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Shortlands, Ravensbourne and Bromley Better Villages (SRBBV) Proposed Liveable Neighbourhood Stakeholder and Community Engagement Shortlands, Ravensbourne and Bromley Better Villages (SRBBV) proposed Liveable Neighbourhood Stakeholder and Community Engagement Stakeholder and Community Engagement 1 About Sustrans 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 developed a tried and tested model of delivery, which is flexible and bespoke, to ensure the successful delivery of schemes which are supported by, and answer to the needs of, local stakeholders and residents. The Sustrans Collaborative Design and Built Environment Teams are recognised leading experts in stakeholder and community 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 Street Design project in Marks Gate, Barking and Dagenham and ‘Consultant of the Year’ for work across Quietways, which includes design and engagement. Inspired by the impact that place has on behaviour and interactions within a community, Annie has developed her expertise in facilitating dynamic community Caitlin has 12 years of research experience, including engagement with innovative and people focused a PhD in behavioural biology, and experience with a design at its core. She has a wide range of experience variety of analysis methods. At Sustrans, she uses her delivering behaviour change and infrastructure projects expertise to evaluate and monitor diverse projects as that empower communities to influence the public well as to advance understanding of new research topics in active transport. Annie Miller services available to them and the streets and spaces Collaborative Design they use and travel through. Caitlin Stern Project Manager Evaluation Officer Karl has five years of transport planning experience, primarily focussed on sustainable travel, from long- term transport strategies to detailed design. He has Will is an experienced researcher, with a PhD in experience in managing small and medium-sized Geography and expertise in the monitoring of active travel projects, managing stakeholders and engaging projects. Since joining the organisation in 2017 he has local communities. He has worked on a number of worked on a range of research and evaluation projects high-profile cycling projects in London, from Cycle throughout London and around the wider UK, including Superhighway 9 to delivery of some of the TfL funded public consultations, infrastructure projects, behaviour Quietway routes. Through his experience in the public, change interventions and monitoring of community Karl Brierley private and research sectors, Karl has gained a broad Will Wright engagement projects. Route Manager skillset including project management, budgeting and Senior Evaluation Officer communications. 2 SRBBV Proposed Liveable Neighbourhood Contents About Sustrans 2 Contents 3 Executive summary 4 Project brief 5 Project area 6 Understanding the issues 7 Engagement methodology 8 Councillor Walkabout 9 Stakeholder Workshop 12 • Organisations represented • Outline of activities • Issues and solutions identified by stakeholders • Priorities Identified by Stakeholders • Feedback Community engagement 22 Public engagement at Shortlands 23 Station Public engagement outside 26 Shortlands Parade of Shops Schools engagement 29 Analysis of perception survey 35 Appendix A 48 Appendix B 60 Stakeholder and Community Engagement 3 Executive Summary Transport for London’s Liveable Neighbourhoods programme outside the Shortlands Village offers London boroughs the opportunity to bid for grants of Parade of Shops, at the school events, disseminated through the between £1m and £10m for ambitious, community-supported stakeholder group and schemes that reduce car journeys, and encourage walking, made available online. cycling and the use of public transport. Sustrans was commissioned by the London Borough of Bromley to engage with 358 people responded to the residents, school communities and stakeholders across their perception survey. Participants were proposed Shortlands, Ravensbourne and Bromley Better Villages asked to select what they thought should be prioritised across the (SRBBV) Liveable Neighbourhood area, in order to identify local neighbourhood and analysis shows issues that could be addressed through the programme, and to that more pedestrian crossing points ensure that measures which meet local needs are incorporated and traffic reduction in residential into the proposals. areas are the top priorities. Healthy Streets Indicators Responses to potential interventions Source: Lucy Saunders Sustrans delivered a Councillor Walkabout of the proposed project area attended by six around Shortlands Station show that councillors, a stakeholder workshop attended by 12 organisations, three on street events 93.2% agree or strongly agree that improved pedestrian crossing points are a priority outside and two school engagement sessions. During the Councillor Walkabout a series of key the station and 88.1% of participants agree or strongly agree that improved crossing points issues and locations for improvement were identified by Councillors. These included access are also needed around the Shortlands Village parade of shops. to Shortlands Station, improvements to Shortlands Village Parade of Shops, pedestrian and cyclist access to local schools, improvements to the area around the War Memorial and There is also support for making it easier to walk and cycle to access public transport with discussed issues of railheading, speeding and traffic across the area. During the stakeholder 84.8% agreeing or strongly agreeing. Another popular proposed intervention is to make it workshop issues and potential solutions were explored further, key priorities were identified easier and safer for parents and children to walk, scoot and cycle to and from school with which again included the junction outside Shortlands Station, Shortlands Village Parade of 90% of participants agreeing or strongly agreeing with this intervention. Shops, access to schools, railheading, rat running but also pedestrian and cyclist access to Bromley South. At the on-street public engagement events at Shortlands Station and outside Shortlands Village Parade of Shops the survey was publicised to and completed by members of Following the workshop, 84% of participants felt that they would like to be part of an the public and shop owners. Information boards and photos of places identified by the ongoing stakeholder group if the SRBBV Liveable Neighbourhood bid is successful. 100% stakeholder workshop members and councillors were also used to capture the views of the of participants agreed that the workshops had been useful and 100% of participants felt local community, many of which supported the issues identified in the stakeholder workshop. that they understood the principles of Healthy Streets and the Liveable Neighbourhoods Programme. At the school engagement events at Valley Primary School and St. Mark’s CofE Primary School parents and pupils contributed and discussed their experiences and views. At both In order to determine whether there was local support for the priorities identified by schools there was a strong emphasis on the difficult pedestrian and cyclist access to the Councillors and stakeholders, Sustrans’ Research and Monitoring Unit (RMU) designed a schools and dangerous parking and traffic outside the schools at drop off and collection perception survey, which was then shared at the public events at Shortlands Station and times. The events were well received, with head teachers keen to support the scheme and 4 SRBBV Proposed Liveable Neighbourhood Project Brief Transport for London’s Liveable Neighbourhoods programme • Engage and inform stakeholders and residents about will give boroughs the opportunity to bid for grants of between the LN scheme, establishing a clear understanding of £1m and £10m for ambitious, community-supported schemes the scheme’s benefits, opportunities and parameters that reduce car journeys, and encourage walking, cycling and the • Develop a process through which the community use of public transport. The Healthy Streets approach is central can input their knowledge, skills and expertise in the Aims to this – aiming to improve air quality and reduce congestion by programme transforming communities, making them greener, healthier and • Establish a stakeholder group that can continue to more attractive places to live and work. shape the programme, if the bid is successful Sustrans has been commissioned by the London Borough of Bromley to engage with residents, school communities and stakeholders across the proposed Shortlands, Ravensbourne and Bromley Better • One councillor walkabout of the project area Villages (SRBBV) Liveable Neighbourhood area in order to identify • One stakeholder workshop local issues that could be addressed through the programme, and to • Three on-street engagement events ensure that a wide range of local views and expertise are incorporated • Two school engagement events • Online public perception survey into the proposals. This approach will ensure that the schemes Deliverables proposed within the SRBBV Liveable Neighbourhood programme area meet the needs of residents and school pupils across the community. Stakeholder and Community Engagement 5 Peds AM:AM: 65 342 PM: 144PM: 348 AM: 82 PM: 126 AM: 148 PM: 26 AM: 90 PM: 67 Peds Peds AM: 24 AM: 6 PM: 54 PM: 48 AM:
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