Kemble Street area

Thank you to everyone who took part in the consultation. We have now decided to go ahead with the changes. You can read full details in the decision report. We expect to start making changes in spring.

We want our streets to have more safe space for everyone to walk and cycle, for children to get to and from school safely and healthily, for businesses to be able to flourish, to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles, and for you to be breathing cleaner air.

The Council has secured funding via a legal agreement from the Space House redevelopment to deliver pedestrian, cycling, and environmental improvements nearby.

This includes changing the junction of Kemble Street and Wild Street to improve how the road and the hard and soft landscaping improvements being delivered via the redevelopment works within the site boundary fit together.

At Kemble Street we want to make it safer and easier to cross the road and take the opportunity to enhance urban greening. This could allow for plants or a tree to be planted as part of the built out space.

On Kemble Street we are going to:

• Widen the pavement at the junction of Kemble Street and Wild Street to slow traffic, make it easier to cross the road, and provide space for urban greening. This will include the removal of two pay by phone parking bays.

• The area around the new widened space will have double yellow lines provided to keep the junction clear from parking, making it safer and easier to cross the road, in line with our Borough-wide safer junctions programme as part of our Road Safety Action Plan

• Change the single yellow lines at the junction of Wild Street and Keeley Street to double yellow lines to keep the junction clear from parking, as above.

• Add dropped kerbs and tactile paving slabs across Wild Street at the junction with Kemble Street to make it easier for people to cross the road.