St Mary's Church area improvements

St Mary’s Church area improvements

We want to make improvements to the St Mary’s Church area.

As part of our efforts to create a greener, healthier and more child-friendly borough, Islington Council is looking to make improvements to the street environment in St Mary’s Church.

We introduced the St Mary’s Church Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN), first as a trial in 2022 and later made it permanent in 2023 after consultation. The LTN created cleaner, less congested and more people-friendly streets in the area.

Now we want to enhance the existing measures, creating a greener, more welcoming, child-friendly and accessible place for everyone, as well as supporting local businesses.

Why do we want to make these types of changes?

• Pavement widening can create safer crossings and can contribute to a more accessible walking and wheeling experience
• Greening can help soften the street environment, help mitigate climate impacts such as heat and flooding and support biodiversity
• Creating additional places for people to stop and rest in the area when walking and wheeling can support physical and mental wellbeing

We want to hear from local people on our designs for improvements. We are inviting feedback as part of a public consultation on proposed improvements on:

• Braes Street
• Halton Road
• River Place

As part of early engagement, we are also inviting feedback to help us create designs, for:

• Cross Street

See the More information about proposed projects section on the right hand side of this page to find out more about the improvements at each location, including proposed plans and drawings for each project.

Get involved

We would like to hear from residents, businesses and other members of the local community about how you would like us to improve these spaces.

Fill in our short survey about one or all of the projects:

Tell us your views on each of our proposed projects by filling in the survey at the bottom of this page by Tuesday, 24 March 2026.

You can also find paper surveys at:

• Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD
• South Library (115-117 Essex Rd, London N1 2SL)

To return your paper surveys you can:

• take a photo of your completed paper survey and send it back to us via email StMarysChurch.Projects@islington.gov.uk ,
• or return it by post (Environment, St Mary’s Church Projects, 1 Cottage Road, London N7 8TP)
• or return it in-person to the two locations above.

Come and talk to us

You’re also invited to attend our drop-in sessions where you can share your feedback directly with the project team.

Council staff will be at these locations on Wednesday, 11 March 2026:

1. Halton Road at the junction with Richmond Grove and Braes Street - 1.30pm-2.30pm
2. River Place outside the Group Practice at River Place - 2.45pm-3.45pm
3. Cross Street outside the Baptist Church – 4pm-5pm

Next steps

Your views and ideas on Braes Street, Halton Road and River Place will be considered and used to create detailed designs for these locations.

Your views and ideas on Cross Street will support us to create concept designs which will be consulted on in summer 2026.