Southwark Living Streets campaigns for a safe, attractive and accessible walking and wheeling environment in Southwark 🚶🏽♀️🚶🏾👩🏼🦽🌳 Also on Bluesky
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#Walking is the answer to so many of our current challenges.
Making it possible for people to walk in comfort and safety is the foundation for flourishing lives, happier communities, thriving economies and a healthy environment.
#Walkability
#LivingStreets
In an excerpt from the book’s new 10th anniversary edition, author and urban planner Jeff Speck looks at how the streets of US cities have changed.
By @JeffSpeckFAICP
bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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Another tough day of steep hills #bikeforbutterflies. Just a few whites & browns in the hedgerows: we now have to go to 'special' places (Reserves) to see butterflies. I reject that! We should see them everywhere - help @savebutterflies achieve that justgiving.com/campaign/bike…
ALT River Teifi (Afon Teifi) at Cenarth
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Save the date Sunday 6 July, 10am to 4.30pm, Burgess Park for the return of Southwark Streets for People Cycle Fest. Enjoy a family-friendly day out for free celebrating cycling in Southwark, with activities for all ages and abilities. #StreetsforPeople orlo.uk/xkFPp
ALT A young person on a bike cycling over a ramp with people cycling in background
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We’re bringing a recycling centre to your doorstep!
Drop, swap or take unwanted items to give them a new lease of life.
Denmark Hill Mobile Recycling Centre,Basingdon Way SE5
Saturday 12 July, 10am to 1pm
orlo.uk/wpUQ5
ALT Information about the Denmark Hill Mobile Recycling Centre
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Scottish Government publishes case study on how 20mph limits in Edinburgh have had positive public health outcomes.
bit.ly/4jTYnzP
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The liveable, inclusive, prosperous city isn’t a final destination, but a neverending journey that turns upkeep into opportunities for improvement.
In Delft’s Bagijnhof, scheduled sewage pipe replacement emptied the courtyard of parked cars and replaced them with an actual park.
ALT A before-and-after collage of a square in the medieval centre of Delft. The former is filled with parked cars. The latter with trees, plants, and playground equipment.
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We’ve just opened a new sports centre at Burgess Park to help you stay active close to home! The centre features, two full-size football pitches, a fully accessible outdoor basketball court and a modern pavilion with facilities for everyone.
Find out more in the comment below.
ALT Three young people on a grass football pitch
ALT Young people playing basketball in a new court
ALT Young person wearing a football shirt smiling to camera
ALT Sign saying "Burgess Park Sports Centre"
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This weekend we’ll be celebrating our High Streets on Bellenden Road, in Peckham. All ages are invited to enjoy a day filled with children's games, live music, cycling activities, food and much more. #StreetsforPeople #HighStreetsforPeople
orlo.uk/DOKay
ALT High Streets for People Bellenden Road Saturday 21 June
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Cllr Kieron Williams and a selection of Southwark Council staff met up with @willnorman, London's walking and cycling commissioner to check out some of the sites that have been transformed to improve road safety and boost green spaces.
The tour included a look at the UK’s first bookable loading bays on Walworth Road, traffic calming measures on Alberta Street and Braganza Street, as well as new pocket parks - designed to help kids play on the way to and from school.
#streetsforpeople
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Our heritage Orchard looking so beautiful this afternoon, Wildflowers galore and Nigella about to come into bloom.
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It’s time we crack down on these ghost plates making our roads unsafe.
news.sky.com/story/mp-demand…
We’re looking forward to walking and wheeling becoming safer, greener and more pleasant in #Southwark 👏🚶🏾♀️🧑🦽➡️🌲
#StreetsforPeople
Over 9,000 residents told us they want more trees and green space, more accessible pavements, less traffic, better lighting, and pedestrian crossings.
Our new #StreetsforPeople plan sets out how we will transform streets and communities.
Watch our video to find out more.
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The majority of U.K. police forces have phased out the use of the word “accident” when referring to crashes and other incidents, according new analysis forbes.com/sites/carltonreid…
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We’re celebrating becoming the 1st inner London borough to have over 100,000 trees on council land. We’ve planted over 30,000 trees since 2020 – including this Sequiadendron giganteum, at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, our 100,000th tree. 🌲 #nationaltreeweek #treeweek
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Sat 7th December 2024. Join us for Blue Bermondsey Winter Fair at @TheBlueMarket
Don't miss our popular annual festive event, everyone welcome
FREE ACTIVITIES
❄️ Family activities
❄️ Circus Workshops
❄️ Xmas Market
❄️ Carols
❄️ Greening The Blue
bluebermondsey.co.uk/winter-…
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Spread the word! It's #NationalTreeWeek and everyone is welcome to help us plant a new hedge for wildlife in Southwark Park. Join us this Saturday between 11am and 2pm. No experience necessary, tools provided. 🌳🌳🌳 Details on flyer below @lb_southwark @TheTreeCouncil
We're planting a hedge in Southwark Park for #nationaltreeweek. Come and join us on Saturday 30th November @TheTreeCouncil @lb_southwark mailchi.mp/432ca025a939/join…...
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Transport Secretary, @LouHaigh has unveiled her vision for integrated transport across England - & there's a lot to like, particularly her recognition that people need to be supported to make cleaner transport choices with safe, accessible streets.
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kind of getting into CPZs (controlled parking zones). these before and after pics from Southwark are pretty striking southwark.gov.uk/parking/par…
Government guidelines to make school runs happier, healthier and greener - GOV.UK gov.uk/government/news/gover…
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Very important line here from @LouHaigh on road safety:
"We treat road safety in a way as if it is somehow a natural accident. If the number of people being killed or seriously injured on our roads, were being killed in any other way, we'd be treating it as a pandemic."