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Report of the Director for Environment and Resident Services. To be introduced  by the Cabinet Member for Cabinet Member for Climate Action, Environment & Transport.

Consider all feedback, objections and monitoring data of the trial LTN (including trial HGV ban on Belmont Road / Downhills Way) and decide whether to make permanent the associated traffic orders.

Councillor Sarah Williams left the meeting room for the consideration of this item at 7.02pm

Councillor Mike Hakata, Cabinet Member for Climate Action, Environment, and Transport introduced the report which sought approval to make the LTN trial in Bruce Grove and West Green permanent.

In response to questions from Cllr Chandwani and Cllr Cawley- Harrison the following was noted.

• There was a team that had been working on designing, managing and running various road schemes.
• In relation to emergency works, from the beginning, there had been a procedure for diversion through LTN’s and School Streets in the event of planned emergency street works. The procedure was created at the start without being able to live test how those the interventions would work. A review could be held regarding the procedure as a way forward.
• In relation to the smooth running of public transport in LTN’s and boundary roads, it was important to have reliable sustainable transport. There had been high disruption at the beginning, but this had eased off.
• The Council’s estates had always been designed according to LTN principles. The Council needed to be mindful of this and its subsequential impacts. The Council had begun the work of exploring solutions which would redress some of the issues on Broadwater Farm.
• In relation to the process and protocols in place, the traffic team can undertake a review to make sure that LTNs were optimised and as effective as possible. One protocol in place was designed to ensure that there was flexibility to open and ease congestion where there were delays due to road works or other such issues. Sometimes when there were road accidents, the Council was not always notified of them early enough and it was difficult for the Council to be immediately responsive. When the Council was aware, being able to open or make a decision around opening to redirect traffic was always something the Council was able to consider.
• In relation to undertaking a review, the Council would make a commitment to do it within the next few months.
• The ongoing projects such as trying to improve bus journey times and reliability was in the feasibility stage. There was a similar scheme around West Green Road looking at improving bus journey reliability and also looking at how to manage traffic flow through CCTV cameras. The same was true for Belmont Road and West Green Road and other roads in the borough. including the Tottenham area. All these were underway to help manage congestion.
• On average, across all LTN areas, there had been a reduction in road danger of 34% - a reduction in collisions. This was a reduction of one third. However, Bruce Grove, West Green, the most deprived of all three LTNs with some of the lowest car ownership numbers had seen a reduction of 56%. This was a reduction of around 20 serious collisions over a year. What had been shown across LTN areas and throughout the wider nation itself, was there had been  ...  view the full minutes text for item 93