traffic Archives - Brockley SE4

Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Gellatly Road ‘mass crossing for a safer street’

Nov

2025

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

Mar

2023

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

Jun

2014

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 ...

Trees in the City – 26th April 2014 – Conference Report

May

2014

The Brockley Society Tree Committee are delighted to report a little more fully about the presentations given at our hugely successful conference last month. Wake up and smell the pollutionLewisham Mayor Sir Steve Bullock opened the conference by raising the issue of rising city pollution and the need for more trees to make the urban environment sustainable. He kindly ...

TfL criticised for cutting pedestrian crossing times

Jan

2014

The London Assembly has criticised TfL for cutting green man phases at pedestrian crossings to six seconds at 568 sites across London, four of which are in Brockley/New Cross and ten of which are in Lewisham. [...]

A Breath Of Fresh Air

Oct

2013

More and more often we are coming across serious scientific research that backs up our sense that our urban trees are good for us, not just because they look stunning, but because they are making a significant contribution to our health in our gritty city environments. A case in point is research recently presented on BBC2's ...

Brockley schoolchildren face traffic pollution risk

Sep

2013

Three schools within Brockley ward lie within a zone that increases children's propensity to develop traffic-related respiratory conditions, according to research by the Clean Air for London campaign. [...]

Petition: 20 is plenty on Wickham Road

Jul

2013

Last summer, Lewisham council decided to repave the top half of Wickham Road, leading down towards Lewisham Way. Given the inordinate number of bumps and potholes, along with the fault-like crevice that was sunk deep into the western side of the road, the repair work was long overdue. [...]

Comment: What Will Boris’ Cycling Vision Mean for Lewisham?

Apr

2013

What impact will Boris Johnson's cycling vision have on Lewisham? The post Comment: What Will Boris’ Cycling Vision Mean for Lewisham? appeared first on alternativeSE4 - a blog for Brockley, Ladywell, Crofton Park and Telegraph Hill. [...]