Planning our future London

the days of centralisation are numbered-or at least will be balanced by a more hybrid approach- better for the environment, better for transport overcrowding, better for local shops, better for local communities. think we shoukd be targeting more localisation - more walking/cycling, more using local shops/goods/services, less travel, more community based

All over. I live central, and enjoy seeing the office workers emerge for meals and evening drinks. But suburban people, perhaps with families might prefer to avoid commuting. So office centres such as Ilford/Romford/Croydon - why not?

Office work remains obvious. But more arts, creative, music related? Silly to think of a return to manufacturing, except on the outskirt. 

Keep Smithfield and New Covent Garden - silly to export them from central areas - there are limits to fancy fair places like Covent Garden. Silly to move the Museum of London, and specially to close it four years before opening the successor. 

Successful high street? No views.

Heat pumps are not the answer where they need to be retrofitted on old properties they take up considerable amount punt of room and don’t heat to comfortable level, more research is needed before they are pushed.  
Solar panels should be installed on all new properties, retrofit should be easy but my experience of Solar Together was that it was very poorly managed.
Measures to decrease private car use should be continued including ULEZ but at a slower pace so local communities are involved rather than having them imposed.  Cycling should be encouraged but not at the expense of compromising safety and facilities for pedestrians.

More social housing especially in central London so everyone can afford to live and work there not just those on enormous salaries 
Heavy tax on empty homes to prevent the investment buyers who have no interest in local communities

Incentives for independent shops to open on high streets 

Successful high streets have high foot fall, a good mixture of shops, places to socialise and are accessible.

Mixed developments should be welcomed but with good and interesting design not just bland boxes, they should include housing 

The questions / response options were very limited and were designed to give one type of feedback that backs the current administration’s policies.

Londoners want:

• Houses with gardens and parking rather than flats
• Less anti car / mobility measures 
• Tidy green spaces i.e. cut the grass and trim trees / shrubs 
• Reversal of population growth so that services can cope
• Reduction in expensive “net zero” initiatives 

Scrap the LTNs, which are always accompanied by other areas becoming HTWAUPNs (Higher Traffic with Added Unnnecessary Pollution Neighbourhoods), and extra driving time, distance, and fuel consumption for, and extra pollution casued by, drivers who live in the LTN. And they decrease the trade of local businesses.

If roadworks, etc cause traffic problems, reopen closed roads while the roadworks are there, and divert that traffic through them, so people can get to work quicker, cheaper, anad, for the planet as a whole, cleaner.

Means test personal ULEZ fees to ensure that only citizens who can afford to upgrade their vehicle actually have to do so.

I have cycled for over 60 years, and the roads were good enough for me. No need to go overboard on cycle lanes. Protecting bus routes, on the other hand, have been and are a good idea. Bus services have improved, and it's not entirely due to privatisation (which was an unmitigated disaster wherever monopolies remained after it).

Allow carriage of e-transport on public transport wherever this can be done without fire risk (not that I have plans to use e-transport personally).

Find a way of making the cowboys in solar, etc pay for their abuse of people.

Scrap 20mph zones on all main roads keeping them on residential side streets. They only slow traffic and increase congestion and pollution.

Get rid of humps in all streets; cars speeding up and then slowing down for the humps increases noise and pollution and created more CO2.

Recognise that as nice as it would be for more and better cycling, it cannot come at the expense of creating more traffic, congestion and pollution with all of the lane closures

Repeal ULEZ given it is nothing more than a political boondoggle.

Properly review 20mph zones that only seem to slow traffic and increase congestion and pollution (pollution reduction is purportedly meant to be a priority even though the consequences of actions don't seem to show this to be an actual concern)

Stop making local businesses suffer with all of the congestion zoning and penalties

Recognise that as nice as it would be for more and better cycling, it cannot come at the expense of creating more traffic, congestion and pollution with all of the lane closures

Properly staff TFL such that stations stop randomly shutting due to "staff shortages"

Firstly we need to look at the needs of the community and the numbers that the area's can support along with research into the effects of high density living conditions on both physical and mental health and have these factors resulted in the current social ills we are all suffering from such as crime including drug dealing, problems with personal safety and failure to identify the needs of each demographic.

Secondly we have lost the have lost the community spirit and there is an expectation that the state will carry the burden.  Also the failure of the leaders to recognise reality and ensure that their decisions are practical. 

Stop spending money on vanity projects or spending unnecessarily for example the Mayor for London has installed 7 ULEZ cameras off a road which will outside the proposed extension which are dead ends this would suggest 98,000 drivers would need to pay the charge to cover the capital cost of installing the cameras.

We have not learned from the mistakes of the past.

I would like to remove all of the areas where 20 mph restrictions have been put in place. They are dangerous and create pollution. Replace these with educating people to check it's safe to cross before they step off the pavement. By all means have small specific areas at 20 mph where it makes sense (e.g. schools). Why dangerous? 20 mph is too slow and to maintain this low speed one has to keep looking at speedometer and hence not on the road.

Pollution is falling year by year and so back step on the idea of making all of greater London a ULEZ area. Old cars will drop out soon enough and many cannot afford to replace their current vehicles in the near future.

In order to keep high streets alive free parking, even in paying car parks, for a limited period should be the norm.

• Reply
• Delete

Review the "congestion charge".  It is a tax and is killing London's life and businesses.  London is a commercial hub and people and goods need to be able to move in it economically.  Speaking personally, I can no longer go to the theatre (even the NT) because of the cost of the CC, which applies until late. I can no longer go to museums on a Sunday, because of the cost of the CC.  I am a disabled pensioner and need to drive as public transport is difficult for me, and I cannot afford taxis.

I would like to see more jobs and premises for

care for elderly / sick - 10 million people in London with too few care systems 

creates jobs, saves strain and relieves NHS.

continuing to build with no extra schools, doctors surgeries, dentists, care systems, hospitals is stupid. Additional people will break and already strained and overrun services.

continuing to build on green spaces takes away precious space for recreation, mental health and removes our trees and foliage vital to being able to hit carbon emission targets. 

ULEZ 

clean up the air quality in the underground before you implement ULEZ. You are pushing more people to use public transport which is far more poisonous air quality than on the streets.

focusing on solar and heat pumps as a way to achieving net zero will create many jobs and a growing employment sector.