PEOPLE are being asked what they think about potential plans for the city’s first low traffic neighbourhood.
A four-week virtual workshop is being held until Sunday, April 17 as part of the ongoing work to deliver Brighton and Hove’s first liveable neighbourhood, or low traffic neighbourhood (LTN), in Hanover and Tarner.
The project will create a neighbourhood “planned and designed to reduce motor traffic cutting through residential streets”, also known as rat-running.
Brighton and Hove City Council has put forward two options for cutting down traffic in the neighbourhood.
Both options involve a road closure between Albion Rise and Grove Hill and a bus gate at the bottom of Southover Street.
Some roads will turn from one-way to two-way, and vice versa.
Pocket parks are proposed for Sussex Street, Richmond Street, Richmond Parade and at the junction of Hampden Road.
They are green spaces that are free from motor traffic and have green landscaping and sometimes seating.
The difference between the two options is the layout of one and two-way streets and the proposed road closures for east and West Hanover.
Option one includes road closures on Milton Road, Howard Road, Hampden Road, and Bentham Road.
Whereas option two would remove access to Islingword Road from Elm Grove. Islingword Road would have one of the pocket parks further down, at Hampden Road.
The council says people living in the proposed Liveable Neighbourhood Project area have all been sent information about the workshops in the post.
A full public consultation on the final design is scheduled to take place later this year.
A Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) is a traffic calming scheme.
It works by reducing the amount of motor vehicle traffic, including cars, taxis, vans, and lorries, in residential streets.
In order to reduce the number of cars, planters and traffic filters are placed on the roads.
Sometimes ANPR cameras are installed to stop people driving through.
It is also common for pavements to be widened and cycle routes to be improved to encourage active travel.
The main aim is to cut congestion and traffic pollution by stopping cars using residential streets as rat runs.
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