Policy information sourced from Twickenham Area Action Plan
Principles 1: Principles for Transport
- Ensure motor vehicles can access the centre conveniently whilst reducing its dominance in favour of the pedestrian, to improve the ambiance of the retail area and civic space;
- Widen footways where possible to ease pedestrian overcrowding and provide new areas for seating and landscaping improvements in appropriate locations. Footways to be resurfaced where necessary to create consistent and legible walking routes;
- Extension of shared surface treatment along Water Lane/Twickenham Embankment (upstream of Water Lane)/Wharf Lane and Garfield Road, to create a more pedestrian friendly space;
- Improved pedestrian links between Grosvenor Road/London Road; Holly Road/King Street; River Crane up- and downstream, River Thames up- and downstream and on larger sites where opportunities arise;
- To improve interchange between all forms of transport, so that journeys can be seamless;
- Remove all unnecessary/redundant street furniture including guard railing, signage, cycle racks, planters, telephone boxes and information/advertising signs;
- Ensure that bus travel through and to the centre is convenient, with well-designed and located accessible bus stops with an improved waiting environment and real time information to be included where feasible;
- To provide safe and convenient access to and through the centre for cyclists and enhance cycle parking;
- Provide and promote new walking and cycling links upstream of the station and walking routes downstream along the Crane corridor to create a new green link from Twickenham town centre and the station to St Margaret’s, Whitton, Heathfield, West Twickenham and Hanworth and take the opportunity to enhance biodiversity and green infrastructure within the town;
- Ensure servicing facilities are convenient, safely positioned and properly used (this may in some parts of the centre include servicing from the front of the premises);
- Ensure that off-street parking is sufficient, well-signed and easily accessible and reduce on-street parking from Twickenham Embankment (upstream of Water Lane) to allow for an improved riverside environment;
- For street furniture and soft landscaping, see Environmental Improvement objectives.
For more information please see the Action Plan