Your views on the South Woodford Mobility Hub

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The South Woodford Mobility Hub is located on George Lane, in South Woodford town centre, close to South Woodford Underground station (E18 1AN). You can see the location on Google Maps here.

• The Hub includes a 'parklet' with seating areas and greenery
• There are cycle parking stands for your bike
• There is a reserved parking space for an electric car club vehicle

Please click Next, to share your views regarding the Hub.

We welcome all responses, irrespective of whether you have used the Hub or not.

These questions should be answered from your own perspective as an individual, not on behalf of a group. We are planning other activities within the EX-TRA project for local groups to participate in.

You can take a virtual tour of the Mobility Hub using Google Street View by clicking here.

You can also view a video of the Mobility Hub being used on Instagram here.

Before-and-after view

Click-and-hold the round circle with arrows in the middle of the picture below, and drag it to the left and right, to see what the same space looked like before and after the Hub was installed in September 2020.

Left image: before, August 2020

Right image: after, July 2021

If you have not used the Mobility Hub, please skip the questions below and jump forward by clicking Next.

Because the Mobility Hub combines different facilities (seating, cycle parking, electric car club access/parking spot), it can be used to change from one way of travelling to another. For example, you could cycle to the Hub and park your bike, and then drive off in a car club vehicle.

The South Woodford Mobility Hub was first installed in September 2020, then closed between February and April 2021 for the second COVID-19 lockdown, and has been operating since then.

Redbridge Council has stated that the process of implementing the Mobility Hub has been/will be:

• Following the non-statutory public consultation on the Mobility Hub in July 2020, the Council carried out an “Experimental” Traffic Management Order (TMO) consultation to make the Mobility Hub on George Lane a permanent installation, and install a car club parking bay with a dedicated on-street electric vehicle charge point.
• The “Experimental” TMO provides residents/occupiers/businesses with the opportunity to give further feedback to the Council until the Order is made permanent in 6-18 months.
• The TMO Notice was affixed to lamp columns/street furniture in the vicinity of the Mobility Hub, and copies were also sent to the affected frontages.
• The Council advertised the Notice of Making in the local newspapers on 3rd December 2020, and the “Experimental” TMO came into operation on 10th December 2020.
• We are now in the public consultation, period prior to the “Experimental” TMO being made permanent in 6-18 months.
• The Council will take into consideration all representations and comments received regarding the Mobility Hub/TMO, which will be included in the decision report when the “Experimental” Order is made permanent.

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