News on S Chiswick Liveable Neighbourhood

Thanks to everyone who attended our recent events at St Paul’s Church. All three sessions were well-attended, and it was great to hear about your wide-ranging transport issues. I was involved in conversations around residents’ parking, potholes, bus routes, gated communities, school traffic, subways, the relocation of Brentford Football Club… and much more besides.

Any successful Liveable Neighbourhood project will need to be founded upon close engagement with the local community, so I’m delighted these events have helped us get off to such a positive start. We’ve now received over 500 individual comments on the project website, while the number of total contributions (those who have read, commented and agreed with other comments) has passed the 3000 mark!

In recent weeks, the project team has met with Chiswick House and Gardens Trust and Grove Park Primary School, while we have a meeting planned with the Strand on the Green Infant & Nursery School. We are also due to meet with South Western Railway and are in close communication with Network Rail – these relationships will be of particular importance given the feedback we are receiving on the challenges of crossing the railway line.

As part of this project, the council commissioned work to gather a wide range of traffic data. Tubes attached to the road surface measured traffic speeds and volumes, and vehicle size. Video cameras captured origin and destination data, which will help us understand what proportion of traffic is using residential streets as a cut through between major roads, rather than starting or ending its journey in the local area. We have received the raw data from the survey company this week and have just begun to analyse it. We will share it with you shortly along with a summary of the key findings, which should be a bit easier to digest than the spreadsheets!

There are just over two weeks left in the initial consultation phase, so please continue to spread the word among your family, friends and neighbours, and encourage them to add their feedback!