Walnut Tree Walk 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 is committed to making sure our transport system is fair for everyone, and we prioritise this when making decisions. 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 

We connect with the local community through activities such as in-person events, discussions with local ward councillors, online engagement, and letter drops. Our goal is to gather as much local knowledge as possible to help shape the Healthy Neighbourhood design and ensure this input is reflected in the final plan. 

In the Walnut Tree Walk neighbourhood, we will engage with residents, businesses, schools, and community groups over October 2024 - December 2024. Their comments will be recorded and analysed. 

As part of this engagement, we will be organising several in-person activities to ask community members what is working well, where improvements could be made, and how they envision the Walnut Tree Walk neighbourhood in the future. Community members will also be 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. 

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 this Healthy Neighbourhood, some of the data we collect may include: 

• Traffic levels and speed 
• Bus journey times 
• Emergency service data 
• How parking spaces are used in key areas