Berrylands potential Healthy Street improvements

Overview

Kingston Council’s vision is to create cleaner, greener neighbourhoods, and our streets play a major role in this plan. We want everyone to feel our streets are spaces where they can breathe clean air, walk safely and feel connected to the local community.

We can achieve this by putting in place measures to reduce the speed and volume of traffic and provide good facilities to encourage more people to make more journeys by sustainable modes of transport such as walking, cycling and public transport. Fewer vehicles on the roads can improve air quality and road safety. People moving around actively helps to improve their health and wellbeing.

We have identified Berrylands as an area which could benefit from further area-wide Healthy Streets highway improvement measures. Download a map of the Berrylands area.

On 3 November 2022 Surbiton Neighbourhood Committee agreed to engage with residents and stakeholders about potential improvements that could be made in the area.

This project has an allocation of funding from Transport for London.

Potential Schemes

We have identified potential improvements in Berrylands through the collection and analysis of the traffic data, accident data and data about the volume, origin and destination of traffic in the area, which all helps us to map out the movement of people in an area and understand travel behaviour better. You can find out more about our data below.

We have also surveyed the area using the ‘Healthy Streets’ approach. We've used TfL’s Healthy Streets toolkit to help us look at how we can improve air quality, reduce congestion and help make the Berrylands area greener, fairer and safer places to live, work, play and do business. You can download a summary of the approach and indicators for more information about healthy streets.

We want your views

Improving the health of our streets affects everyone who lives in the area.

We want to know what you think about a range of potential measures to make areas in Berrylands identified by our analysis, safer and healthier. Your views about our draft proposals are really important, along with any other comments and suggestions you may have to improve the area. There are a number of different ways to give us your views:

• Complete our survey
• If you have any particular questions or would like to talk to us in person, join us at our final drop in session at the Tolworth Emmanuel Church of England on 26 September anytime between 7pm and 9pm. Emmanuel Tolworth is located at 1 Grand Avenue, opposite the top entrance to Grand Avenue School. Don't forget if you can't make it to this final session, you can still share your thoughts using the survey.
• Email us at streetspace@kingston.gov.uk if you need information in a different format, a paper copy of the survey, or would like any support to give us your views
• Write to us at Highways and Transport, Guildhall 2, High Street, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 1EU

Please share your thoughts by 30 September 2023.

The next steps

No decisions have been made yet.

The feedback we receive from you via our survey and drop-in sessions will be considered, along with the traffic data and healthy street indicators. This will help us to finalise an initial set of measures, which will be presented to the Surbiton Neighbourhood Committee for consideration later this year.

The report for the committee will recommend measures that could be progressed and implemented using the funds available, and identify a set of measures that could be delivered over the longer term once more funding is available.

We will write to residents to inform you of the committee decision.

Contact details

If you would like be sent a paper copy of the plan and survey to fill in and send back or need any help submitting your comments to us, please email streetspace@kingston.gov.uk or call our contact centre on 0208 547 5000 and ask for a member of the Sustainable Transport & Commissioning team to call you back.

Local data

Please find below more information about the data we used as part of our analysis:

• Raeburn Avenue (30min) O&D.pdf (720 KB) (pdf)
• Raeburn Avenue (15min) O&D.pdf (720 KB) (pdf)
• Berrylands Road O&D (715 KB) (pdf)
• Elmbridge Avenue (A3) O&D (727 KB) (pdf)
• Hollyfield Road O&D (722 KB) (pdf)
• Elgar Avenue O&D (722 KB) (pdf)
• Traffic count locations
• Accident data

Existing schemes

Vehicles are already restricted on King Charles Road and a School Street is in place next to Christ Church C of E Primary School, in Pine Gardens.

What happens next

We are reviewing your feedback and a report will be taken to the Surbiton Neighbourhood Committee later in June 2024. The report of feedback has been delayed so that community petitions on King Charles Road LTN can be received at a special meeting of the Place Committee in May 2024. This will enable any decisions made as a result to be reflected in the recommendations of the Berrylands Healthy Streets report.