Street environment improvements in St Peter's & Canalside and St Mary's & St James' wards

How we want to improve streets and spaces in this area

As part of our commitment to building a healthier, safer and more child-friendly borough, Islington Council - with support from your local ward councillors - is proposing improvements to the street environment in St Peter’s & Canalside and St Mary’s & St James’ wards.

In 2020, we introduced the St Peter’s Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) as a trial, making it permanent in 2022 after consultation, to create cleaner, less congested and more people-friendly streets in the area.

Now we want to build on these changes by making the area greener, safer, more welcoming and accessible for everyone, while supporting local businesses.

We want to improve the street environment on St Peter’s Street and at the junction of Packington Street/Prebend Street

Last summer (in June/July 2025) we asked for your ideas on improving public spaces at St Peter's Street and Packington Street/Prebend Street.

Map showing locations of proposals for St Peter's Street and Packington Street/Prebend Street

We've listened and used your feedback to help shape draft designs for these two spaces. We would like to hear your views on these proposals by Sunday 22 March 2026.

Please see details of what we are proposing at each location, including our draft designs.

You can also see a display of our proposals at South Library (115-117 Essex Rd, N1 2SL) during the consultation.

An artist's impression showing how this section of St Peter's Street could look with the proposed improvements (St Peter's Street/Rheidol Terrace junction)

An artist's impression showing how the Packington Street/Prebend Street junction could look with the proposed improvements

Tell us what you think about our proposals

We would like to hear from residents, businesses and other members of the local community any feedback you have on our designs for these two spaces.

Share your feedback by filling in our survey:

You can fill in our short survey by Sunday 22 March 2026 to tell us your feedback about our proposals.

If you have received a leaflet about this consultation, you can also choose to complete the survey within the leaflet and return it to us in one of the following ways:

• Take a photo of your completed leaflet survey and send back to us via our email address (stpeters.projects@islington.gov.uk)
• Post your completed leaflet survey to us at: Environment, Islington Council, 1 Cottage Road, London N7 8TP
• Drop your completed survey off in person to the ARC Community Centre (98b St Paul Street, N1 7DF), or South Library (115-117 Essex Rd, N1 2SL)

If you have not received a leaflet and would like to fill in a paper copy survey, you can collect a copy of our leaflet (which includes the survey) from the ARC Community Centre or South Library, and return your completed survey to either location.

Please note: The ARC Community Centre and South Library have kindly agreed to serve as collection and drop-off points for our survey. However, staff at these venues do not represent the project team. Please direct any queries to the project team directly using the council's email or postal address above.

Come to our drop-in event to tell us your views on our proposals

We will be holding a drop-in event at Popham and Cummings Community Centre (Popham Street, N1 8QU) on Wednesday 4 March from 5.30-7.30pm where you can come to see our proposals and tell us your views. If you would like to attend, please fill out our short registration form to let us know you are coming.

Next steps

Once the consultation is closed, we will consider any feedback we receive to inform a decision on whether and how to implement proposed improvements at these two locations.

Improvements to three local street spaces in the area

Between 15 September and 5 October 2025, we consulted on proposals to improve three locations:

• Britannia Row (St Mary's & St James' ward)
• Graham Street (St Peter's & Canalside ward)
• Colebrooke Row existing traffic filter between Vincent Terrace and Duncan Street (St Peter's & Canalside ward)

You can read a report summarising the consultation findings, and a summary of issues raised and officer responses.
Please see the following updates on these proposed improvements (and for more details see the "More Information about our proposed projects" section):

• Britannia Row: we are introducing new greenery and trees on the pavement - works started December 2025
• Graham Street: we are implementing new pavement build-outs with a new informal crossing, greenery, trees and cycle parking - works started January 2026
• Colebrooke Row: we also consulted on proposed improvements at the existing traffic filter between Vincent Terrace and Duncan Street including replacing the existing planter boxes with widened footways, new greenery and improved informal crossings and cycle parking. Updates on this project will be posted on this page.

We have already made some other improvements in this area including:

• Bishop Street (St Mary's & St James' ward) - in November 2025 we resurfaced the road, which was in poor condition, to provide a safer and more comfortable surface for people cycling on Cycleway 27
• Noel Road (St Peter's & Canalside ward): in summer 2025 we implemented improvements outside Hanover Primary School to enhance the existing school street - see our dedicated webpage for details.