Kilburn Proposed Liveable Neighbourhood Stakeholder and Community Engagement About Inspired by the impact that place has on behaviour and interactions within a community, Emilie has Sustrans developed her expertise in facilitating dynamic community engagement with innovative and people focused design at its core. She has eight years of experience delivering behaviour change and infrastructure projects that empower communities to influence the public services Emilie Charlesworth available to them and the streets and spaces they Collaborative Design Manager use and travel through. Sustrans has fifteen years’ experience in the successful delivery of community and stakeholder engagement on walking and cycling projects in the public realm. As a result, we have Caitlin has 12 years of research experience, developed a tried and tested model of delivery, which is flexible including a PhD in behavioural biology, and experience with a variety of analysis methods. At and bespoke, to ensure the successful delivery of schemes which Sustrans, she uses her expertise to evaluate and are supported by, and answer to the needs of, local stakeholders monitor diverse projects as well as to advance and residents. understanding of new research topics in active transport. The Sustrans Collaborative Design and Built Environment Teams Caitlin Stern are recognised leading experts in stakeholder and community Evaluation Officer engagement, communication, facilitation, feasibility, design and risk management. At the 2018 London Transport Awards, Sustrans won an ‘Excellence in Walking and Cycling’ award for the Collaborative Will is an experienced researcher, with a PhD Street Design project in Marks Gate, Barking and Dagenham and in Geography and expertise in the monitoring ‘Consultant of the Year’ for work across Quietways, which includes of active travel projects. Since joining the design and engagement. organisation in 2017 he has worked on a range of research and evaluation projects throughout London and around the wider UK, including public consultations, infrastructure projects, behaviour change interventions and monitoring of community Will Wright Senior Evaluation Officer engagement projects. 2 Kilburn Proposed Liveable Neighbourhood Contents About Sustrans 2 Contents 3 Executive summary 4 Project brief 5 Project area 6 Engagement methodology 7 Stakeholder workshops 8-9 Outline of activities 10-11 Issues and ideas identified 12-13 by the group Priorities 14 Feedback 15 Other stakeholder 16-20 responses Community engagement 21 Analysis of perception 22-28 survey Local area cycle audit 29-30 Appendix A 31 Appendix B 32 Executive Summary Transport for London’s Liveable Neighbourhoods programme link between Kilburn High Road offers London boroughs the opportunity to bid for grants of Station, Kilburn Park Station between £1m and £10m for ambitious, community-supported and Queen’s Park Station via Coventry Close and Cathedral schemes that reduce car journeys, and encourage walking, Walk, with 79.3% of respondents cycling and the use of public transport. Sustrans was in favour. 77% of respondents commissioned by Camden and Brent to engage with residents, supported an area wide scheme school communities and stakeholders across their proposed that restricts traffic accessing Kilburn Liveable Neighbourhood area, in order to identify local residential streets, and 77% of issues that could be addressed through the programme, and to respondents would like to see a ensure that measures which meet local needs are incorporated public play and seating area at into the proposals, particularly in relation to the residential areas the junction of Kilburn High Road Healthy Streets Indicators to the east and west of Kilburn High Road. and Priory Park Road. Source: Lucy Saunders Sustrans delivered two stakeholder workshops attended by 13 organisations Survey respondents were asked to select from a list the three things they thought from Brent and Camden, four on street events, two school engagement sessions should be prioritised in the neighbourhood. RMU’s analysis shows that participants’ and a cycle audit of the proposed area. Sustrans also conducted interviews with top three priorities are air quality, clean streets, and traffic reduction in residential stakeholders unable to attend the workshops including the Metropolitan Police. areas. The second stakeholder workshop, in Camden, identified local through-traffic Formal stakeholder responses were received from Brent Cyclists and Camden reduction measures and improved walking and cycling connectivity as priorities for Cycling Campaign. inclusion in the bid, including closing West End Lane to through traffic at the junction with Abbey Road, restricting through traffic on east-west routes through the area, During