As you will see from the agenda, the meeting will take place at Streatham Youth & Community Trust (SYCT) on Wellfield Road. Confirmed details are as follows:
Date: Thursday 11th May
Time: 18:15 - 20:45 hrs
Location: first floor classroom, SYCT, 16 Wellfield Road, SW16 2BP
The main business of the meeting will be to discuss not only the state of Streatham’s current rail infrastructure with our panellists, but also to discuss as to how we should most effectively lobby for improved rail transport services. This part of the meeting will take place between 18:30 and 19:45 hrs with the following panellists :
· Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Streatham’s MP
· Jonny Nesbitt - Network Rail representative for the South London area
· Stephen Norris - GTR regional manager for the South London area
· Katerina Makolova - GTR station manager for the 3 Streatham stations.
· Representative from Lambeth Council, tbc
Please come to the meeting with your particular questions and/or comments. Let us hope for a productive discussion, so as to reach a point of consensus as to how best for Streatham’s MP, Lambeth Council and Streatham Action to lobby in a concerted way for seeking improvements with regard to Streatham’s rail transport infrastructure.
We shall also have time, during the final hour of the meeting, to discuss in more detail where things currently stand with regard to the Streatham Wells LTN design stage consultation report and likely next steps.
We shall also discuss Lambeth’s intention, over time, to create one community parklet in each of the 25 wards across the borough. There is a consultation currently open until Sunday 28th May at 5pm for local residents proactively to submit recommendations as to where in their ward they would like to see a community parklet created. It would be good to discuss as to where we perceive the most appropriate roads in each of the 5 central Streatham wards for such parklets to be created. Whilst we all know that most of our roads have huge demand for car, van and motorbike parking, are there any roads that we can think of where parking is currently less intense, so that we can then proactively make recommendations with the least possible inconvenience to those who own vehicles in their roads?
I hope that as many of us as possible will be able to attend this important meeting. See you then.
Kind regards,
Neil
Next SAT group meeting to take place on Tuesday 10th January 2023 - Online Meeting
Although Lambeth Council’s transport team turned down the opportunity to attend our Streatham Action public meeting on 7th December, I am pleased to say nonetheless that Luuk van Kessel, the LBL Transport Planner with responsibility for the Streatham Wells LTN, has agreed to attend our next Streatham Action Transport group meeting, which will now take place online on Tuesday 10th January.
I am also pleased to say that any points that may be raised during, or immediately after, that online SAT group meeting will also be incorporated within the design stage consultation responses. Please make a note in your diaries for this on-line meeting which will probably run between 7 and 9pm.
Neil Salt - Chair Transport Group
This meeting will be online. If you need a link contact vicechair@streathamaction.org.uk
Date: Tuesday 14th June
Time: 18.00 - 20.00hrs
Venue: Meeting Room 2, Streatham Tate Library, 63, Streatham High Road, SW16 1PN
Dear All,
It has been nearly three months since we had a Streatham Action Transport group meeting - the last one was held on 15th March. As you know, we were restricted in receiving any information from either Lambeth Council or TfL during the period from very soon after that meeting through to the date of the local elections on 5th May.
Whilst TfL will not be able to provide us with an update on the A23 reconfiguration scheme until after 24th June, at which point the Government and TfL will hopefully reach a settlement for the next 3 years to include capital funding, we shall only have new information from them to talk through with us at some point in July. I have suggested Tuesday 19th July for that meeting, to which date they have provisionally agreed. On the basis that various members of TfL continue to work remotely on some days, the request from them is to attend our July meeting remotely. I shall,therefore, arrange for that meeting to be held on Zoom for all of us.
In the meantime, I am keen that we should have a meeting in June to discuss the latest update from Southern Rail to include both further information on the accessibility works at Streatham station and also the implications of the timetable changes as from the end of last month.
Our next meeting will, therefore, take place in person next Tuesday, 14th June. In order to accommodate the closing time of Streatham Library, I have brought forward the timings for that particular meeting to 6-8pm, rather than 7-9pm as would normally be the case.
Details are as follows:
Date: Tuesday 14th June
Time: 18.00 - 20.00hrs
Venue: Meeting Room 2, Streatham Tate Library, 63, Streatham High Road, SW16 1PN
I am pleased to say that Steve Fleming's replacement as the station manager for our 3 Streatham stations, Katerina Makolova, will be attending this meeting to update us on various aspects and to answer our questions. Fyi, Steve moved on within Southern Rail a few weeks ago to a new role as one of the station managers at Victoria. On behalf of all of us at SAT group, I have sent him a congratulatory email.
Please find attached a copy of the draft minutes from our prior 15th March meeting. I shall email a copy of the agenda for next Tuesday’s meeting to all of us at the end of this week.
