Policy information sourced from Barking and Dagenham Barking Town Centre Area Action Plan DPD

POLICY BTC10: PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT

The Council will seek to improve the pedestrian environment by ensuring that pedestrian routes and pavements are well lit, well maintained, safe and accessible to all. It will improving pedestrian signage to and within the town centre and will ensure that pedestrian crossings include dropped kerbs and tactile paving. Links into and through the town centre will be improved by:

  • Seeking two additional pedestrian crossings of the River Roding , one on the bridge that will carry the Barking to Royal Docks Bus Corridor and one further north (as defined on the Inset Proposals Map) linking the Fresh Wharf Estate (see BTCSSA2) and Cultural Industries Quarter (see BTCSSA9).
  • A third bridge across the River Roding linking the existing Tesco site and the existing Abbey Retail Park if a single or linked scheme comes forward for the redevelopment of the two sites (see BTCSSA7).
  • Encouraging rail and underground operators to improve the pedestrian footbridges in the Plan area including adaptation to make them usable by the mobility impaired.
  • Making significant improvements to the materials and lighting of the Lintons subway under the Northern Relief Road (as defined on the Inset Proposals Map) in order to improve the pedestrian environment and reduce people’s personal safety concerns about using it.
  • Improving the pedestrian routes across Abbey Green and implementing the Home Zone approach to Abbey Road (see Policy BTC8) in order to improve links between the town centre and the historic waterfront
  • Improving the currently very difficult pedestrian access at the Longbridge Road roundabout.
  • Seeking to introduce traffic calming on St Pauls Road (including the possible conversion of the existing roundabout to a traffic light junction) in order to reduce severance between the town centre and a new neighbourhood where the Gascoigne Estate currently is. Any such calming measure will only be permitted where there is no negative impact on the existing bus network.
  • Improving currently confusing and disjointed pedestrian routes as part of creating a new Gascoigne neighbourhood (see BTCSSA6).
  • Implementing the Barking Park-Greatfields Park-Roding Valley Loop Greenway Trail (dual use with cyclists).
  • Reducing the adverse impacts on the pedestrian environment of loading and unloading in the town centre, particularly on market days.
  • Ensuring that the detailed design of East London Transit and the Barking to Royal Docks Bus Corridor provides fully for pedestrian safety in the town centre, including for those with physical or visual impairment (see Policy BTC7).
  • Implementing a town centre pedestrian signage project
  • Improving the connectivity and quality of the riverside pedestrian route (see Policy BTC21).
  • Improving pedestrian access across the A406 as part of the proposals for the Fresh Wharf Estate (see BTCSSA2).
  • Exploring with Transport for London the scope to provide additional and better pedestrian crossing facilities over the A13 into the area.

The Council will primarily implement these measures through Transport for London funding and developers’ contributions.

For more information please see the Barking Town Centre Area Action Plan DPD