Public Meeting16 th March 2016

Hartley Hall , Flower Lane,

Mil l Hi l l , NW72JA

MILL HILL

NEIGHBOURHOOD

FORUM

Introductions

Mill Hill Circus redesign – TfL

NIMR-MRC Initial Development scheme – Barrett (London)

MHNF update on our Projects

MHNF AGM

Close

MHNF – 28- Local Residents who volunteer their time in an attempt to make Mill Hill a better place to live, work & play.

Non Political

Barnet Council will have a statutory obligation to consider the policies in our Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) when determining planning applications

THIS EVENING’S AGENDA

DESIGNATED AREA: MILL HILL WARD &

THE NW7 POSTCODES IN HALE WARD

One of the

largest

Neighbourhood

Forum areas

1000+ across

England

Population:

Mill Hill

2011 - 18500

2018 –21950

2023 –24750

2028 –25900 40%

Hale

2011 –16495

2018 –17148

2023 –16807

2028 - 16809

MHNF= Mill Hill +

40% of Hale.

2011 = 25098

2018 = 28809

2028 = 32623 30%Source: GLA

TfL David Condon –

Senior Portfolio Sponsor - North & West

Road Space Management - Sponsorship

‘Realising road improvements for a better London ’

PLANNED CHANGES TO MILL HILL CIRCUS

Presentation provided separately

NIMR- MRC - Barnet Council’s Design Brief

The NIMR site is comprised of 2 distinct areas

northern area largely consists of open space used for

sport and recreation

southern area which is more developed and is main

focus for research and development activity

On the basis of existing buildings on the NIMR site there

are three distinct Clusters:

Ridgeway Cluster

Burtonhole Lane Cluster

Valley Cluster

Barrett (London)

Plans will Evolve – Further Exhibitions for Public Consultation

Saturday 16 th April Mill Hill Library

Monday 18 th April Adam & Eve Public House

NIMR – MRC DEVELOPMENT

6 Firms “pitched” - 2 from Mill Hill

Brief was:

Barratt London encourages those designing public art

to consider how their work can be incorporated within

the buildings themselves.

you need to illustrate your ideas and explain how they

would be produced, especially where they might be

repeated on the building or across the site.

NIMR – ART DESIGN CONTEST

CONCEPT 1 : DOUBLE HELIX WIND SCULPTURES IN COPPER

MANAGING CHANGE

CHANGE IS HAPPENING ALL AROUND US-

WE NEED TO INSPIRE & ENCOURAGE THE

RIGHT CHANGE!

Can we get an active Traders Association going again?

JUNCTION OF BROCKENHURST

GARDENS & THE

BROADWAY

THE

“POCKET

PARK”-

£8000 from Tesco or £12000

Support from Barnet Council?

Volunteers?

Local Businesses?

Suppliers?

And

Hanging

Baskets

too?

NW7 Hub - a MHRA initiative

NW7 Hub at 80 Daws Lane

for the community, by the community

Being Del ivered

w/c 4 th Apr i l ’16

(Subject to f ine

weather. )

CRICKET

PAVILION

MILL HILL

PARK

Barnet Council

persuaded to

fund £9,999

Original Pavilion burnt

down in 2009 –

“Temporary Pavilion”

has been 2 Metal

Containers ever

since!!

“We have allocated funding for this scheme and are just await ing the design before an order can be raised for the works .”

“With regards to the pot holes we shall arrange for them to be patch repaired as a matter of urgency.”

LB Barnet –GreenSpacesTeam 08.03.16

DAWS LANE

CAR PARK -

LIGHTS

We await

further

consultation

with Meadow

Partners

once they

have

addressed all

of our issues.

PENTAVIA

PARK

Up to 850 Flats, 10-storeys high,

450 Car Park Spaces

• Classified as A1 Shops & TGI as

A3 Restaurant– Requires change

of use to Residential C3a

• “None will be affordable” –

Barnet’s Local Plan says 40%

• Private Rented Properties on 1 or

3 month contracts

• Minimum 1125 car park spaces

needed in such development!

• Access from A1/A41 poor and

Bunns Lane already over-

congested

• Light pollution – impact on

University of London Observatory

• Completely out of character with

surroundings!

• Original scheme to extend Retail

and Leisure facilities was

encouraged!

AECOM Town Centre Review

• Paid for by DCLG

• Commissioned & Reviewed by MHNF

• Provides an “Evidence Base”

• Identifies where improvements are required

• Suggests in outline some possible remedial actions

• Solutions need to be developed in an agreed programme

• Managing Expectations – no overnight fixes

• Direction of Travel

• 2020 “The Broadway” will celebrate 100 Years.

Projects Arising• Redevelopment of Mill Hill Broadway Station

• Town Square – POCKET PARK

• Public Realm New Crossings (20MPH)Mill Hill Circus –TFLBins on the High Street – rear Service AreasGreeningStreet Furniture

• Smarten our Shop Fronts & the Flats Above

• Extend Town Centre Boundary

• Develop the Evening Economy

• Modal Transport shift

• Salcombe Gardens (Apex Corner- Holders Hill)

MILL HILL BROADWAY STATION

- REDEVELOPMENT

“Its an EYESORE!”

• Noise & Air Pollution

• M1 dissects Town Centre

• No “Step-Free” accesso 39 Steps to Platform

• Lack of Parking for Localso Bunns Lane Car Park generates £200k

pa – 95% from Commuters

• Undercroft-Dank & Dismal

• V.POOR Gateway to Mill Hill

• Deters Investment

• No Pub in High Street!

