This consultation has now closed.Attempts were made to 'game' the outcome; with details of the consultation posted on a number of cycle relaed websites, urging people to take part.
We wait to hear the outcome of what Enfield Council say ws an exercise "to shape the plans for your neighbourhood by telling us what you think."
The Fernleigh Road Area 'Quieter Neighbourhood' proposals and consultation, went live quietly on Wednesday, 18th October. The proposals are designed to control vehicle movements on the 'ladder' of roads linking Hoppers Road with Green Lanes; from Station Road to The Bourne; through the heart of Winchmore Hill.
The basic idea seems to deter drivers from using alternative routes to Green Lanes, especially during peak hours; even though this will make the congestion even worse. Have Enfield Council told Winchmore Hill about the proposals which are going to have a major impact on thousands of people?
Apparently 2,100 copies of this leaflet have been distributed around the roads on the 'ladder', but it is a generic leaflet, with no mention of Winchmore Hill or any of the proposed changes, merely that the details can be found on the cycle enfield website.
Suppose you go to cycle enfield in search of the comnsultation, you might start at the A105 page under 'Major Projects'?
Not a word about this consultation, not even a download of the leaflet and map which outlines what is being proposed.
http://cycleenfield.co.uk/major-projects/a105-scheme-consultation/
Here is the map, which outlines the proposals on the consultation page
Here is a summary of the key proposals:
* It is proposed to make the whole area a 20 MPH Zone, which most people are unlikely to object to, although traffic calmng measures such as speed humps (which the emergency services dislike), which few people are likely to object to. In the text of this illustration we have an admission that more people are using alternative routes through residential streets, to avoid the new junctions on Green Lanes.
* The left turn from Station Road into Ringwood Way and Ratcliffe Road will be banned, from 7:30-9:30 am and 5:00-7:00 pm. The text box reads:
"Although this will also affect residents, we are responding to complaints about the amount of traffic using these roads to avoid the new traffic lights on Green Lanes".
* It is intended to reduce the width of Orpington Road, Haselmere Road and Fernleigh Road to deter drivers from using them. This is to be done by widening the parking bays.The residents of Fernleigh Road and Woodberry Avenue are to be given a choice of either having their road narrowed with planters placed in the road or speed humps! This will entail the loss of seventeen parking spaces in Woodberry Avenue and five in Fernleigh Road. Is this really going to have any impact on driver behaviour, or more naivety on the part of the so called scheme designers?
* It is proposed that Eaton Park Road would become one way for vehicles travelling towards Green Lanes and that Meadowcroft Road would become one way in the other direction.
* It is also proposed that while all of Stonard Road would remain a two way road, there would be No Entry signs on it at the junction with Avondale Road. The effect of this "point no entry" would be that vehicles would not be able to use Stonard Road to travel all of the way from Green Lanes to Hoppers Road. It would also mean that vehicles coming out of Avondale Road would not be able to turn right into Stonard Road.
Download the technical drawings here
This so called consultation lasts for only three weeks. It is scheduled to close on 12th November 2017.
Here is the link, which you will need to take part in the consultation
You can request a paper copy of the questionnaire by calling 020 8379 4859.
So what do you think?
If you live on one of the above roads where new measures are proposed, perhaps you are happy at the prospect of fewer cars, but will that really happen?
Add your comments below; (Your contact details will not be published)
It is important for people to make their views known, both through the official consultation process, through the press and social media.
The Fernleigh Road Area 'Quieter Neighbourhood' proposals and consultation, went live quietly on Wednesday, 18th October. Are LBE planning to tell residents what they propose to do?
Comments (8)
John B
Traffic planners of Enfield have little understanding of how we live and travel in this area. Under "quieter neighbourhoods" they propose no left turn travelling east down Station Rd into both Ringwood Way & Radcliffe Rd!. The prevention of a left turn into Ringwood Way from Station Rd will cause chaos, especially during school time & parents will just travel down Compton Road, Kings Ave, into Station Rd , and then right turn into Ringwood causing a log jam in Station Road. Seems a good way to block Station Rd with extra right turns!
Our A105 was designed to be an arterial road, which is now severely clogged by a £42m badly designed cycle scheme, forcing essential traffic and cyclists into even busier residential streets. The proposed changes will have little effect in encouraging motor traffic back onto the A105 , will drain stretched Enfield financial resources and make life more difficult and no safer for most residents.
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Jane F
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Mark B
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Jon
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Cath O
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Ann Bennett
If they narrow Woodberry Avenue and Fernleigh Road, etc., where are the residents supposed to park? I had to go to the doctor’s last week and to my horror found that I can no longer park on Green Lanes so had to find somewhere in Fernleigh. If that is to be narrowed I think I will have to resort to a cab to get me there and back but not everyone can afford to do that. Obviously (to me at any rate), too many of our Councillors live in large houses with their own driveways and have no idea of the problems people have to park. And how are residents in this ‘quieter neighbourhood’ going to get on when they want a delivery, or, more to the point, want to move – where is the removal van going to go? Probably half a mile away at this rate.
We will all have shortly to revert to using horses and carts, and I’m not totally joking when I say that.
I know traffic is a problem but the Council are partly to blame, in my opinion, in that they let people convert their garages into rooms and thus have only room, if they’re lucky, for one car on the driveway. But, of course, there are many houses in this Victorian built part of London that don’t even have garages. We already have to accommodate wheelie bins, now cars. What next?
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Jo Davey
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Jenny Carter
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