Gellatly Road ‘mass crossing for a safer street’

More than 30 people took part in a 'mass crossing for a safer street' protest in Gellatly Road SE14 last week (20/11/2025), the latest move in a long running campaign by 'Drakefell and Gellatly United'  to make these 'roads safer and healthier for residents and the many users who use and cross them'. People crossed ...

Gellatly Road 1990s Traffic Campaign: a Geography Lesson

A perennial campaign in the SE14/SE4 area has been in relation to traffic in Gellatly Road/Drakefell Road, part of a busy B road linking  the Old Kent Road (via Pomeroy Street) with Brockley and beyond. , In the early 1990s a campaign by local residents to slow and reduce the traffic included blocking the road by continually ...

Roadblocks in Deptford and Drakefell

I haven't had much luck getting around in the last couple of days. Tonight I had to take a long diversion trying to get from New Cross to Shooters Hill because the A2 was taped off at the junction of Deptford Broadway and Deptford High Street following a traffic incident involving a police car and ...