South London council faces High Court challenge from residents over ‘flawed’ low-traffic neighbourhood plan

West Dulwich Action Group has accused the assembly of “disregarding” nationalist sentiment aft implementing the program contempt wide disapproval.

Legal documents seen by the Standard uncover that 67.5 per cent of consulted residents were "unhappy" oregon "very unhappy" with the proposal. Despite this, the assembly has pushed guardant with an 18-month proceedings of the scheme, which aims to trim postulation successful residential areas.

The West Dulwich Action Group is present seeking to overturn the LTN done ineligible action.

Their determination comes arsenic video footage emerged showing agelong queues of postulation connected Lancaster Road from West Norwood, conscionable days aft the scheme’s implementation.

“Have ne'er seen this magnitude of postulation successful each the clip I person lived successful this country and walked on this road,” a Lambeth nonmigratory tweeted.

The assembly says that specified measures are needed to comply with its biology aims and this proceedings is portion of a broader policy.

The enactment radical truthful argues that the council’s steps spell against authorities direction.

A spokesperson for the enactment radical said: “Once again, Lambeth Council is riding roughshod implicit the wishes of the immense bulk of its residents, showing a blatant disregard for contamination and collision data.

“The assembly refuses to perceive oregon prosecute with the community, insisting it knows champion contempt grounds to the contrary.

“Democracy has been replaced with diktats, arsenic councillors and unit relentlessly prosecute a greenish ideology, careless of whether their policies really amended the environment.”

“[LTNs] are designed to marque residential streets safer, promote radical to locomotion and rhythm much and trim aerial pollution,” a erstwhile connection read.

The radical has present raised £30,000 to situation the assembly successful court.

A further connection released connected Sunday greeting further accused the assembly of “botching” the announcement, moving the commencement day and failing to instal infrastructure.

A root told the Telegraph: “Seemingly arsenic a effect of the hostility to the proposals, the assembly members and officers who had attended took an aboriginal luncheon interruption and besides subsequently concluded the lawsuit aboriginal specified that anyone who arrived during the unadvertised luncheon interruption oregon towards the extremity of the advertised clip slot was incapable to participate.”

The entreaty is present with the High Court and the radical is waiting to perceive whether a proceeding volition spell ahead.

The assembly has said of the request to instal LTNs: “Low postulation neighbourhoods marque it safer and easier to walk, wheel, scoot and rhythm by stopping cars, vans and different vehicles from utilizing quiescent streets arsenic shortcuts.

“Over time, LTNs tin promote radical to power from driving to much sustainable ways of travelling, similar walking, nationalist transport and cycling.

“This is 1 of the ways we tin tackle the clime exigency successful Lambeth.”

There are present respective schemes operating successful the borough since the argumentation became integrated wrong London from the crook of the decade.

A Lambeth Council spokesperson said: “Lambeth Council is moving to marque the neighbourhoods of our interior London borough safer and healthier for all, particularly section children, the susceptible and the elderly.

“Lambeth has immoderate of the country’s astir polluted air, lacks outdoor abstraction for workout and socialising for the galore section radical who unrecorded successful flats, and unsafe roads resulting successful excessively galore radical getting injured.

“The West Dulwich thoroughfare improvements task supports these aims, and were created successful effect to concern and residents’ appeals. It is an 18-month proceedings strategy and volition beryllium continually monitored by Lambeth Council.

“We person thoroughly engaged with the section assemblage throughout, and determination volition beryllium further opportunities for section radical to feedback during the people of the trial.”