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Old Kent Road and Queens Road Future Neighbourhoods strategy
Southwark Council is committed to becoming a carbon neutral borough by 2030.
The council declared a Climate Emergency in 2019 and now has a Climate Change strategy that sets-out an ambitious plan for action.
At a neighbourhood level, the Old Kent Road and Queens Road Future Neighbourhoods Strategy, explores how this target can be delivered locally, to help Old Kent Road become a zero-carbon neighbourhood .
The FN2030 neighbourhood is located between Old Kent Road and Queens Road, Pomeroy Street and Peckham Hill Street. It is home to around 17,000 people.
Objectives
The strategy addresses several, related issues:
- The need to reduce carbon emissions and achieve carbon neutrality by 2030.
- High levels of deprivation
- Health inequalities including high levels of obesity (30-40 per cent of reception aged children are overweight or obese)
- Inequalities in rates of participation in physical activities (most residents say they would like to be more active)
- High vulnerability to climate change
- Poor air quality
- The need for open space
- High use of heating contributing towards fuel poverty
The strategy is organised around four themes:
- Decarbonising energy systems and retrofitting homes, commercial and public buildings
- Improving air quality and creating zero emission zones
- Climate adapted, resilient and green neighbourhoods
- A zero-waste, circular economy
Impact
- 38,000 tonnes of CO2 saved by 2030 from installing district heating
- 922 tonnes of CO2 saved by 2030 from council retrofit projects
- 2.57 km of cycle routes delivered
- All additional residential development will be car-free
- Up to 10,624 tonnes of CO2 emissions saved from transport sources by 2030
- 23,430 sqm of new open space
- 25,963 sqm of improved open spaces (over £2.9m of capital investment)
- 84 green jobs in construction of a district heating network and 8 jobs in its operation and maintenance
- Exploring reuse of demolition materials from Tustin Estate and wood waste from local timber yard in Bramcote Park improvement project
The neighbourhood is home to around 17,000 people
The strategy will save up to 49,000 tonnes of CO2 by 2030
Creating 84 new, green jobs
Better air quality and a greener neighbourhood
