More details about our proposals
- St Jude and St Paul’s Church
- The Children’s House school
- The Railway Tavern public house
- A range of local shops and businesses.
- Widened pavements to create new space for improvements such as seating, new trees, and new planting. The widened pavement areas are shown as yellow / white hatching in the drawing on this page
- Creating a designated loading bay on King Henry’s Walk for use by local residents and businesses to service their premises
- Wider, raised crossings across the entrances of Queen Margaret’s Grove and St Jude Street. These improved crossings are shown as a blue / black hatching in the drawing on this page.
- Widened pavements, narrowing the road at the junction to slow vehicle speeds. Wider pavements would create more space for improvements such as seating, trees and planting. The widened pavement areas are shown as yellow / white hatching in the drawing on this page
- Replacing the zebra crossing across the entrance of Mildmay Road with an improved, raised crossing
- Creating a loading bay on Mildmay Road, for use by the Lady Mildmay pub and local residents, servicing their premises.
- Widened pavements, narrowing Mildmay Road and Wolsey Road close to the junction with Auriga Mews. Wider pavements would create more space for improvements such as seating and planting, and a street environment that is enjoyable for children. The widened pavement areas are shown as yellow / white hatching in the drawing on this page
- Wider, raised crossings across the entrances of Wolsey Road and Auriga Mews. These improved crossings are shown as blue / black hatching in the drawing on this page.
- the proposal to relocate the school entrance to Auriga Mews
- the potential School Street in this area
- what you would like to see built on the proposed wider pavements on Mildmay Road at the junction with Wolsey Road.
- Widened pavements to create new space for child-friendly measures, such as seating, new trees and planting, colourful pavements and equipment to encourage children to play
- Wider, raised crossings across the entrances of Queen Margaret’s Grove and St Jude Street to make these roads easier to cross with children and pushchairs.
- a potential school street on St Jude Street
- public realm improvements on King Henry’s Walk and St Jude Street
- how you think the Kingsbury Road walking and cycling bridge and the space outside St Jude and St Paul's Primary School could be improved.
- Blue Badge holders who live within the scheme area – please visit our Blue Badge holder exemptions webpage for more details
- People with an Individual Exemption under our recently introduced policy – please visit our Individual Exemptions webpage for more details
- Emergency services vehicles
- Buses
- Refuse collection vehicles
- Special Educational Needs transport.
- A camera-enforced traffic filter on Mildmay Road between King Henry’s Walk and Boleyn Road
- A physical traffic filter on St Jude Street between King Henry’s Walk and Kingsbury Road
- A camera-enforced traffic filter on King Henry’s Walk between Mildmay Grove South and Balls Pond Road
- A camera-enforced one-way traffic filter on Boleyn Road between Pellerin Road and Mildmay Road (permitting all northbound traffic to pass through the filter, but only vehicles with an exemption will be able to pass southbound through the filter)
- Reversing the direction of the existing one-way westbound section of Boleyn Road where it joins the A10 to permit traffic eastbound only on this section.
- Mildmay Grove South
- Mildmay Grove North (east of Mildmay Park)
- Wolsey Road
- Queen Margaret’s Grove
- King Henry’s Walk (north of the King Henry’s Walk Adventure Playground)
- Mildmay Road (west of the existing width restriction)
- Woodville Road, Elton Place, and King Henry Street.
- King Henry’s Walk (south of the King Henry’s Walk Adventure Playground
- Kingsbury Road south of the railway bridge (no change from the current situation).
- Mildmay Road (east of the existing width restriction)
- St Jude Street
- Boleyn Road (south of Pellerin Road)
- Gillett Street and Bradbury Street
- Kingsland Green and Kingsland Passage
- Kingsbury Road north of the railway bridge.
- A camera-enforced traffic filter on Mildmay Road east of the junction with Mildmay Park
- A camera-enforced traffic filter on Wolsey Road between Queen Margaret Grove and Mildmay Grove North
- A camera-enforced traffic filter on King Henry’s Walk between Mildmay Grove North and St Jude Street
- A camera-enforced traffic filter on King Henry’s Walk between Mildmay Grove South and Balls Pond Road
- A camera-enforced one-way traffic filter on Boleyn Road between Pellerin Road and Mildmay Road (permitting all northbound traffic to pass through the filter, but only vehicles with an exemption will be able pass southbound through the filter)
- Reversing the direction of the existing one-way westbound section of Boleyn Road where it joins the A10 to permit traffic eastbound only on this section.
