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

POLICY BTC8: TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT/ABBEY ROAD HOME ZONE

The Council wish to encourage through traffic to remain on the primary road network and thereby reduce the levels of traffic using the roads in the Plan area as a short cut to avoid delay at the A13/A406 junction. Accordingly, the Council will implement traffic management measures in Abbey Road, St Paul’s Road and Gascoigne Road designed to reduce their attractiveness as a through route. Abbey Road between the Lighted Lady roundabout and its junction with St Paul’s Road (as defined on the Inset Proposals Map) will become a Home Zone with physical measures such as carriageway width reductions, enhanced pedestrian crossings and a 20mph speed limit. The Council’s long term aim is to completely close Abbey Road, grass it over and integrate it into the improved Abbey Green open space. All traffic calming measures will be assessed to ensure that there is no adverse impact for other road users including buses.

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