Bath council faces legal threats over LTN29/05/2025 The council’s plans to implement a permanent low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) in Bath provide grounds for litigation, residents have warned. |
Campaigners win High Court challenge against Lambeth LTN09/05/2025 Local campaigners have won a High Court challenge against Lambeth Council over a low traffic neighbourhood (LTN). |
Parked problems and hot topics queue up at DfT11/10/2024 Some parts of the last government’s Plan for Drivers 'will persist', a top Department for Transport (DfT) official has said, as the highways sector awaits a raft of decisions from new ministers on controversial issues parked by the Tories. |
Comment: LTNs must account for people's complex lives10/10/2023 Jodi Savickas and Rachel Hiorns, placemaking and sustainable transport specialists at AtkinsRéalis, argue that there is a way forward for low traffic neighbourhoods, but that community buy-in will be crucial for schemes to work. |
PM calls for national review of LTNs31/07/2023 Prime minister Rishi Sunak has asked the Department for Transport to review low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) in England over concerns they add to congestion on nearby roads and hinder access to key services. |
'Successful' LTN axed after failing popularity test20/06/2023 A highway authority is to remove a Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) scheme that it said ‘has not been popular with many residents’, despite the scheme having ‘largely had the impact it was meant to have’. |
The long read: Culture wars come to highways28/03/2023 Attempts to tackle car dependency are meeting fierce opposition not just from residents but groups linked to a wider, more sinister, agenda. |
Council to make controversial LTN permanent16/08/2022 Lambeth Council is proposing to make one of its Low Traffic Neighbourhoods permanent and to introduce a number of improvements. |
Arrests made as Lambeth has 'zero tolernance' for LTN vandalism05/08/2021 Two people have been arrested in Lambeth in connection with alleged vandalism of signage and plantings carried out by the community at the borough’s emergency Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) schemes. |
Comment: LTNs, women's safety and why Rupa Huq MP is wrong22/03/2021 Active travel campaigner Sarah Berry weighs up the evidence around low traffic neighbourhoods and local crime figures, with a focus on women's safety and sense of security. |
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