Research

One Dulwich Documents

Using the links below, you can read the proposals made to the Council by One Dulwich (and associated background documents), and details about our own ongoing research.

Our Healthy Streets: Dulwich Area B Proposal

Our first document (submitted on 27 April 2020), in which we offered to work with Southwark Councillors and Officers to develop modified proposals that would balance the needs of the whole community, such that whatever solution we reached together could be trialled and win everyone’s support.

One Dulwich Proposal for Traffic Restrictions in Area B

In this outline discussion document (submitted to the Council on 28 May 2020 - PLEASE NOTE THIS DOCUMENT WAS IN RESPONSE TO PARAMETERS SET BY OUR COUNCILLORS IN MAY 2020), we set out the background for timed restrictions, as used in School Streets, inner-city restricted traffic zones, and TfL’s Liveable Neighbourhoods, and suggested possible ways of conducting a quick, cheap and easy trial using the existing junction layout.

One Dulwich Response to Experimental Traffic Order

In this document (submitted to the Council on 12 June 2020), we explained, in detail, the grave concerns we had about the rushed - and empirically questionable - proposal to justify the closure of Dulwich Village junction as part of the COVID-19 Post-Lockdown Highway Scheme.

Who closed Dulwich Village junction?

During 2019 and 2020, Southwark Council carried out a public consultation, in three phases, on roads and traffic in Dulwich. An FOI (Freedom of Information) request has revealed the data behind the published results of Phase 2. As documented in this study, Southwark’s claim that there was popular local support for closing Dulwich Village junction is simply untrue.

Has cycling on Calton Avenue gone up by 231%?

We examine one of the central statistics in the July 2021 monitoring report.

Southwark Council Documents

Using the links below, you can read the consultation papers issued by Southwark Council (and other associated Southwark Council documents).

The Permanent Traffic Orders (Feb 2022)

Please click on the link above to view a copy of the London Gazette dated 10 February which contains the permanent traffic orders for each of the following:

  • Calton Avenue, Court Lane, Dulwich Village (notice ID 3989893) Road Traffic Acts | The Gazette | Page 2431

  • Champion Hill (notice ID 3989892) Road Traffic Acts | The Gazette | Page 2442

  • East Dulwich area (notice ID 3989896) Road Traffic Acts | The Gazette | Page 2442

  • Timed restrictions Burbage, Turney, Townley, Dulwich Village (notice ID 3989894) Road Traffic Acts | The Gazette | Page 2432

Dulwich Area Traffic Management Study commissioned by Southwark April 2018

The study covers three wards comprising East Dulwich, Village and College.

Councillors’ Code of Conduct

The council has a duty to promote and maintain high standards of conduct, as defined in its Councillors’ Code of Conduct.

Our Healthy Streets - Dulwich (Phase 3)

This website contains information about the proposals put forward by Southwark Council at the end of January 2020. The consultation ran until the beginning of April. ‘Our Healthy Streets - Dulwich’ has now been abandoned.

Covid-19 - Post Lockdown Highway Schemes

The first batch of Experimental Traffic Orders in Dulwich in June 2020. Note the purported aim of “assisting social distancing and promoting cycle and pedestrian safety”.

Email from Councillor Margy Newens 10 June 2020

Note the last paragraph, and particularly “We will continue to work tirelessly to engage with our entire community in a transparent fashion, regardless of the views expressed.”

Email from Councillor Livingstone 19 June 2020

Note paragraph 3, particularly “The measures are flexible as the experimental nature of the trail allows us to make amendments and changes within the first six months. An option will of course be to return the highway arrangements to the original state if the trial is not deemed to be successful.”

Experimental Traffic Orders in Dulwich Village and East Dulwich

Dulwich Village (Calton Avenue/Court Lane) and Melbourne Grove South

East Dulwich (Melbourne Grove North/Elsie/Derwent/Tintagel etc)

Dulwich Village/Burbage/Turney/Townley

Hillsboro Road and Melbourne Grove School Streets Traffic Management Order

The effect of LTNs on boundary roads

Southwark Council’s Environment Scrutiny Commission’s Air Quality Report July 2020. Note particularly pages 29 and 30.

Calton Avenue S16 Consultation Letter

Southwark Council’s letter to residents in Calton Avenue re. proposals for a licence that would cover up to 15 events a year in the pedestrianised area of the Dulwich Village junction