I hope that as many of us as possible will be able to attend what will be our first in-person SAT group meeting for nearly 2.5 years! It will be good to get back to in-person meetings again. Hopefully see you both at next Tuesday’s meeting and at our subsequent meeting, to be held via Zoom, on Tuesday 19th July.
Kind regards,
Neil
Neil Salt
Chair, Streatham Action Transport Group
Meeting - 7th December 2021
I write to confirm that our next Streatham Action Transport Group meeting will take place on Zoom this coming Tuesday, 7th December, between 7 and 9pm.
1. As you may recall from our prior meeting held on 16th November, we were unable to receive a presentation at that meeting from TfL in relation to seeing concept design plans for the reconfigured A23 scheme between Streatham Hill station and the South Circular. I am pleased to say that Kieran Hutley of TfL will be able to talk us through these concept designs on our Zoom call on Tuesday evening.
2. We shall also receive an update from Claire Alleguen of TfL on a proposed repositioning of a pedestrian crossing further down Streatham High Road.
3. You may also recall that I had requested just prior to our November meeting that TfL provide us with some traffic level monitoring data on two comparative dates in September 2019 and September 2021. Jenny Melbourne of TfL, who attended our 28th September meeting and who is TfL’s Network Performance and Planning Manager, should hopefully be in attendance at our meeting on Tuesday to talk us through what that data may have shown up.
TfL have requested to attend the first 45 minutes to one hour of our meeting, so they will join us at 7:05pm and with a hard stop on TfL issues by 7.50pm.
4. With regard to the latest updates on the Streatham Hill LTN consultation process and Streatham Wells LTN engagement process, Cllr Dr Mahamed Hashi, Lambeth Council’s Cabinet Member for Sustainable Transport, Environment and Clean Air will hopefully be able to be with us between 7.50 and 8.20pm.
On Monday evening, I shall send you a further email with the Zoom link for the meeting, alongside the agenda.
It would be good to have a large attendance once again on Tuesday evening as we receive this long-awaited news on the latest plans for the A23 reconfiguration work.
Kind regards,
Neil
Neil Salt
Chair, Streatham Action Transport Group
IF YOU NEED A ZOOM LINK, CONTACT NEIL at vicechair@streathamaction.org.uk or chair@streathamaction.org.uk
Thanks to the very many who attended our last Streatham Action Transport group meeting on Tuesday 16 November.
On account of the fact that TfL representatives were unable to attend that meeting - sign-off by then not yet having been secured for concept design stages on the A23 reconfiguration scheme - we had tentatively scheduled for a follow-up meeting to take place before Christmas on this Wednesday, 1 December.
On the basis that TfL’s Kieran Hutley will unfortunately not now be available on Wednesday evening - he is the best person to talk us through the concept design - and that the additional data that we have requested from TfL will not now also be available until later this week, it makes best sense all round for us to reschedule the meeting:
Our next SAT group meeting will now take place as follows:
Tuesday 7 December on Zoom between 7 and 9pm.
I apologize for any inconvenience that this change of date may cause.
I shall email a copy of the agenda and the draft minutes of the prior 2 meetings to all of us over the next 7 days.
Kind regards,
Neil Salt
Chair, Streatham Action Transport Group
IF YOU NEED A ZOOM LINK, CONTACT NEIL at vicechair@streathamaction.org.uk or chair@streathamaction.org.uk
Agenda Minutes of last meeting
Dear All,
Further to my email of earlier in the week, following on from Lambeth Council’s release of its 118-page summary engagement report on the Streatham Wells LTN design stage consultation, I mentioned that I would put in a request to Lambeth Council’s transport planner for this LTN, Luuk van Kessel, to request that he attend an online Streatham Action Transport group meeting at some point soon.
I am pleased to say that Luuk has responded and we have agreed an upcoming meeting date, with details as follows:
Date: Tuesday 6th June
Time : 18:45 - 20:45hrs (with Luuk attending between 19:00 and 20:15hrs)
Venue: via Zoom
Luuk will present a brief slide deck at the start of the meeting, which will be drawn from key information that was included within the recent summary engagement report.
In case you may not yet have had the chance to read the summary engagement report, a link to it, and a summary of the key points raised within it, is accessible on the Streatham Action website:
Agenda, Minutes of last meeting and Network Rail Presentation:
“If you have not yet received the Zoom log-in details for this upcoming meeting and would like to join the meeting, then please send me an email to that effect to vicechair@streathamaction.org.uk, confirming the road where you live, and we shall then email the Zoom details to you. This will all be done on the strict understanding that the Zoom details will not then be shared with anyone further.”
Kind regards,
Neil
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