Cllr Steve Adams, Belsize ward, Camden
Published:
9:00 AM April 28, 2021
The £1.3m spent on Prince of Wales Road s cycle lanes could have taught several thousand children to ride a bike
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A year ago, as the pandemic hit, Camden pushed through wide-ranging emergency powers. A big impact on people’s lives was removing democratic oversight of traffic changes: including road closures and the removal of parking spaces.
Camden also removed the role of councillors to scrutinise these decisions and reduced the right of residents to be consulted. A year on, people wonder why these emergency restrictions on consultation still exist and what can be done to ensure good schemes are permanent and bad schemes reversed.