Greenwich Council is set to review up to 1,000 'Healthy Sustainable Streets' in the borough, aiming to improve parking, add greenery, and promote sustainable transport.

The initiative, discussed at the Transport and Place Scrutiny Panel meeting on Thursday, aims to introduce parking controls to address poor parking, alongside measures such as trees, cycle parking, EV bays and Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems.

The review is part of a larger Transport Work Programme for 2025/26, which also includes:

  • Traffic Management Order Consultation and decision relating to the Greenwich to Woolwich Ferry Cycleway
  • Consult and complete detailed design Eltham to Greenwich Cycleway
  • Consult and complete detailed design Shooters Hill to Greenwich Cycleway
  • Consult and make decision Greenwich Town Centre Interim Cycle Network Scheme
  • Consult and start detailed design Woolwich to Thamesmead Cycleway
  • Consult and complete detailed design Cycleway 18
  • Finalise modelling and undertake consultation and design for North to East Greenwich Cycle route
  • Consider making permanent 11 x existing School Streets with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)
  • To complete public consultation on up to 21 additional School Streets with ANPR and subject to consideration of the consultation feedback, aim to deliver some by end of 2025/26.
  • Deliver road safety schemes at Plumstead High Street (between Wickham Lane and Walmer Terrace) and Western Way Roundabout
  • Developing a borough wide 20mph proposal
  • Complete feasibility design on Superloop Bus Priority Measures, Eltham High Street Bus Priority Measures, Green Lane Bus Priority Measures, Avery Hill Road/Southwood Road Bus Priority Measures, Shooters Hill Bus Priority Measures, Eynsham Drive Bus Priority Measures, Battery Road Bus Priority Measures
  • Committed to deliver up to 39 cycle hangars over the Summer and look to deliver an additional 20 cycle hangars by end of March 2026
  • To consider to deliver 80 bays for Lime bikes
  • Deliver Plumstead Public Realm Project to provide improvements around Plumstead Station
  • Publicly consult on Greenwich Liveable Neighbourhood Scheme
  • Deliver a decision on West and East Greenwich Traffic Management Scheme
  • Deliver the update of Council's Highways Asset Management
  • Deliver the update of Council's Flood Risk Management Strategy
  • Deliver Sustainable Urban Drainage Opportunity Mapping
  • Complete detailed design and consider to deliver £1m scheme to develop a Natural Flood Management scheme at Oxleas Woods, Clothworkers and Bostal Woods
  • Deliver Bus Strategy and Action Plan with TfL
  • Support the progress of the DLR extension to Thamesmead and Bus Rapid Transit Project- Woolwich to Thamesmead.
  • Deliver structural improvements to A206 Pettman Crescent Bridge
  • Awarding contracts with Electric Vehicle (EV) providers to provide 1,150 lamp post chargers under Low Emission Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) funding and up to 1,000 charge points