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Last summer, we ran a survey inviting local residents in Woolston and Itchen to share their thoughts about the area and identify improvements to help reduce traffic; create more attractive, liveable streets; and enable people to get around more easily, safely and sustainably in their neighbourhood. An overall summary of the survey's findings is available on our website .
In January, 110 residents attended a mix of online and face-to-face co-design workshops. A total of eight workshops took place and provided an opportunity for residents to discuss potential solutions to the issues raised in the survey.
Discussions focused on 17 streets which generated the most feedback in the initial survey. These streets were split into four sectors (North West, North East, Central and South). You can use the links below to see a summary of the survey feedback for each street, grouped by sector:
What's next?During the co-design workshops, residents worked in small groups and came up with various ideas and suggestions to help tackle the key issues on each street. These ideas have been recorded and are now being assessed by our engineers, who will look at the feasibility of the suggestions made.
We will then develop a set of proposals which could be delivered across the area within the available budget. We will consult on these with the local community in the summer.
In the meantime, you can continue to follow updates about the Woolston Active Travel Zone project by visiting our website . Please also encourage any of your friends, family and colleagues in the area to stay up to date with the latest news by subscribing to this bulletin .
Registration is now open for a series of Woolston / Itchen Active Travel Zone co-design workshops in January 2022.
These workshops will focus on the key locations that people commented on in the recent perceptions survey (as outlined in the map at the bottom of this update). They will give you an opportunity to discuss the issues that people raised at these locations and work together with us to identify potential solutions.
There are 8 workshops in total, focusing on different areas. 4 of these will take place in person at a local venue and the other 4 will be held online on Microsoft Teams. The details for the workshops and how to register are below. More information is also available here . We look forward to seeing you there!
NORTH WEST (Focusing on Bridge Road, Peartree Road and Peartree Avenue)
1. Saturday 15 January, 10am-11.45am - Online event
Register here: soton.cc/northwest1
2. Wednesday 19 January, 6pm-7.45pm - Peartree United Reformed Church Hall
Register here: soton.cc/northwest2
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NORTH EAST (Focusing on Bishops Road, Radstock Road, Manor Road South and Porchester Road)
1. Saturday 8 January, 2pm-3.45pm - Online event
Register here: soton.cc/northeast1
2. Wednesday 12 January, 6pm-7.45pm - Masonic Hall
Register here: soton.cc/northeast2
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CENTRAL (Focusing on Portsmouth Road, John’s Road, Inkerman Road, West Road and Obelisk Road)
1. Saturday 8 January, 10am-11.45am - Online event
Register here: soton.cc/central1
2. Wednesday 12 January, 2pm-3.45pm - Masonic Hall
Register here: soton.cc/central2
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SOUTH (Focusing on Victoria Road, Vosper Road, Weston Grove Road, Swift Road and Archery Road)
1. Saturday 15 January, 1.30pm-3.15pm - Online event
Register here: soton.cc/south1
2. Wednesday 19 January, 2pm-3.45pm - Woolston Community Centre
Register here: soton.cc/south2
As you know, we’ve been busy analysing all of your feedback from our recent Woolston and Itchen Active Travel Zone survey and we now wanted to share some of the key headlines that we’ve pulled out from this.
In total, 640 respondents made 2,936 contributions. These comprised of 826 comments and 2,110 agreements. Of those that responded, 72% live in the area they commented on.
What you told usYour comments covered everything from signage to cycling. The top five suggestions for Active Travel Zone improvements which received the most agreements were:
• Traffic calming
• Pedestrian crossings
• Parking restrictions
• One-way systems
• 20mph speed limits
You commented on numerous locations across both Woolston and Itchen. The top five locations for Active Travel Zone improvements which received the most agreements were:
• Obelisk Road
• John’s Road
• John Thornycroft Road
• Peartree Avenue
• Weston Grove Road
You also shared lots of feedback with us about issues not directly related to the Active Travel Zone project. We’ve gone through those with the most agreements and pulled out more than 170 comments about a range of issues including resurfacing, street cleaning, vegetation maintenance, encouraging business and more. We’ve shared these with the relevant council departments for them to look into further.
If you have any further comments or questions about the area that you’d like to contact the council about, the following links may be useful:
• Report a road maintenance issue
• Report a street cleaning issue
• Report overhanging vegetation
What’s next?The above issues and locations offer just a brief snapshot of the priorities that we have now identified after having analysed your feedback. As previously mentioned, we’ll be running a series of co-design workshops where we’ll be working with you to look in more detail at the most important issues and develop potential solutions to these. We are looking to hold these in January (postponed from the end of this year) and will be in touch at a later date to confirm dates and how to book your place.
In the meantime, keep an eye out for future updates and encourage any of your friends, family and colleagues in the area to subscribe for the latest news here . You can also follow updates by visiting the Active Travel Zone pag e on our website.
It's been a little while since we last got in touch and we wanted to update you on how the Woolston and Itchen Active Travel Zone project is progressing and how you can stay up to date with the latest news.
In total 640 respondents made 2,936 contributions to the recent survey, comprised of 826 comments and 2,110 agreements. This is a fantastic response and we want to say a huge thank you to all of you for getting involved and helping to spread the word in the local community.
We've been busy analysing all of your feedback and prioritising the main concerns and locations that you shared with us. We'll be running a series of co-design workshops a little later this year where we'll be able to look at these issues in more detail and work together to develop potential solutions.
In other news, you may have recently spotted that we're also currently engaging on proposals to create a Mobility Hub in Woolston. This is being treated separately from the Active Travel Zone project and you can find out more about this on our webpage . To have your say on our proposals, please take part in our survey before 10 October.
Finally, we also wanted to let you know about our new Woolston and Itchen Transport bulletin that has been set up to keep you informed as both of the above projects continue to progress. By signing up to this bulletin, you'll also receive invitations to the future co-design workshops connected with the Active Travel Zone project. To subscribe to these updates and make sure you get all the latest news, click here .
You can also follow updates by visiting the Active Travel Zone and Mobility Hub pages on our website.
We’re officially now in the final week of the Woolston and Itchen Active Travel Zone survey, which closes this Sunday (29 August).
Contributions are now past the 2,000 mark, with 644 comments and 1,531 agreements in total. This is an incredible response but every little helps, so please continue to spread the word with your local friends, family and colleagues and help us give the survey one final push as we approach the finishing line! Don’t forget to check out the comments as they keep coming in and let us know if you agree with them by clicking on the thumbs up button.
After Sunday, we’ll start the process of analysing your feedback and pulling out all of the key concerns and locations highlighted in the survey. We’ll be in touch at a later date to invite you to our co-design workshops later this year, where we’ll be able to work with you to identify potential solutions to the main issues everyone has told us about.
In the meantime, you can find out more about the next steps of the project on our website .
Just over three weeks into the Connecting Woolston survey, we’re now already at the halfway mark! So far, we have a staggering 1,811 contributions, including 578 comments and 1,233 agreements. If you haven’t already, don’t forget to check out the other comments people have been making and, if you agree, let us know by clicking the thumbs up button.
As we enter the last three weeks of the survey, we thought this was a good time to give you an update about what you can expect from the next stage of the project. Once the survey closes on Sunday 29 August, we’ll quickly get to work analysing all of your feedback and pulling out the key areas and concerns you have highlighted to us. This will allow us to focus our attention on the most important issues and locations which the majority of people would like to see addressed.
We will then invite you to a series of co-design workshops, where we will look more closely at those specific issues and work together to identify potential solutions to them. Co-design is all about working collaboratively with local residents and businesses to make sure that any changes in their neighbourhood are led by the very community that lives, works and travels there.
We’ll be holding the workshops in October, so please keep an eye out for future updates from us and make sure you sign up when we announce the confirmed dates for these.
Early next year, we’ll start to draw up detailed designs for your area based on the ideas discussed at these co-design workshops. We’ll then consult on these proposals with you before starting to implement the changes in your area towards the end of 2022.
More information about the project and the timelines we’re expecting to work to is available on our website .
In the meantime, keep spreading the word about the survey with your friends, family and colleagues local to the area.
It’s been a busy second week for the Connecting Woolston survey, with 430 more contributions over the past seven days - taking us to almost 1,700 in total!
This week we’ve added FAQs to the Woolston / Itchen Active Travel Zone project page over on our transport website . We hope you find these useful and if there’s anything else we haven’t covered that you’d like to know, please get in touch with us by emailing: info@myjourneysouthampton.com
In the meantime, keep your ideas coming and keep spreading the word about the survey to your friends, family and colleagues in the area!
We’re just one week into our survey gathering your thoughts and opinions about Woolston, Itchen and surrounding neighbourhoods – and already the response has been fantastic! In just one week we’ve received more than 1,250 contributions, including 458 comments and 796 agreements.
We’re seeing a good spread of comments across the whole area, with a particular focus at the moment on Victoria Road, Portsmouth Road, Obelisk Road, Johns Road and Itchen Bridge. Why not take a look at what other people are saying – don’t forget to click on the thumbs up button if you agree.
It’s brilliant to see so many of you already sharing your feedback and contributing some really great ideas. We want to make sure we hear from as many people in the area as possible so, if you haven't already, please help spread the word about the survey amongst any of your friends, family and colleagues who live and work in the area and encourage them to have their say before 29th August.
Thanks for getting involved and if you have any questions about the project, you can drop us an email at info@myjourneysouthampton.com or visit our website for more information at: transport.southampton.gov.uk/woolston