTNs, email streetspace@southwark.gov.uk, copying in catherine.rose@southwark.gov.uk, by tomorrow, Monday 27 September. You can view the Council’s report on the Dulwich Streetspace Review here