- Mildmay Grove South
- Mildmay Grove North (east of Mildmay Park)
- Wolsey Road (south of a point half-way between Queen Margaret’s Grove and Mildmay Grove North)
- King Henry’s Walk (north of the King Henry’s Walk Adventure Playground, and south of St Jude and St Paul’s Church).
- King Henry’s Walk (south of the King Henry’s Walk Adventure Playground
- Kingsbury Road south of the railway bridge (no change from the current situation).
- Mildmay Road
- St Jude Street
- King Henry’s Walk (north of St Jude and St Paul’s Church)
- Queen Margaret’s Grove
- Wolsey Road (north of a point half-way between Queen Margaret’s Grove and Mildmay Grove North)
- Woodville Road, Elton Place, and King Henry Street
- Boleyn Road south of Pellerin Road
- Gillett Street and Bradbury Street
- Kingsland Green and Kingsland Passage
- Kingsbury Road north of the railway bridge.
Proposal 1.1: King Henry's Walk and St Jude Street
We want to improve the public space on King Henry’s Walk between Mildmay Grove North and Mildmay Road, and on St Jude Street between King Henry’s Walk and Kingsbury Road.
This section of King Henry’s Walk is at the centre of the area, and has local businesses, homes, schools and places of workship. These include:
Our draft proposals for this area include:
This public space proposal has been designed to be compatible with either of our two traffic filtering options.
This proposal would require the removal of 12 car parking spaces on King Henry’s Walk and up to 11 car parking spaces on St Jude Street.
We want to hear your views on the proposals and what you would like to see on the proposed wider pavement spaces as well as any other improvements you would like to see at this location.
See examples of the types of measures we could introduce on the proposed wider pavements at this location.
Proposal 1.2: Mildmay Road at the junction with Mildmay Park
We want to improve safety at the junction of Mildmay Road and Mildmay Park/Newington Green. We want to create a more pleasant and welcoming public space with more room for people walking to and from Newington Green.
This section of Mildmay Road links the Mildmay area with Newington Green. Mildmay Road is a residential street and a key walking route including for children travelling to Newington Green Primary School. The Lady Mildmay public house is also located at this junction.
The junction of Mildmay Road and Mildmay Park
Our draft proposals for this area include:
This public space proposal has been designed to be compatible with either of our two traffic filtering options.
This proposal would not require the removal of any car parking spaces.
We want to hear your views on the proposals and what you would like to see on the proposed wider pavement spaces, as well as any other improvements you would like to see at this location.
See examples of the types of measures we could introduce on the proposed wider pavements at this location.
Proposal 2.1: Newington Green Primary School
Several improvements could be made to make the streets around Newington Green Primary School quieter, safer and more pleasant for children and parents accessing the school.
Newington Green Primary School’s main entrance is currently located on Matthias Road, which is often busy with traffic, posing safety issues for pupils and parents/carers travelling to and from school.
Newington Green Primary School existing main entrance on Matthias Road
To provide a safer and more welcoming environment, there is potential to relocate the school entrance to Auriga Mews on Mildmay Road.
Entrance to Newington Green Primary School on Auriga Mews. There is potential for the main entrance to be relocated here.
Potential new School Street on Mildmay Road and Wolsey Road
To create safer and healthier streets, a School Street scheme could be introduced to complement the proposed relocated Newington Green Primary School entrance.
The extents of the new School Street would cover part of Mildmay Road, Wolsey Road and Auriga Mews as shown on the map above.
(For general information about Islington School Streets, you can visit our School Streets webpage).
Please note that this potential School Street on Mildmay Road would be compatible with our traffic filtering Option 1, but would not be feasible under our traffic filtering Option 2. See more details about our traffic filtering proposals.
Proposed public realm improvements on Mildmay Road and Wolsey Road
We have developed draft proposals for an improved public space on Mildmay Road at the junction with Auriga Mews and Wolsey Road.
Proposed improvements include:
We want to hear your views on:
See examples of the types of measures we could introduce on the proposed wider pavements at this location.
Proposal 2.2: St Jude and St Paul's Primary and The Children's House schools
We want to make the streets around The Children’s House School and St Jude and St Paul’s Primary School quieter, safer and more pleasant. We want to enable all school pupils in the area to enjoy cleaner, safer, healthier streets around their schools, and provide safe areas outside school gates where children enter the school premises.
