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Scrap pavement widening in Oxford Street
I think the best thing for Oxford Street is to immediately stop the further pavement widening. This is going to cause terrible pollution and congestion. You are removing the indents where buses and taxis pickup and alight passengers. This will cause all other traffic to queue behind causing even more pollution. Plus there are going to be far fewer pedestrians visiting Oxford Street as there are only two large shops left, Selfridges and John Lewis. (apparently House of Frazer is the next to leave). If the empty shops are going to be taken over by smaller outlets such as can be seen in every high street and shopping centre there is absolutely no need for people to come into Oxford Street anymore. I have also heard that buses will only stop once in Oxford Street, this is another ridiculous plan. What about the disabled, elderly, mums with young children? A lot of traffic will use Wigmore Street and other surrounding streets in order to dodge the congested Oxford Street as it will become. These side streets are heavily populated by residents who will be subjected to more pollution.
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Community Member 3 years agoMy neighbourhood would be transformed for the better if the hospitality and entertainments industry could be redistributed away from the centre, out into the many local London centres. This means redeveloping and transforming local high...
Show full commentMy neighbourhood would be transformed for the better if the hospitality and entertainments industry could be redistributed away from the centre, out into the many local London centres. This means redeveloping and transforming local high streets and their environs all around London. Investors would have to be found - the Mayor's little seeding funding is risible, not going to make any difference. Policies urgently need to be changed - like the one that allows local high streets earmarked (by Johnson, was it?) for redevelopments. This has allowed a free-for-all, hideous gigantic buildings dropped into local high streets without any reason, without any aesthetic consideration, with no regard for what the locale needs. Change that policy with all possible speed, Mayor Khan, and de-designate the local 'town' centres it has targeted (eg Swiss Cottage). Instead, set up well-thought-out, eco-friendly, sustainable, people-centred redesign of areas in each borough - a coherent and integrated plan for each one that results in a network of cultural and green centres for locals that will also attract tourists and visitors from other boroughs and neighbourhoods. Rethink London.
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Community Member 3 years agoIf local councils were made responsible for ensuring a healthy living environment for their residents, regardless of whether their home streets are next to or mixed with a commercial, industrial or retail locality, as a priority over...
Show full commentIf local councils were made responsible for ensuring a healthy living environment for their residents, regardless of whether their home streets are next to or mixed with a commercial, industrial or retail locality, as a priority over commercial needs and influence, we could have healthier areas for residents and the shoppers and workers. As it is councils do not have to bother much - residential 'amenity' has less and less weight when it comes to urban planning and practice these days. The London mayor & GLA should make 'liveability' a much stronger policy and requirement in London plans, and not have it overridden by other considerations.
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Community Member 3 years agoReinstate the bus routes needed by residents around Oxford Street for getting to essential NHS & other health appointments (that are now located 3 bus rides away). Introduce LTNs for the residential areas around Oxford Street to reduce the...
Show full commentReinstate the bus routes needed by residents around Oxford Street for getting to essential NHS & other health appointments (that are now located 3 bus rides away). Introduce LTNs for the residential areas around Oxford Street to reduce the air and noise pollution - put the deliveries and waste collections on Oxford Street, not in the residential streets. Ensure that redevelopers like John Lewis provide social rental housing when they convert their Oxford Street and similar stores from retail to other uses. Provide funds for councils to fight judicial reviews so they can make developers and redevelopers devise better schemes that benefit local communities and housing for essential London workers.
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Community Member 4 years agoDue consideration should be given to adjoining areas when bus and cycle lanes are proposed as it divert the traffic to already congested roads thereby impacted on the health of residents.
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Community Member 3 years agoThey did consider, way back, and decided to pretend those residents are not there.
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Community Member 4 years agoAbsolutely agree. The pavements are already wide enough. Other connected ideas are a good example of spending money where it is not needed. We don’t need vanity schemes. We need a focus on issues such as truly affordable housing so invest...
Show full commentAbsolutely agree. The pavements are already wide enough. Other connected ideas are a good example of spending money where it is not needed. We don’t need vanity schemes. We need a focus on issues such as truly affordable housing so invest the money in that direction instead.
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Community Member 3 years agoThat silly little hump at the far end of Oxford Street, costing £150m that should have been used to provide staff to 'police' the Street Performers/Buskers Licensing scheme, and to pay for better social care in the borough (add you own...
Show full commentThat silly little hump at the far end of Oxford Street, costing £150m that should have been used to provide staff to 'police' the Street Performers/Buskers Licensing scheme, and to pay for better social care in the borough (add you own example of starved-of-funds council services here......................).
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Community Member 4 years agoTraffic should be banned altogether in favour of rail and trams:
Show full commentKhan should build a canal in the middle, with cycle paths either side: Now that would be worth of a visit (and possibly international acclaim). Alternatively, a tram system...
Traffic should be banned altogether in favour of rail and trams:
Show less of commentKhan should build a canal in the middle, with cycle paths either side: Now that would be worth of a visit (and possibly international acclaim). Alternatively, a tram system might do.
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Community Member 3 years agoI doubt that trams could be made quiet enough for the Oxford Street residents, & those living in the streets just off and near Oxford Street. Planners like to pretend it is a resident-free area, but it is not.
Show full commentI doubt that trams could be made quiet enough for the Oxford Street residents, & those living in the streets just off and near Oxford Street. Planners like to pretend it is a resident-free area, but it is not.
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