Woodberry Grove LTN

We are committed in our Transport Strategy to make Hackney’s roads safer for everyone living, working and visiting the borough. We aim to create an environment that will encourage more walking and cycling, improve air quality and reduce emissions in the borough. For further background to these measures, see the About the project page. To find out more about how we're maintaining access to properties, why we're acting so quickly and more, visit our Frequently Asked Questions page.

In Woodberry Grove, we are introducing the following measures:

A traffic filter is a type of road closure that uses planters or bollards on the road to prevent motor vehicles from passing through. They are also called Low Traffic Neighbourhood Traffic Filters or LTNs.

During peak times, levels of non-local through traffic are too high on Woodberry Grove because vehicles use Woodberry Grove as a shortcut to bypass the traffic signals at the junction of Green Lanes with Seven Sisters Road.

From Monday 21 June 2021, a traffic filter will be located at the junction of Woodberry Grove and Seven Sisters Road (see map below). General motor vehicle traffic will not be permitted to pass through the traffic filter, from either direction, at any time of the day. Cyclists, emergency vehicles and some service vehicles such as waste collection will be exempt from this 24 hour restriction. Access will be maintained to all properties on Woodberry Grove, but vehicles would need to approach from,and exit onto, Green Lanes.

The traffic filter, and subsequent banned left and right turns from Seven Sisters Road onto Woodberry Grove, will be indicated with signage and road markings (see map below). The traffic filter will be installed using solid planters on either side of the road to reduce the carriageway width, but allowing enough space for cyclists, emergency vehicles and refuse vehicles to pass through. Signs and road markings will make it clear that all other vehicles cannot pass through and infractions can carry a penalty charge issued by an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera.

School Streets are schemes where the road(s) outside of a school is closed to most vehicles during school opening and closing times, helping children and parents walk and cycle to school safely, and improving air quality at the school gates.

From Monday 21 June 2021, Woodberry Grove, from its junction with Rowley Gardens to the traffic filter at the junction with Seven Sisters Road (including Katherine Close) will become a School Street zone (SS26). Vehicles will not be able to enter Woodberry Grove from Seven Sisters Road at any time due to the traffic filter. Due to the School Street, vehicles approaching from the direction of Rowley Gardens will not be able to enter the School Street zone between 8.30-9.30am and 3-4pm, Monday to Friday, unless they have been granted an exemption from this School Street zone. The School Street zone will not operate on weekends or during school holidays.

Vehicles registered to residential and business addresses inside the School Street SS26 zone (Woodberry Grove, between Rowley Gardens and Seven Sisters Road) will be eligible for an exemption from the School Street restriction and will therefore be able to access their properties at all times. Please note: resident and business vehicles that are exempt from the School Street SS26 zone (permit holders SS26) will not be able to drive through the traffic filter at the junction of Woodberry Grove and Seven Sisters Road at any time. Therefore their route to their properties will be via Green Lanes.

Pedestrian and Cycle Zone signs will be erected at the entrance points to the zone, informing drivers of the restrictions. Public notices advising about the new restrictions will be displayed in the streets prior to implementation.

To have your say on the Woodberry Down Community Primary School and Skinners’ Academy School Street, please provide your feedback here .

These schemes were being introduced using experimental traffic orders for a maximum period of 18 months, which means you can see how they work in practice before having your say.

To have your say on the Woodberry Down Community Primary School and Skinners’ Academy School Street , please provide your feedback here .

The views of residents and businesses, including any suggested changes to how the scheme operates, will be taken into account before any decision on whether or not to make the measures permanent. This process is in line with specific guidance from Transport for London, and the Department for Transport, whose guidance states that: 'authorities should monitor and evaluate any temporary measures they install, with a view to making them permanent, and embedding a long-term shift to active travel as we move from restart to recovery’.

You can have your say for up to six months after the measures have been implemented, until Tuesday 21 December 2021.

To have your say, please complete the survey below or email streetscene.consultations@hackney.gov.uk. You can also write to us by sending your comments to ‘Freepost Streetscene’.