Save our Safer Streets Tower Hamlets
Save Our Safer Streets is a group of Tower Hamlets residents and business owners who want safer, cleaner and greener streets in the borough
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Rosannagh Rogers
Juliette
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About
Website: https://www.saveoursaferstreets.org
Twitter: @SaveBGstreets
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sossbethnalgreen/
- Save Our Safer Streets is a grassroots Tower Hamlets campaign group which has succeeded in keeping the newly built pedestrian-friendly streets around Old Bethnal Green Road, Columbia Road and Arnold Circus, despite plans by Tower Hamlets Council to spend millions of pounds reintroducing thousands of vehicles every day to these narrow residential streets.
- In part through our campaigning, two council consultations in 2022 and 2023 demonstrated the clear majority of local residents and businesses support the safer street layouts. We also had vocal support from teachers, doctors and the police.
- More than 3,000 people signed our petition calling on the council to stop, listen and then improve the street layouts.
- Nevertheless, the council decided on 20 September 2023 to remove current layouts
- 1,100 people then donated to our CrowdJustice campaign to fund our legal challenge and it is because the high court has granted us a hearing that the council is not implementing its decision.
- We hope to win the court case in 2024 which will undo the council’s decision, but beyond the immediate campaign to save our safer streets, parklets and community spaces, we also want to be part of developing a growing coalition of people in Tower Hamlets who want the council to explore ways to make the whole borough a safer place to get around, especially for those who walk, wheel, cycle and take public transport.
- Up to this point we have been organised as an informal group of 12 people in a steering committee – all volunteers who have guided the campaign since July 2022, covering project management, legal, lobbying, research, press, social media, events, community engagement, website.
- Through a range of donations, the group now has the capacity to engage paid support, which will significantly increase its range of activities over the next two years, up to and beyond the 2026 elections in Tower Hamlets.
We hope to now focus our work on community engagement, especially in the Bengali community and focus on expanding this work throughout Tower Hamlets and building a network together for safer streets.
Our team
Rosannagh Rogers
Juliette