Our engagement survey is now closed.
The survey was open from 8 February to 16 April 2023. We asked for your views on our draft proposals for the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood project, to help us shape these into final designs. Once we have developed final designs we will run a further consultation later in 2023. We will announce details on this page once they are available.
You can still see our draft proposals on this page.
You can also find out about the events we held in February 2023 to give information about the project and help shape our proposals. You can download the slides and watch a video recording of the zoom webinar we held on Monday 20 February.
Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood project
The Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood project was announced in February 2020 as Islington's first liveable neighbourhood project.
The project will involve a number of changes to streets aimed at improving air quality and making the area greener, safer and easier to walk around, cycle, scoot, and use buggies and wheelchairs. You can find out more about Liveable Neighbourhoods by visiting our webpage.
The project will focus on the east area of Mildmay ward, between Newington Green and Dalston. A future liveable neighbourhood project will focus on the area west of Newington Green and Green Lanes.
Map showing the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood project area
What you have told us so far about the area
Before our engagement survey from February to April 2023, over the past three years the council has been listening to feedback from residents in the Mildmay area.
We have received feedback from the local community and held three public meetings about the project (in February 2021, July 2022, and October 2022). Research has also been conducted with children and young people in the area.
We have also received comments sent in by email to the project team at mildmay.liveableneighbourhood@islington.gov.uk.
You have told us that:
- you are worried about air quality and road safety around Newington Green Primary School
- you want to see improvements to walking routes in the area, such as on Mildmay Park, Mildmay Road, King Henry's Walk, Mildmay Grove North, and Matthias Road.
- you want to see safer crossings on busier roads, including around Newington Green
- you want to see more pleasant and greener public spaces, and more places to stop and rest
- it is important that we make sure main roads and borough boundary roads around the project area are also prioritised in our proposals
- traffic has increased over time on local streets in Mildmay, making them unsafe and difficult to cross
- there is a lack of safe cycling routes around the area, including between Newington Green and Dalston
- you want to see more child-friendly streets in the area.
Following ideas we received from local people over the last three years, we have developed some initial proposals for the project to address the issues which people raised.
What are our draft proposals for the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood?
Our draft proposals cover five topics. These are:
- Proposal 1: New public spaces on King Henry’s Walk and Mildmay Road
- Proposal 2: Improvements to streets around schools in the area
- Proposal 3: New traffic filters to reduce air pollution and road danger
- Proposal 4: Improving main roads and borough boundary roads
- Proposal 5: Improving cycling routes around the area.
Please read this page to find out about each proposal. More detailed information can also be found here.
Proposal 1: New public spaces on King Henry's Walk and Mildmay Road
We want to create safe, less car-dominated streets so that people can enjoy spending time in the area, meet their neighbours and support local businesses.
We want to make improvements to local streets in the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood area and the boundary roads around it, to make them greener and truly people-friendly: for example, easier to cross, more accessible and safer for walking and cycling.
Map showing locations of proposed public space improvements in the project areaOur draft proposals for improvements to public spaces:
King Henry’s Walk and St Jude’s Street (see more details about this proposal). Our ideas include:
- wider pavements to create new space for measures such as seating, trees and planting
- a loading bay on King Henry’s Walk for use by local residents and businesses to service their premises
- raised crossings across the entrances of Queen Margaret’s Grove and St Jude Street.
Mildmay Road at the junction with Mildmay Park (see more details about this proposal). Our ideas include:
- wider pavements, narrowing the road at the junction to slow vehicle speeds and creating new space for measures such as seating, trees and planting
- a shorter, raised crossing to replace the existing zebra crossing at the entrance of Mildmay Road
- a loading bay on Mildmay Road, for use by the Lady Mildmay pub and local residents, servicing their premises.
We asked for your ideas about how we should design these spaces including what could be built on the new wider pavements. This could include:
- new green space such as trees, rain gardens and planting
- wider and smoother pavements
- new public seating and places to meet in the street
- ways to make the space more child-friendly, such as play equipment or colourful paint in the roadway.
Proposal 2: Improvements to streets around schools
We want to improve the environment for children travelling to and from the three schools in the area, as well as for school staff and parents/carers.
Map showing proposed improvements around schools in the project area
New public spaces around school entrances
We want school pupils in the area to be able to enjoy healthier streets around their schools.
