Progress on Healthy Neighbourhood in St Johns and Tanner’s Hill

We’ve released our feasibility report into establishing a Healthy Neighbourhood in St Johns and Tanner’s Hill, which is a key milestone in making the area healthier, safer and easier to get around.

Between January and March 2025, we carried out extensive community engagement and traffic monitoring. Now, the insights we have gathered have been published in a report to help shape the next steps of the programme.

It shares the outcomes of traffic monitoring, results from the engagement activities and initial concept plans.

Key insights include:

• Traffic monitoring found 13 of the 27 locations in the area were used by more than 1,000 vehicles each day, making them unsafe for cycling.
• Speeding was also an issue, with seven locations registering speeds higher than the 20mph speed limit.
• The community told us they wanted reduced traffic, more safe crossing points and better waste management.
• The public were broadly supportive of the concept plans created, but some had concerns that traffic management measures would cause traffic displacement and increased congestion.

This report will be used by decision makers to determine next steps for the programme and whether it will progress to detailed design.

You can download a summary of the feasibility report here: https://lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/roads-and-transport/healthy-neighbourhoods