Bowes Primary Area Quieter Neighbourhood

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The Bowes Primary and Surrounding Streets Quieter Neighbourhood (QN) was implemented as a trial in September 2020 using experimental traffic orders, and made permanent in January 2022. The objectives of the project were to create healthier streets within the area, significantly reduce the volume of through motor traffic and enable a longer-term increase in walking and cycling levels. The trial was funded from the first tranche of the Department for Transport Emergency Active Travel Fund, an initiative that was launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Modal filters are at the following locations:

  • Maidstone Road at its junction with Warwick Road
  • York Road at its junction with Brownlow Road
  • Palmerston Road northbound at its junction with the A406 North Circular Road
  • Existing width restriction on Warwick Road, near its junction with Maidstone Road, replaced with point closure for all vehicles except for emergency vehicles and service vehicles

A restriction was introduced at Palmerston Road at the junction with Kelvin Avenue via a new traffic island restricting right turns from Palmerston Road into Kelvin Avenue. A 20mph maximum speed limit was also introduced on some roads.

During the trial, a range of monitoring activities were carried out to assess the impacts of the scheme. Residents, businesses and other stakeholders had the opportunity to share their comments through the consultation period which commenced at the beginning of the trial and ran until 2 May 2021. A further opportunity to comment was provided in November 2021. The findings from these activities were summarised in the decision report which can be found here.

More information

Project updates are posted under the Project Updates tab on this page below. You can also find FAQs here.

The Bowes Primary and Surrounding Streets Quieter Neighbourhood (QN) was implemented as a trial in September 2020 using experimental traffic orders, and made permanent in January 2022. The objectives of the project were to create healthier streets within the area, significantly reduce the volume of through motor traffic and enable a longer-term increase in walking and cycling levels. The trial was funded from the first tranche of the Department for Transport Emergency Active Travel Fund, an initiative that was launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Modal filters are at the following locations:

  • Maidstone Road at its junction with Warwick Road
  • York Road at its junction with Brownlow Road
  • Palmerston Road northbound at its junction with the A406 North Circular Road
  • Existing width restriction on Warwick Road, near its junction with Maidstone Road, replaced with point closure for all vehicles except for emergency vehicles and service vehicles

A restriction was introduced at Palmerston Road at the junction with Kelvin Avenue via a new traffic island restricting right turns from Palmerston Road into Kelvin Avenue. A 20mph maximum speed limit was also introduced on some roads.

During the trial, a range of monitoring activities were carried out to assess the impacts of the scheme. Residents, businesses and other stakeholders had the opportunity to share their comments through the consultation period which commenced at the beginning of the trial and ran until 2 May 2021. A further opportunity to comment was provided in November 2021. The findings from these activities were summarised in the decision report which can be found here.

More information

Project updates are posted under the Project Updates tab on this page below. You can also find FAQs here.

  • Update 18th March 2021

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    Please find below an update on a number of aspects of the Bowes Primary and Surrounding Streets Quieter Neighbourhood.

    Public Consultation closing Sunday 2 May 2021

    • In addition to the ongoing monitoring activities we are undertaking to understand the impacts of the trial, we continue to review feedback received about the scheme. The consultation survey has been open since the 28th September 2020. An external company is analysing the feedback and will be providing a report summarising the feedback received.
    • The opportunity for comment was originally intended to last for 6 months, however we have extended this period and intend to continue to take comment up until Sunday 2nd May 2021.
    • Whilst we continue to review the data during the feedback period, closing the survey for comments will provide a period of time for our external consultants to prepare the report and for the Council to then review this to inform the next steps for the project. The Council is anticipating the publication of next steps report in the Summer of 2021.

    Public webinar Thursday 18 March 2021

    • An online public webinar will be held Thursday 18th March 2021 from 6.30pm to 8.00pm. Letters, emails and posters have been distributed and social media posts have been made to advertise the webinar.
    • The first part of the webinar will be an opportunity to hear from the project team about the monitoring and evaluation plan, consultation and engagement activities, and the Equalities Impact Assessment. Following this we will host a question and answer session to listen and respond to issues raised by residents.
    • The webinar will be recorded and available to watch after the event.

    Engagement with people with disabilities and carers, and Equalities Impact Assessment

    • A particular focus area for us over the next few months is engaging specifically with members of the community with disabilities, representative groups of people with disabilities, and carers. We have contacted Blue Badge holders directly with a further survey to gather more insights. We also directly contacted those who completed the consultation survey on this page and identified as having a disability, receiving care assistance in their home, or as a carer. The feedback collected will inform our ongoing Equalities Impact Assessment and be considered alongside feedback collected through the main consultation survey and other monitoring activities when making decisions on the future of the scheme.
    • This survey is open until the 31st March 2021. We are looking to arrange focus groups with residents which will provide a further opportunity to discuss feedback on the scheme in greater depth. We are currently working through how these may look given Covid-19 restrictions.

    Project documentation and project page updates

    • We have made several updates to this project page. The main body of this page has been updated, and we have also reorganised the Document Library and FAQs (found on the right hand side of the page) to make things easier to find.
    • Four new documents have been uploaded to the Document Library. These provide information on the rationale of the scheme, communications and engagement activities, our approach to equalities, and how we are monitoring the scheme.
    • The information aims to provide some context around the activities we have been carrying out over the past months since the scheme was implemented. They also set out the information which will be used to inform future decisions about the scheme.
    • We have also renamed all the documents so they are listed in the order in which they were first published to make it easier to read through and find them. All files that were previously uploaded remain on the project page.
    • We have added a number of new FAQs. All FAQs have been placed into subfolders which we hope makes finding a question you might have easier.

    Next Steps

    • Explore with Haringey whether there are opportunities for a wider area approach that crosses Borough boundaries. This work will include consideration of how the proposed Bus Gate for Brownlow Road is incorporated into a wider area plan.
    • Develop a report which will set out the feedback received from residents and other stakeholders and provide an update on the outcomes of further monitoring completed as traffic starts to return to ‘normal’ (as lockdown restrictions are eased).
    • This report will be reviewed by elected members who will use the detail of the report to inform their decision making. This report is expected to be published in Summer 21 and its recommendations will be dependent upon the circumstances at that time, particularly in relation to the Covid-19 crisis.

    Other updates in the Bowes Primary Area

    You may be aware Enfield Council has advertised the intention to install electric vehicle chargers in lamp columns on a number of streets in Enfield as part of a trial. Whilst this project is being managed by another team in the Council, the combination of a range of initiatives will contribute towards achieving the aims of strategies such as the Climate Action Plan and Health & Wellbeing work. Details of this can be found at this link(External link).

  • Update 5th February 2021

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    We have received a large number of responses regarding the implementation of the Bowes Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) and we really value your feedback.

    We are providing this update to advise you that Haringey has now been allocated funding to engage with residents regarding a potential LTN in Bounds Green to complement the LTN in Bowes. Haringey is delivering letters to advise residents of their Bounds Green LTN early engagement to hear views on the issues being faced in the area and changes residents would like to see. Their engagement is open from today, 5th February, to the 7th March 2021, and a link to this can be found at their website page here: https://www.haringey.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-travel/travel/transport-strategy/low-traffic-neighbourhoods-haringey

    Haringey’s engagement is complementary to our ongoing engagement to monitor the implementation of the Bowes LTN, which you can access at the bottom of this page.

Page last updated: 21 Dec 2023, 05:47 PM