We are proposing to create a new public space on Mildmay Road just south of Newington Green Primary School, at the school entrance on Auriga Mews. There is potential for the school's main entrance to be relocated to Auriga Mews (find out more details about this proposal).
We asked for your views about how we could design this proposed new space. This could include:
- new green space such as trees, rain gardens and planting
- wider and smoother pavements
- new public seating and places to meet in the street
- ways to make the space more child-friendly, such as play equipment or colourful paint in the roadway.
New School Streets in the areaSchool Streets aim to make the streets outside schools safer and improve air quality by prohibiting traffic (except resident permit holders within the School Street zone) from driving in the zone at drop-off and pick-up times. (There is more information about School Streets in Islington at our School Streets webpage).
There is an existing School Street zone outside St Jude & St Paul’s Primary School, covering Kingsbury Road, Kingsbury Terrace and Burder Close.
There is potential to introduce two new School Street zones, on St Jude’s Street and Mildmay Road. For details:
- Proposed improvements around Newington Green Primary School (see our proposals)
- Proposed improvements around St Jude & St Paul's Primary and The Children's House schools (see our proposals).
Proposal 3: New traffic filters to reduce air pollution and road danger
Our proposals for traffic filtering in the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood area would help create safer, friendlier streets with lower traffic volumes and speeds.
Reducing traffic in the project area would reduce air pollution, noise pollution, and road danger, making it safer and easier for people to make their local journeys by walking, wheeling and cycling. The proposals would also enable safe walking, scooting and cycling routes for parents and children to travel to schools in the area.
We have developed two traffic filtering proposal options for the area, which are shown on this page.
You can also see more details about our traffic filtering proposals including information about which streets are within each sub-area shown in the proposals.
Traffic filtering proposal Option 1
Map showing traffic filtering proposal Option 1
Traffic filtering proposal Option 2
Map showing traffic filtering proposal Option 2
See more details about our traffic filtering proposals.
Proposal 4: Improving the main roads and borough boundary roads around Mildmay
Local people have told us that it is important we improve the boundary roads around the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood as part of the project.
We recognise that these roads usually carry larger volumes of traffic due to their location and character in the road network, and we are committed to investing in improvements for people living and travelling on these roads.
These roads are:
- Balls Pond Road
- Boleyn Road north of Crossway
- Matthias Road
- Newington Green
- Mildmay Park.
Map showing the main roads and borough boundary roads surrounding the project area
We asked for your views about how we should improve these roads. This could include the following:
- new and upgraded pedestrian crossings
- new seating and public space
- new green space such as trees and planting
- improved lighting
- wider pavements
- improved bus facilities
- improved cycle tracks and cycle parking.
See more details about the types of changes we could make to the streets at these locations.
Proposal 5: Improving cycling routes around Mildmay
We want to create better cycling connections through Mildmay, linking to and improving existing cycle routes.
In December 2022 Network Rail closed the Kingsbury Road bridge on Cycleway 1 within the project area due to the bridge structure being unsafe. Network Rail has committed to replacing the bridge and is working on designing a replacement. Beyond this however, we are also investigating the need to improve Cycleway 1 through the Mildmay area more generally.
We also want to connect the existing cycle routes in the wider area with new potential east-west cycle routes across Mildmay. Existing routes surrounding the project area are shown on the map. These routes are:
- Cycleway 1, which goes through the project area between Stoke Newington and De Beauvoir
- Green Lanes to the north west of the project area
- A new cycle route between Dalston and Waltham Forest immediately to the east of the project area, currently under construction by Hackney Council and Transport for London
- A popular north-south route in Mildmay ward west of the project area, linking Green Lanes with Canonbury Park North via Petherton Road and Wallace Road.
Map showing the existing and potential future cycle routes in and around the project area
In our survey we asked for your ideas about what types of improvements you think we should make within the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood project area to better connect these cycle routes and enable people living in Mildmay to safely cycle for more of their local journeys.
Next steps
In the engagement phase of the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood project from February to April 2023, we have been gathering feedback and insight from the public on our early design proposals, including through our survey and events.
We will use your feedback to improve our proposed designs and develop further proposals for the boundary roads and cycling routes around the project area.
Following this, there will be a formal public consultation on final proposals later in 2023.
A decision on whether to implement the scheme, and in what form, will be taken after the public consultation has finished and we have considered the feedback received during the consultation.
Our engagement survey is now closed.
