Lewisham Council has set out changes to its first low traffic neighbourhood, in Lee Green and Hither Green, to help relieve traffic congestion in neighbouring areas. The changes include allowing vehicles, except HGVs, through the camera-enforced barrier in Manor Lane and adjusting the existing cameras on Ennersdale Road and Dermody Road to allow vehicles to travel one-way west to east. It’s also […]
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We’ll fix Lee Green low traffic neighbourhood, Lewisham mayor says
Lewisham’s elected mayor has conceded that a scheme to boost walking and cycling in parts of Lee Green and Hither Green has caused increased traffic in neighbouring areas – but wants to make changes to the programme rather than scrap it altogether. Barriers and bus gates have been put in place at 13 locations from […]
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‘Healthy neighbourhood’ Lee Green road closures to begin next week
Trial barriers will be put in residential streets in Lee Green and Lewisham from Monday, with residents getting less than a week’s notice because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Lewisham Council had already planned to do a six-month trial scheme before the lockdown, where roads would be blocked off to through traffic as part of the Lewisham and Lee […]
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Nine-day rail closure coming at Hither Green because of virus restrictions
Railway lines through Hither Green will be closed for nine days from 25 July to allow Network Rail to finish work on a new signalling system that has been delayed because of the coronavirus. Engineers had hoped to finish work replacing the old 1970s signalling system through the station over Easter, but because of social […]
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Lewisham Council road closures plan ‘prioritises some lives over others’
Controversial plans to block off roads in Lee, Hither Green and Lewisham – including several on or close to the Lewisham/Greenwich borough border – as part of a “healthy neighbourhoods” scheme have been criticised at a public meeting, with Lewisham Council accused of prioritising some people’s lives over others. The council was criticised at the Lewisham […]
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South Circular air pollution: Crowdfund for new Ella inquest hearing hits £25,000 target
A crowdfunding campaign to raise £25,000 for a High Court hearing into the death of a nine-year-old asthmatic girl who lived next to the polluted South Circular Road at Hither Green has hit its target. The success means Rosamund Kissi-Debrah will be able to make a case to the High Court to grant a new […]
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£11k needed for hearing into South Circular air pollution death after legal aid refusal
Hither Green mother and clean air campaigner Rosamund Kissi-Debrah is one step closer to a new inquest into her daughter’s death – but needs to raise £11,000 in four weeks to apply to the High Court. Ella Kissi-Debrah died in February 2013 from acute respiratory failure after years of coughing fits and seizures, and 27 […]
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