+ Can we expect more road closures?
From what we can gather, more road closures (using Experimental Traffic Orders, and citing Covid-19) can be expected this summer.
We have heard that Phase 2 is likely to involve one or more closures on Turney Road or Burbage Road, and that the measures will be cheap as possible – so expect more planters.
We also understand that there is money for a School Street outside Alleyn’s.
How much funding is there, and where does it come from?
We’re a bit confused about the funding, but this is what we’ve found out so far.
The Council’s June 2020 report on the Covid-19 Post lockdown highway schemes says that both the Dulwich Village and Melbourne Grove South closures were funded by ‘Dulwich Healthy Streets’, and came to a total of £45,000.
More information about funding came from a small piece that appeared in the South London Press on 25 June, saying that Dulwich Village is a low traffic neighbourhood or LTN (news to many of us) and has been granted money from TfL’s Streetspace funding pot. This was broken down as £23,000 for the first phase, and £110,000 for the second.
We don’t know how these figures tie up with the £45,000 mentioned in the June 2020 report.
We asked the South London Press if they had any more details, and they sent us a spreadsheet of all the London Streetspace funding to 18 June 2020 . This includes the figures of £23,000 and £110,000 for Dulwich Village, plus £3,450 for a School Street for Alleyn’s, and Low Traffic Neighbourhood funds of £5,000 for Melbourne Grove North, and £5,000 for Melbourne Grove South.
In the meantime, perhaps the more pressing question is: how exactly is this money going to be spent in Phase 2? As soon as we find out, we’ll let you know.