Our vision
We’re calling for safe, healthy, people-friendly streets in Enfield
- Safe streets – with safe space to walk, cycle and cross on busy roads and quiet, low-traffic streets in neighbourhoods
- Healthy streets – where active travel is the natural choice for short journeys and air is clean enough for children to breathe
- People-friendly streets – with lots of plants and seating, and where motor traffic doesn’t dominate – especially on high streets
Our asks
News
Taking to the streets in 2020
Hal Haines with a foreword by Viola Rondeboom Last Monday we returned from a long summer escape in Utrecht to find our peaceful North London neighbourhood suddenly up in arms. Groups of upset neighbours had taken to the streets to protest, and this went on for a few days in a row. What caused the…
Please support the plan for Bowes – even if you don’t love it
There has been a LOT of discussion in our Facebook group about the council’s low traffic neighbourhood plans for the West Bowes / Bounds Green area, announced on Monday. Better Streets for Enfield has been campaigning for a low traffic neighbourhood in Bowes for the last three years to address the intolerable levels of traffic…
New plans for Fox Lane quieter neighbourhood revealed
This piece by Basil Clarke first appeared on the Palmers Green Community website on 9th July. [Original article] Enfield Council’s revised plans for the Fox Lane quieter neighbourhood, which were published today, will dramatically reduce traffic and associated pollution, noise and road danger over a large area of residential streets stretching from Palmers Green to…
No going back: our call for pop-up bike lanes (and more) to keep traffic low after lockdown
In collaboration with Enfield Cycling Campaign, we wrote the following open letter to Enfield Council. *Update: please find Cllr Barnes’ reply below our letter* Dear Cllr Caliskan and Cllr Barnes, We are writing to urge you, as leaders of Enfield Council, to make simple, temporary changes to our streets to prevent the predicted boom in…
YES to low traffic in the Fox Lane area
More than 75 Fox Lane area residents got together to show their support for low traffic neighbourhood plans last Sunday. Aged from only a few months to over 70 years, they met at the Amberley Road play street and unveiled a “YES TO LOW TRAFFIC” banner. The event was organised by the Fox Lane LTN…
School streets come to Enfield!
Last week Enfield joined the growing list of London boroughs with ‘school streets’, launching two on the same day. School streets are closed to motor traffic during school run hours, making the street many times safer for families arriving on foot, bikes or scooters (only certain drivers such as residents are exempt). The two schools…