Decision details

This report seeks approval from the Director of Environment and Sustainability, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for a Sustainable Camden, to make permanent the current trial area-wide 7.5-tonne weight restriction scheme introduced in January 2023 in the King Henry’s Road area. The scheme prohibits vehicles weighing 7.5 tonnes or more from using the network of residential streets between Avenue Road, Adelaide Road and Primrose Hill Road as a cut-through, ‘except for access’. The scheme was implemented as an 18-month trial under an Experimental Traffic Order (ETO) which came into force on 19 January 2023.

The report also seeks approval for several new permanent pedestrian, road safety, public realm and environmental improvements in the area.

The recommendations in this report are made considering relevant policies, feedback and monitoring data collected during the trial period, a full public consultation on the proposals contained in this report and an updated Equality Impact Assessment.

THAT the Director of Environment and Sustainability, having considered the proposals in relation to the objectives set out in the Camden Transport Strategy, the Consultation Summary Report (Appendix B), the Equality Impact Assessment (Appendix C), the Strategic Policy Alignments (Appendix F) and having due regard to the needs set out in Section 149 of the Equality Act 2010:

(i)       approves the proposal to make the current, trial area-wide 7.5-tonne weight restriction scheme permanent;

(ii)      approves the implementation of the proposed new, permanent pedestrian, road safety, public realm and environmental improvements in the area, as set out in Section 2; and

(iii)      delegates to the Chief Engineer the authority to take decisions relating to the detailed design and implementation/construction elements of the above schemes, subject to compliance with relevant statutory requirements.