Reviewing the West End ProjectUPDATE: Review published: https://democracy.camden.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=3708
Across the Tottenham Court Road area we have made a wide selection of changes to make the area safer, greener, less congested and more attractive.
We already know that the changes:
boosted visits to the area (Tottenham Court Road saw 1million footfall for a week for the first time in Fitzrovia ever in the summer after our works completed in 2019) made the area more attractive to businesses and residential sales - a number of property services have highlighted the West End Project in their retail and residential brochures have increased biodiversity with more diverse planting in Whitfield Gardens and new trees on Tottenham Court RoadThe changes we have madeThe West End Project is making a range of improvements in the area, you can see some images of the changes in our picture guide and explore the impact of the project so far.
We have now completed the following changes:
Changing Tottenham Court Road to two way to traffic Restricting areas of Tottenham Court Road to buses and cycling only between 8am - 7pm Mondays to Saturdays Adding new segregated cycle lanes on Gower Street / Bloomsbury Street Changing Gower Street/Bloomsbury Street to two way to traffic between Grafton Way and Shaftesbury Avenue Rejuvenating Whitfield Gardens Creating a new plaza next to Centre Point/the Tottenham Court Road Elizabeth Line station Adding new trees across the area Adding new seating on Tottenham Court Road Widening pavement across Tottenham Court road and relaying them in beautiful new granite paving stones Laying new York stone pavement along Gower Street and Bloomsbury StreetThe following changes are still taking place:
A new pocket park at Huntley Street (currently under construction) A renewed public space on Tottenham Court Road near Windmill Street New pocket parks on Tottenham Court Road (close to completion) A new park in Alfred Place (currently under construction) A new green public space at Princes Circus (work to begin 2022) Final review publishedThank you to everyone who shared their views on the changes we have made and are continuing to make as we deliver this landmark project from Camden Council. As promised in the original decision report in 2015 we are carrying out a number of detailed surveys looking at changes in traffic, road safety and air quality as well as compliance with the restrictions, complaints, feedback from freight and passenger transport organisations and Transport for London. This Commonplace was part of that evaluation process.
All the information provided will feed into the wider review of the project. The results of this survey and the wider monitoring and data collection on this site can now be found on our website in our West End Project review documents.