Loughborough Junction The Public Realm

​Loughborough Junction's High Street, along Coldharbour Lane, consists of some 40 businesses, mainly small independent shops and some larger chain outlets, franchises and also a busy train station and some limited public realm space. 

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​​Sadly, many of the more vulnerable members of our community, (the elderly, infirmed, disabled and even parents with children in prams or people with heavy bags or luggage), find that our High Street is a hostile environment, with the inadequate kerbspace and a public realm filled with unwanted and abandoned street furniture, unmaintained and dangerous paving, poorly positioned planters, posts, bollards, advertising displays, dumped hire bikes and refuse bins that block sight and desire lines and restrict movement.

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Whilst the Lift Up LJ ​campaign recognises that any infrastructure and improvement works to the railway station will be subject to a  process that will commence with a feasibility study. However, it is Lambeth Council's responsibility  to ensure that streets, parks, pavements and squares remain open, welcoming, and safe for all users, promoting inclusivity and allowing free movement. For a town so close to Brixton and Lambeth's seat of local power, in a borough where many major projects and developments sit alongside historical and famous landmarks, parks and neighbourhoods, Loughborough Junction feels abandoned and unwanted - as if the ambitions and statements made within Lambeth's Kerbside Strategy do not apply here.

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The Kerbside Strategy is managed by David Wilson of Lambeth Council and within the policy minimum commitments for every street in Lambeth is set out across 4 priorities:

1. Enable accessible and active travel

2. Create Places for People

3. Increase climate resilience

4. Reduce emissions and traffic

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