Map showing proposed improvements around The Children's House and St Jude and St Paul's Primary schools, with a potential School Street zone on St Jude Street and new public space on King Henry's Walk and St Jude Street. Potential new School Street on St Jude Street
To create safer and healthier streets, a School Street scheme could be introduced on the entire length of St Jude Street.
(For general information about Islington School Streets, you can visit our School Streets webpage).
Please note that this potential School Street on St Jude Street would be compatible with our traffic filtering Option 1, but would not be feasible under our traffic filtering Option 2. See more details about our traffic filtering proposals.
Proposed public space improvements on King Henry’s Walk and St Jude Street
Our draft Proposal 1.1, which is detailed at the top of this page, is sighted close to The Children's House and St Jude and St Paul's Primary schools. Our proposed include:
See a more detailed drawing of our draft proposals for King Henry's Walk and St Jude Street.
See examples of the types of measures we could introduce on the proposed wider pavements at this location.
Potential improvements on Kingsbury Road outside St Jude and St Paul’s Primary School
In December 2022 Network Rail closed the Kingsbury Road overbridge outside St Jude and St Paul’s Primary School due to the discovery of structural faults in the bridge structure.
Network Rail has committed to replacing this bridge with a new bridge which will restore this important walking and cycling link in the area.
There is an opportunity to improve the street environment at the south end of the bridge outside St Jude and St Paul's Primary School.
The cycle route using the bridge here is part of Transport for London’s major “Cycleway 1” cycle route. The bridge was also a well used local link for people accessing the school and other local places by walking and cycling.
We are aware that, before the bridge had to be closed, the school community had previously raised concerns about how the cycle route along Kingsbury Road and over the railway bridge interacts with the entrance of St Jude and St Paul’s Primary School, where people come to drop off and collect school children.
Your insight and ideas will help us shape how our proposals, and the design of the replacement Kingsbury Road bridge, could be improved so they work better for all users.
We want to hear your views about:
Proposal 3: Traffic filtering in the Mildmay area
We have developed two options for traffic filtering to reduce the volume of traffic on the local streets in Mildmay. You can see details of both options on this page.
What are traffic filters?
Traffic filters are closure points in the street which prevent motor traffic from cutting through local streets in our neighbourhoods.
They create quiet, safe streets with low volumes of traffic where children can play and people can enjoy spending time, and are encouraged to travel by walking and cycling.
Example of a traffic filter in the St Mary's Church area
Traffic filtering schemes are designed to ensure that all addresses that can currently be reached by motor vehicle, can still be reached by motor vehicle once the scheme is in place. Some journeys may however need to take different routes to reach certain addresses.
Our traffic filters are normally enforced by traffic cameras. These cameras read vehicle number plates and issue fines to vehicles who drive through the closure points without an agreed exemption.
Our monitoring of previous traffic filtering schemes in the borough indicates that there has been an average decrease in traffic volumes by 64% and decrease in traffic speeds by 79%, on local streets within the scheme areas. Our monitoring has also shown that on the boundary roads around these scheme areas there has been an average decrease in traffic volumes by 3% and decrease in traffic speeds by 3%.
You can find our full monitoring reports under each scheme's heading on our website.
Exemptions to traffic filters
Certain vehicles will be exempt from the camera-enforced traffic filters and therefore will not need to change routes they currently use in the area. These vehicles include:
Some traffic filters are physical closure points in the road, for example using bollards or planters. In these instances, no motor vehicles will be able to pass through the closure point.
Traffic filtering Option 1
Traffic filtering Option 1 comprises:
Traffic filtering Option 1 covering the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood project area
Accessing the scheme area by motor vehicle in traffic filtering Option 1
Addresses on the following roads in the scheme area would be accessed by motor vehicle via Mildmay Park only:
Addresses on the following roads in the scheme area would be accessed via Balls Pond Road only:
Addresses on the following roads in the scheme area would be accessed by motor vehicle via Crossway from the A10 only. Vehicles will also be able to exit this area via Boleyn Road to reach Matthias Road and Newington Green:
Traffic filtering Option 2
Traffic filtering Option 2 comprises:
Traffic filtering Option 2 covering the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood project area
Accessing the scheme area by motor vehicle in traffic filtering Option 2
Addresses on the following roads in the scheme area would be accessed by motor vehicle via Mildmay Park only:
Addresses on the following roads in the scheme area would be accessed via Balls Pond Road only:
Addresses on the following roads in the scheme area would be accessed via Crossway from the A10 only. Vehicles could also exit this area via Boleyn Road to reach Newington Green:
