Creating Better Places
Chrisp Street Healthy Streets Case Study

Creating Better Places: Chrisp Street Corridor Healthy Streets

Pax Associates for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

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The Chrisp Street Corridor has, and continues to be, heavily developed in recent years with significant high-rise housing developments. Development landscaping and amenity initiatives have tended to occur to the rear of the properties and the footprint of buildings have been maximised by abutting development to the highway boundary. This results in a hardening of the landscape and a loss of opportunity to green public spaces as the geometry is further restricted.

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Healthy Streets Assessment results were overall consistently low for the Corridor with very low scoring for the junction of Violet Road/Devons Road/Campbell Road. These results have been critically reduced with the addition of scores relating to issues detrimental to cyclists and pedestrians. Similarly, the Cycle Level of Service Assessment undertaken for the Corridor gave a basic score which indicates that the route was only suitable for some existing cyclists and that more needs to be done to attract cyclists of every age and ability.

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Transformational change is ongoing to the Corridor whereby development initiatives have been linked to and drawn into the wider public realm. Interventions have been introduced that break up the continuous straight path of the Corridor through the neighbourhood and that provide for, and promote, pedestrian and cyclist activity, greening and further placemaking potential.