Denne Terrace and Dunston Road - Proposed public realm improvements

Overview

Overview

In our Transport Strategy, we have committed to making Hackney’s roads safer for everyone living in, working in and visiting the borough. We aim to create an environment that will promote and encourage more walking and cycling as these are clean, healthy and efficient ways to travel, to help improve air quality and reduce emissions within the local area.

Following the installation of a toucan crossing (signal controlled pedestrian and cycle crossing) near the canal bridge at Queensbridge Road, measures to tie in the toucan crossing with the rest of Denne Terrace are being proposed.

In 2020, we installed experimental traffic filters as part of the London Fields low traffic neighbourhood including the traffic filter at Stean Street near the Dunston Road junction. These traffic filters were made permanent in February 2022 paving the way for more permanent measures to improve the public realm. This is in line with our aim to create a greener, healthier Hackney, improve road safety and support people to walk and cycle locally.

What is the proposed scheme?

Denne Terrace

As part of the improvements we propose to:

• Make the last 42 metres of Denne Terrace towards Queensbridge Road traffic free by installing a restriction for motorised traffic near the footpath to Clemson House.
• Install wider pavements with trees and possible seating facilities. This would help more people to take up walking in more attractive spaces next to the canal.
• Raise the road level to just below the pavement level to highlight further the absence of motorised traffic.
• Extend the existing cycle hire facilities from about five metres to 20 metres to occupy the space between the trees and accommodate more pedal cycles.

The extended cycle hire facilities will result in the loss of five parking spaces.

Examples of rain gardens

Dunston Road

The existing traffic filter at Stean Street is composed of temporary planters and fixed bollards.

As part of the improvements we propose to:

• Replace the two temporary planters with rain gardens (a type of Sustainable Drainage System or SuDS with new trees and low level planting) to enhance the public realm and help improve the air quality.
• Install kerb build-outs to reduce the road width and extend the raised junction table using distinctive paving material to help highlight further the presence of the bus gate.
• Replace the fixed bollards with a traffic enforcement camera to improve accessibility for emergency service vehicles in the area.
• Implement other public realm improvements such as cycle parking / storage facilities subject to funding.

What happens next?

Your views will be taken into account as part of the detailed design process. We will publish the consultation results as well as the decisions made at consultation.hackney.gov.uk

Subject to the consultation outcome, the Council would be required to carry out its legal statutory consultation, at which point you would be entitled to make further comments and representations.

If the scheme goes ahead, following consultation, we expect construction works to start in December 2024 with completion in about eight weeks. Further information regarding the works would be sent out closer to the time.

Information

For further information on these proposals, please contact the Hackney Service Centre by calling 020 8356 2897 or by emailing streetscene.consultations@hackney.gov.uk

If you need any information on this consultation in a different format
please email consultation@hackney.gov.uk. We’ll consider your request and get back to you in five working days.