The survey was open from 8 February to 16 April 2023. We asked for your views on our draft proposals for the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood project, to help us shape these into final designs. Once we have developed final designs we will run a further consultation later in 2023. We will announce details on this page once they are available.
You can still see our draft proposals on this page.
You can also find out about the events we held in February 2023 to give information about the project and help shape our proposals. You can download the slides and watch a video recording of the zoom webinar we held on Monday 20 February.
Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood project
The Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood project was announced in February 2020 as Islington's first liveable neighbourhood project.
The project will involve a number of changes to streets aimed at improving air quality and making the area greener, safer and easier to walk around, cycle, scoot, and use buggies and wheelchairs. You can find out more about Liveable Neighbourhoods by visiting our webpage.
The project will focus on the east area of Mildmay ward, between Newington Green and Dalston. A future liveable neighbourhood project will focus on the area west of Newington Green and Green Lanes.
Map showing the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood project area
What you have told us so far about the area
Before our engagement survey from February to April 2023, over the past three years the council has been listening to feedback from residents in the Mildmay area.
We have received feedback from the local community and held three public meetings about the project (in February 2021, July 2022, and October 2022). Research has also been conducted with children and young people in the area.
We have also received comments sent in by email to the project team at mildmay.liveableneighbourhood@islington.gov.uk.
You have told us that:
- you are worried about air quality and road safety around Newington Green Primary School
- you want to see improvements to walking routes in the area, such as on Mildmay Park, Mildmay Road, King Henry's Walk, Mildmay Grove North, and Matthias Road.
- you want to see safer crossings on busier roads, including around Newington Green
- you want to see more pleasant and greener public spaces, and more places to stop and rest
- it is important that we make sure main roads and borough boundary roads around the project area are also prioritised in our proposals
- traffic has increased over time on local streets in Mildmay, making them unsafe and difficult to cross
- there is a lack of safe cycling routes around the area, including between Newington Green and Dalston
- you want to see more child-friendly streets in the area.
Following ideas we received from local people over the last three years, we have developed some initial proposals for the project to address the issues which people raised.
What are our draft proposals for the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood?
Our draft proposals cover five topics. These are:
- Proposal 1: New public spaces on King Henry’s Walk and Mildmay Road
- Proposal 2: Improvements to streets around schools in the area
- Proposal 3: New traffic filters to reduce air pollution and road danger
- Proposal 4: Improving main roads and borough boundary roads
- Proposal 5: Improving cycling routes around the area.
Please read this page to find out about each proposal. More detailed information can also be found here.
Proposal 1: New public spaces on King Henry's Walk and Mildmay Road
We want to create safe, less car-dominated streets so that people can enjoy spending time in the area, meet their neighbours and support local businesses.
We want to make improvements to local streets in the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood area and the boundary roads around it, to make them greener and truly people-friendly: for example, easier to cross, more accessible and safer for walking and cycling.
Map showing locations of proposed public space improvements in the project areaOur draft proposals for improvements to public spaces:
King Henry’s Walk and St Jude’s Street (see more details about this proposal). Our ideas include:
- wider pavements to create new space for measures such as seating, trees and planting
- a loading bay on King Henry’s Walk for use by local residents and businesses to service their premises
- raised crossings across the entrances of Queen Margaret’s Grove and St Jude Street.
Mildmay Road at the junction with Mildmay Park (see more details about this proposal). Our ideas include:
- wider pavements, narrowing the road at the junction to slow vehicle speeds and creating new space for measures such as seating, trees and planting
- a shorter, raised crossing to replace the existing zebra crossing at the entrance of Mildmay Road
- a loading bay on Mildmay Road, for use by the Lady Mildmay pub and local residents, servicing their premises.
We asked for your ideas about how we should design these spaces including what could be built on the new wider pavements. This could include:
- new green space such as trees, rain gardens and planting
- wider and smoother pavements
- new public seating and places to meet in the street
- ways to make the space more child-friendly, such as play equipment or colourful paint in the roadway.
Proposal 2: Improvements to streets around schools
We want to improve the environment for children travelling to and from the three schools in the area, as well as for school staff and parents/carers.
Map showing proposed improvements around schools in the project area
New public spaces around school entrances
We want school pupils in the area to be able to enjoy healthier streets around their schools.
We are proposing to create a new public space on Mildmay Road just south of Newington Green Primary School, at the school entrance on Auriga Mews. There is potential for the school's main entrance to be relocated to Auriga Mews (find out more details about this proposal).
