Harmood Street Safe and Healthy Streets

In February/March 2022 we consulted on making permanent changes on Harmood Street. Following the consultation we have now decided to make the consultation proposals permanent including:

• Moving the existing motor vehicle restriction closer to the junction with Clarence Way

• Adding a raised pedestrian crossing at the new location of the motor vehicle restriction.

• Permanently converting the Pay for Parking to resident parking.

You can read all the full details along with our feedback to the consultation responses in the decision report.

What was the issue on Harmood Street?

In June 2020 we received a petition from local residents requesting the reduction of motor vehicle though traffic on Harmood Street. Traffic counts were conducted on Harmood Street in September 2020 and showed that the volumes of motor vehicle traffic using the street are high for a residential street. There is an excess of an average of 2000 motor vehicles a day - 787 motor vehicles per day moving northbound and 1307 moving southbound.

As a direct response to the petition and the traffic counts we proposed a motor vehicle traffic restriction on Harmood Street. During December 2020 we consulted on the proposed scheme. The consultation is now closed but you can read details of the consultation and our response to it on our Harmood Street Consultation .

How have we responded to this challenge?

Following the consultation, we made the decision to add a motor vehicle traffic restriction on Harmood Street. You can read the decision report . This prevented motor vehicles from proceeding, in both directions, past a point approximately 20 meters south of the junction of Harmood Street with Clarence Way.

Properties in the area of Harmood Street to the north of the restriction were accessible via Prince of Wales Road. Properties in the area of Harmood Street to the south of the restriction were accessible via Chalk Farm Road

This measure was introduced to reduce the high levels of through traffic which use Harmood Street to access Prince of Wales Road to the north and Chalk Farm Road to the south and gave added protection to those visiting the Camden Centre for Learning.

Changes included:

• An ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) camera enforced motor vehicle restriction south of the junction of Harmood Street with Clarence Way to prevent motor vehicles from proceeding, in either directions, through the restriction along Harmood Street
• No Motor Vehicle signs and planters on the road and bollards on the pavement to enforce the restriction
• Relocated 4 resident parking spaces on Harmood Street, east of the restriction, to the west side of the street, opposite of the junction of Harmood Street with Clarence Way. The space currently allocated to parking on the eastern side will be converted to double yellow lines