the first stakeholder workshop in Brent, a series of improvements for the and creating a pedestrianised street along Kingsgate Road and outside Kingsgate area were identified by the group, including traffic reduction and public realm Primary School. On-street and school engagement events at Kilburn Grange improvement measures. In order to determine whether there was local support Primary School and Christ Church CofE Primary School were well received, with for these, Sustrans’ Research and Monitoring Unit (RMU) designed a perception head teachers keen to support the scheme and remain actively involved in further survey, which was then shared at the public events on Kilburn High Road (Brent), at developing proposals. the school events, disseminated through the stakeholder group and made available online. Following the workshops, 88% of participants felt that they would like to be part of an ongoing stakeholder group if the Kilburn Liveable Neighbourhood bid is 118 members of the public responded. All suggestions had a high level of support, successful. 88% of participants agreed that the workshops had been useful. 100% with each scheme receiving between 70 and 80% of respondents agreeing or of participants felt that they understood the principles of Healthy Streets and the strongly agreeing that they would like to see these improvements implemented. The Liveable Neighbourhood Programme. most popular improvement was the suggestion to improve the walking and cycling 4 Kilburn Proposed Liveable Neighbourhood Project Brief Transport for London’s Liveable Neighbourhoods programme will give boroughs the opportunity to bid for grants of between • Engage and inform stakeholders and residents about the LN £1m and £10m for ambitious, community-supported schemes scheme, establishing a clear understanding of the scheme’s that reduce car journeys, and encourage walking, cycling and the benefits, opportunities and parameters. use of public transport. The Healthy Streets approach is central • Develop a process through which the community can input their Aims knowledge, skills and expertise in the programme. to this – aiming to improve air quality and reduce congestion by • Establish a stakeholder group that can continue to shape the transforming communities, making them greener, healthier and programme, if the bid is successful more attractive places to live and work. Sustrans has been commissioned by Camden and Brent to engage with residents, school communities and stakeholders across the proposed Kilburn Liveable Neighbourhood area, which spans both • Two stakeholder workshops and stakeholder interviews (Brent boroughs, in order to identify local issues that could be addressed and Camden) through the programme, and to ensure that a wide range of local • Two on-street engagement events and two school engagement events (Brent) views and expertise are incorporated into the proposals. This • Online public perception survey (Brent) approach will ensure that the schemes proposed within the Kilburn • A cycle audit of the proposed area (Brent and Camden) Deliverables Liveable Neighbourhood programme meet the needs of residents and school pupils across the community. Stakeholder and Community Engagement 5 Project Area Camden and Brent are working in partnership on their Kilburn Liveable Neighbourhood bid. The area extends west from Kilburn High Road to West Hampstead stations and Priory Road, and east to Brondesbury Park and Queen’s Park stations. There are fifteen schools and FE institutions within the project area, and green spaces including Kilburn Grange Park and Paddington Old Cemetery. The project area contains sections of Quietway 3 (Gladstone Park to Kilburn), and the semi-segregated cycle link on Carlton Vale. Key 1 North West London Jewish Day School 6 Islamia Primary School 10 & 11 Al-sadiq & Al-zahra Schools 2 Malorees Infants and Juniors Schools 7 Salusbury Primary School 12 St Mary CofE Primary School 3 The Avenue Primary School 8 Kilburn Grange School 13 St Eugene de Mazenod 4 Christ Church CoE Primary School 9 The Institute of 14 Kingsgate Primary Junior School Contemporary Music 5 Islamia Girls’ Secondary School Performance 15 Kingsgate Primary Infants School 6 Kilburn Proposed Liveable Neighbourhood Engagement Methodology Sustrans facilitated two stakeholder workshops in Brent and Camden. These were designed to make stakeholders feel engaged and informed about the Liveable Neighbourhood, and gave the opportunity to share local knowledge and expertise, within the context of the Healthy Streets approach and the ambitions of the Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS). The insight generated from the stakeholder workshop in Brent informed the perception survey questions developed by Sustrans’ Research and Monitoring