We provided input into the transport aspects of masterplanning Design Codes for the area of Sandgate Street, Verney Road and Old Kent Road within the Old Kent Road masterplan for the London Borough of Southwark.

Design codes develop the masterplan in a greater level of detail, setting out the design principles to be followed by developers to gain planning consent.

This involved working with Farrells masterplanners to review the streets and places hierarchy for the area in terms of transport and movement, mapping servicing access and routes, providing multi-modal access maps for walking, cycling, public transport, logistics and vehicular access and advising on designs for typical street sections and walking and cycling routes through green spaces.

Our work helped to plan better connections for pedestrians and cyclists to a proposed linear park along the alignment of Verney Road and improve north-south connections between Verney Road and Old Kent Road. These proposed improvements will help to revitalise Old Kent Road as a high street and allow for intensification of the development, providing homes, workplaces, shops and leisure uses.

We carried out a traffic and urban realm study to improve pedestrian accessibility and connectivity between Elephant Park and Victory Community Park in Southwark.

We undertook traffic counts and mapped traffic displacement to assess several options for the link between the parks including one-ways, improving pedestrian priority with a raised crossing point and a road closure. Options were assessed against their impacts on safety, different road users including pedestrians, cyclists, motor vehicles, buses and access to neighbouring developments. We ranked the options in terms of which would best provide a safe and attractive pedestrian link between the parks and support the aims of LB Southwark’s Movement Plan to reduce traffic and improve people’s experience of the street whilst having limited impact on local surrounding roads.