Stockwell Gardens Healthy Neighbourhood Timeline

Before designing a Healthy Neighbourhood, we first learn about the neighbourhood and its community. We speak with residents, businesses, community groups, and protected groups to understand their lived, local experiences. We collect data to assess current street and environmental conditions, and we consider the project's impact on equality. 

Evaluating effects on equality 

Lambeth Council is committed to becoming a borough of equity and justice, with a transport system that is fair for everyone. 

For each of our Healthy Neighbourhood projects, we think about how it will impact different groups of people, so we can advance equality and remove barriers for protected groups. This process is called an Equalities Impact Assessment. It’s a legal requirement and an important part of how Lambeth makes decisions. What we learn from this report helps shape our engagement and design choices.  

As we gather more information throughout the project, we may update our Equalities Impact Assessment to incorporate these insights.  

How we engage 

As part of our engagement, we go out and speak to the local community to make sure their views are represented. We hold in-person events, hold discussions with local ward councillors, carry out online engagement and letter drops so the public can stay informed, and their feedback taken on board. 

In the Stockwell Gardens neighbourhood, we engaged with residents, businesses, schools, and community groups over October 2023 - March 2024. Their comments were recorded and are being analysed. 

As part of this engagement, we organized several in-person activities to ask community members what is working well, where improvements could be made, and how they envision the Stockwell Gardens neighbourhood in the future. Community members were also invited, using our online map, to share their thoughts on issues related to local streets, how they get round, environmental concerns related to their streets, and neighbourhood spaces. 

We identified further opportunity for engagement and have extended our engagement to September 2024. 

Collecting pre-trial data 

Before we introduce a Healthy Neighbourhood, we will collect pre-trial data. This helps us design the trial more effectively and provides a baseline for comparison once the trial is implemented. With this data, we can make informed decisions about the trial's future, including whether to continue, make changes, or remove it. 

The kind of data we collect will depend on the objectives of the Healthy Neighbourhood. For the Stockwell Gardens Healthy neighbourhood, some of the data we collect may include: 

• Traffic levels and speed 
• Bus journey times on boundary roads
• Emergency service data 
• Through traffic data