Two out of three reject the Dulwich LTNs

The results of the Dulwich Streetspace consultation are in – but the Council has done its best to bury them.

On the evening of Friday 17 September, Southwark Council finally published its report on the experimental measures in Dulwich, together with 19 appendices.

But the headline results from the consultation – which asked people to give their views on each of the specific road measures – have been buried.

Even once you’ve identified the right document (Appendix D), the figures are hard to find. You have to get all the way to pages 13 & 14 before you discover that 64% rejected the closure of Dulwich Village junction. More results – between 64% and 69% against – appear on pages 16, 19, 23, 26, 29 and 32.

To help clear up this confusion, we have pulled out the headline statistics on each road measure and put them together in one document here. If you want to see the original report, there is a three-step process. First, you have to go to www.southwark.gov.uk/dulwichstreetspacereview. Then you have to click on the link at the end of the first paragraph. Finally you have to scroll down till you find the link entitled “Appendix D - Dulwich Review Consultation Report”. However, you should (in theory) be able to short-circuit access to the original report by clicking here.

Overall, as you can see from the table above and the ‘Road Changes: Summary of Responses’ on page 3 of our document, two out of every three people living and working in the Dulwich LTNs who answered the survey rejected the measures. Only one in five people supported them.

The consultation was presented by Southwark Council as the opportunity for local people to make their views on the measures known. It involved a lengthy engagement process and resulted in a very high response rate. But in spite of the majority of people taking part wanting the road measures removed, Southwark has chosen to disregard the results of its own consultation and press ahead regardless .

If you feel as angry about this as we do, please email your local councillors and MP Helen Hayes (copying in the official address for comments streetspace@southwark.gov.uk) before Monday 27 September, and ask them, as our representatives, to tell the council that this is undemocratic, unjust and unacceptable.