We asked for your views about how we could design this proposed new space. This could include:
- new green space such as trees, rain gardens and planting
- wider and smoother pavements
- new public seating and places to meet in the street
- ways to make the space more child-friendly, such as play equipment or colourful paint in the roadway.
New School Streets in the areaSchool Streets aim to make the streets outside schools safer and improve air quality by prohibiting traffic (except resident permit holders within the School Street zone) from driving in the zone at drop-off and pick-up times. (There is more information about School Streets in Islington at our School Streets webpage).
There is an existing School Street zone outside St Jude & St Paul’s Primary School, covering Kingsbury Road, Kingsbury Terrace and Burder Close.
There is potential to introduce two new School Street zones, on St Jude’s Street and Mildmay Road. For details:
- Proposed improvements around Newington Green Primary School (see our proposals)
- Proposed improvements around St Jude & St Paul's Primary and The Children's House schools (see our proposals).
Proposal 3: New traffic filters to reduce air pollution and road danger
Our proposals for traffic filtering in the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood area would help create safer, friendlier streets with lower traffic volumes and speeds.
Reducing traffic in the project area would reduce air pollution, noise pollution, and road danger, making it safer and easier for people to make their local journeys by walking, wheeling and cycling. The proposals would also enable safe walking, scooting and cycling routes for parents and children to travel to schools in the area.
We have developed two traffic filtering proposal options for the area, which are shown on this page.
You can also see more details about our traffic filtering proposals including information about which streets are within each sub-area shown in the proposals.
Traffic filtering proposal Option 1
Map showing traffic filtering proposal Option 1
Traffic filtering proposal Option 2
Map showing traffic filtering proposal Option 2
See more details about our traffic filtering proposals.
Proposal 4: Improving the main roads and borough boundary roads around Mildmay
Local people have told us that it is important we improve the boundary roads around the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood as part of the project.
We recognise that these roads usually carry larger volumes of traffic due to their location and character in the road network, and we are committed to investing in improvements for people living and travelling on these roads.
These roads are:
- Balls Pond Road
- Boleyn Road north of Crossway
- Matthias Road
- Newington Green
- Mildmay Park.
Map showing the main roads and borough boundary roads surrounding the project area
We asked for your views about how we should improve these roads. This could include the following:
- new and upgraded pedestrian crossings
- new seating and public space
- new green space such as trees and planting
- improved lighting
- wider pavements
- improved bus facilities
- improved cycle tracks and cycle parking.
See more details about the types of changes we could make to the streets at these locations.
Proposal 5: Improving cycling routes around Mildmay
We want to create better cycling connections through Mildmay, linking to and improving existing cycle routes.
In December 2022 Network Rail closed the Kingsbury Road bridge on Cycleway 1 within the project area due to the bridge structure being unsafe. Network Rail has committed to replacing the bridge and is working on designing a replacement. Beyond this however, we are also investigating the need to improve Cycleway 1 through the Mildmay area more generally.
We also want to connect the existing cycle routes in the wider area with new potential east-west cycle routes across Mildmay. Existing routes surrounding the project area are shown on the map. These routes are:
- Cycleway 1, which goes through the project area between Stoke Newington and De Beauvoir
- Green Lanes to the north west of the project area
- A new cycle route between Dalston and Waltham Forest immediately to the east of the project area, currently under construction by Hackney Council and Transport for London
- A popular north-south route in Mildmay ward west of the project area, linking Green Lanes with Canonbury Park North via Petherton Road and Wallace Road.
Map showing the existing and potential future cycle routes in and around the project area
In our survey we asked for your ideas about what types of improvements you think we should make within the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood project area to better connect these cycle routes and enable people living in Mildmay to safely cycle for more of their local journeys.
Next steps
In the engagement phase of the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood project from February to April 2023, we have been gathering feedback and insight from the public on our early design proposals, including through our survey and events.
We will use your feedback to improve our proposed designs and develop further proposals for the boundary roads and cycling routes around the project area.
Following this, there will be a formal public consultation on final proposals later in 2023.
A decision on whether to implement the scheme, and in what form, will be taken after the public consultation has finished and we have considered the feedback received during the consultation.
King Henry's Walk and St Jude Street - drawing showing where public space improvements could be built (381 KB) (pdf)
