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Hi everyone,
Thanks to you all for contributing to the project so far. We’ve now started getting out and about attending events in the area and beyond and here’s a flavour of what we’ve been up to:
St Matthew’s Road street party Saturday 13th July
A fantastic community day on St Matthew’s road with the street closed to motor vehicles for a day of festivities. The Brixton LN team were on hand to listen to the views of local residents about the local area and how it could be made better for walking and cycling and more liveable generally.
Some great ideas about how the road could be re-invented!
Zero Emissions Deliveries site visit
We took local business stakeholders up to see the Waltham Forest ZED project. This project uses cycles and electric vehicles to make last mile deliveries across the area, reducing the need for vans and trucks on local roads and helping to reduce air pollution.
Could something like this work in Brixton?
Leaf Tenants and Residents Association
We presented the project at the Leaf TRA and listened to the concerns of local residents about traffic and safety on local roads. We’ll be going back in the Autumn to hold a workshop on changes that could make local streets safer and more attractive.
Family Walk next week
Join us on the 25th of July for a family walk around Brixton. This will be a great opportunity to get the views of parents / carers with young children on how to make our streets feel more safe and welcoming. Contact info@healthylivingplatform.org and see the event flyer here . Let us know if you're coming if you can, or see you there.
That's all for now. If you would like us to attend an event you are organising then please let us know by contacting us at the email address below. Looking forward to hearing more of your ideas for the project!
Brixton LN project team brixtonln@lambeth.gov.uk
Hi everyone,
Our initial consultation has been running for just over a month. In that time over 350 people have contributed to the map and approaching 2,000 people have visited the website – thanks for this fantastic response!
We’ve now started getting out to talk to people about our ideas and listening to the views of our many stakeholders for this project. Please get in touch at the email address below if you would like us to attend any events / meetings you are involved in / aware of. The team is still small but hopefully growing over the next few weeks so we’ll get along to as many events as we can.
Brixton Liveable Neighbourhood is a three-year project with the first year dedicated to community engagement and developing project proposals. Implementation will be in years two and three, but we are very happy to consider ‘quick wins’ and project demonstrations as well other events and activities that we can bring forward in the meantime. It’s a Lambeth led project, but we are working closely with our main funder, Transport for London, as well as making sure we co-ordinate with all the other things going on in the Brixton area (more about those in future updates).
The project is about change that will deliver a better environment for everyone and support a thriving town centre and we want to hear from as many local people, businesses and visitors as possible. We also want to be able to communicate regularly with as wide a community as possible, so getting your neighbours and friends to sign up to this website will be very helpful.
Please forward this news item to your social media contacts using the social media buttons and help us widen the circle!
And finally, please look out for local activities as part of Clean Air Week (next week):
https://love.lambeth.gov.uk/clean-air-week-2019/
More to come soon,
Brixton LN project team brixtonln@lambeth.gov.uk
Welcome everyone,
Thanks to all who have contributed to the project so far – we’ve had a fantastic response to the launch of the website with over a thousand comments / agreements made by over 100 people. And this is just the first week.
Over the next few months we will be out and about talking to as many people as possible about the project, so please look out for forthcoming meetings and events – publicised here.
It’s really important that we reach people who don’t normally get involved in this sort of thing, so please do encourage neighbours and friends to get involved and let us know of any opportunities to get the word out.
In the meantime we are busy setting up the project and getting the team and programme in place so we can move forward as swiftly as possible.
More to come soon,
Brixton LN project team brixtonln@lambeth.gov.uk