Coming through your letterbox this week…
Further to last week’s post on the Council’s Liveable Neighbourhoods initiative which is now very much underway we’re delivering a two page bulletin on what it might mean for the Camden area. This is a very exciting time with the potential for a significant improvement in the levels of traffic for those on Camden Road, tributary roads and near neighbours.
In short less of this
and more of this type of thing
Please look out for your copy on your doormat and if you want to make any comment in support or otherwise, you can do so by adding a reply to this post at the bottom of the page.
There is also the opportunity to add your name to our campaign and place a comment there too. There’s a link to it on the top right of every page of this web-site.
Finally we do encourage you to go to the council’s dedicated web-page and read their brochure on the topic and complete the survey by 14th October.
We are committed to:
- keeping you as informed as possible and
- encouraging your feedback to us
- participating in any debate on particular issues
- working closely with our local councillors to get Camden onto the initial shortlist for an experimental scheme.
Here is the bulletin in digital form.
Erratum: really sorry the link given in the hard copy version of our September Bulletin is incorrect. It should be https://beta.bathnes.gov.uk/liveable-neighbourhoods-consultation
Apologies for the confusion. Very frustrating error for all of us. Hopefully some of us will see this statement or search for the site on google.
Hmmm…..like the idea (Belgrave Crescent was proposed many years ago as a ‘play street’ – I SINCERELY hope it falls strictly into whatever you are proposing. The play streets idea never surfaced. Just a few comments on that latest newsletter – 1.) You seem to diminish issues in Belgrave Crescent as rather minor to those on Belgrave Road (thought the idea of this association actually being ‘CAMDEN ROAD Residents Association’ had long been forgotten – but maybe not?) – E.G. phrases such as ‘to a lesser extent’ in referring to traffic avoid referencing the very fast ‘rat running’ that we endure (particularly, but not strictly) when Camden Road is busy and satnavs point them down our road (try it). We have had multiple car pile ups here – wish you had avoided separating Camden Road from all association roads – we are an area association – not a one-street association. If you want all roads involved, make it an all-road association. 2.) You simply can’t state that having 146 signatures translates to half the residences (Belgrave Cres alone has 43 buildings – several are multiple occupancy – flats)- are those responses single household responses or multiple responses from many houses. Please please please – make sure that whatever you put out reflects all of those streets, crescents and roads that form part of the association, and is not ‘Camden Road-centric’, and is scrupulously accurate in using data and not subject to dismiss through neglectful use.
Hi Steve,
Thanks for getting in touch and for your views. Belgrave Crescent is very much part of Camden as we define it and is well represented on the Committee, as is the Upper Hedgemead area. That said, the probable major gain from an LTN is for residents on Camden Road as well as the many who use Camden Road for cycling, walking or using the bus. Were we to get a Busgate, we are saying that we are prepared to be subject to the same restrictions as everyone else which is a loss of some of freedom we have now. So we readily acknowledge that for residents on the more peripheral roads the balance of pros and cons is not quite so advantageous. It’s a subtle point but we felt it important to make this distinction between the two groups rather than try and whitewash over it. It remains one neighbourhood in all our thinking. The 146 residences quoted is nearing half of 400 which is the number on our current lists of residences by counting buzzer buttons etc. If you look at our published graph we were aiming for 200 sign ups and hope to get more than that.
We are close neighbours and if you need to pursue further. I’m very happy to meet.