• Most buses do not need to

enter the Undercroft

Vision – within Constraints obviously

• Bunns Lane Multi-storey Car Park with Shops/Offices/Flats, providing bridge over railway with lifts to platforms providing step-free. (see report written for Barnet Council - April15)

• Undercroft – reduced area for buses & rest for pub/retail/leisure

• New Station entrance from Station Road (at Booking office level) and from new Car Park

Current Condition – Car Park (Bunns Lane)•

Current Condition - Station

•Platform built for 12 car Trains!

Steps down from Platform 2 uninviting - ? Dangerous at Peak Times

Subway to platforms 2,3 & 4 adds more steps.

Oyster Terminals poorly placed

Current Condition- Undercroft

• Dirty, usually damp!

• Bins for all to see by

“Information Point”

• Minimal seating

• Mini-Cab Shack & Loo

• Ancient Cycle Racks –

few will use

• Cars Parked or dropping

off, & Buses, don’t mix

well with pedestrians.

• Footways & Road in poor

condition

• Smelly, dark – not nice!

Possibilities – Step Free Access

• A Bridge Across from

Multi-Storey Car Park

• Possibly joining to old

Lift shaft?

French example!

Current “unsightly” structure.

West Hampstead Thameslink

Possibilities – The Undercroft

Green Wall Gastro Pub

Entertainment Spaces

Key Numbers

• 185 + 44 Current Car Park spaces

• 2.7m + Passenger Journeys & growing 7% PA

• 10,000 & 2500 New Dwellings in Colindale & Mill Hill East

• Mill Hill Broadway Station provides much better links to

Central London currently, than local Northern Line

stations plus access to Gatwick, Luton Airports

• 2018 brings Crossrail links from Farringdon (e.g. Heathrow)

• Mill Hill/Hale has 14% of Population over 65. This will grow

to nearly 20% by 2030

• 1500 Current blue badge holders in catchment area

• 2020 will be the 100 year anniversary of The

Broadway, Mill Hill

The view from Hale Lane is not good either

•

The Road & Footpath layout requires redesign with crossing(s) & the public realm updating

Meetings held with Barnet Council , Govia-Thameslink, Network Rail, Highways England, TfL – Matthew Offord MP chairs our main Project Meetings.

Feasibility Study - £60k to be funded

DfT “Access for All” – New funding bids from 2018 for work to be carried out from 2019

With Private Funding for Multi -storey Car Park and Hotel, plus Retail/Commercial space in the “Undercroft” we can minimise our call for DfT grant, gaining height for Bridge Across & Lifts

Highways England reviewing 5 “Noise Hot -spot”s along M1 from Scratchwood Services to Five-Ways Corner, with emphasis on the stretch at Mill Hill Broadway.

Currently Testing Solar/Sound Proof Barriers on M40 at High Wycombe

James Gillett (no relation) improving current state of the station, cleaning, seating, lighting and Gates

MILL HILL BROADWAY STATION

- REDEVELOPMENT

M40ceg 14.03.16 -Latest news from M40 CEG

Status Update for M40 Project with Highways EnglandHighways England are at present undertaking preliminary design and location reports on the 21

sites between Junction3 ( Loudwater) and Junction 8 ( Milton Common.) along the M40. These

reports are scheduled to be available by the end of March 2016.

It is hoped that there will be public exhibitions to be held in late Spring 2016, dates and

locations to be announced. The detailed design stage will be completed by September 2016,

with the installation work due to begin in Spring 2017. Installation is likely to take approximately

one year.

The project proceeding is dependent on the outcome of the business case and the investment

decision by Highways England

Public Realm (Aecom P5,8,19,20,21,22,23)

• Pedestrian Crossings – Retain 3 Pelican

• Establish 4 new “Uncontrolled or informal” crossings.

• Reducing real speed to 20MPH (with or without signs?)

? Availability of

Funds from London

Mayor through

LIP – programme

Could look to further

management of the

Carriageway &

pavements, See Page 23

Bins on the High Street -• New Investors will not come while it all looks so scruffy!

Bins – Rear Service Areas P7, 18

Rear Service Access

Cover-up the Bins

Alternative Refuse Collection

• Include Commercial Re-cycling.

• Collect in plastic bags EVERY evening – timed collections

• Waste kept in each store until collection due

• Strict Enforcement

• Changes to planning policies for

shops/commercial to make provision

of refuse storage on site mandatory

• Household waste only on the High Street

on “evening” of collection.

Greening P21• We need more Tree Planting along the Broadway

• The Pocket Park will help

14 posts

for Hanging

baskets –

unused for

last 5

years!

Street Furniture P22• Most of it is Tired

• Some is superfluous

(e.g. Phone-box but it houses

Barnet free WiFi)

• More/Better Seating required

• Cycle posts

• Service Posts for Market use

• Consistent branding to suit

• No Public Toilets (except hidden in Library)

Up-dated furniture fit

for today’s functionality

Emphasis of durability and low maintenance – over time saving costs

Solar munchers

Clean Lines – not too comfortable

Stylish, with

function

Railings –

are they

necessary?

Shop Fronts & Flats Above – P20• Lack of design consistency

• Shutters detract

• Many Flats above lack any paint on their windows!

We propose to establish outline guidelines in NDP!

Perhaps we need a joint scheme to bring flats back into use,

working with Freeholders (grants are available from the Council)

Town Centre Boundary - DESTINATION

Evening Economy - P15

• Few reasons to visit at Night – poor selection of restaurants, no cinema, no PUB

• Property rents and rates not viable if use cannot be extended through the day & evening

• Residents spending their disposable income elsewhere, notably Central London & Borehamwood

• New Developments (MHE & Colindale)

• Potential for Undesirable Behaviour

• Secondary Pedestrian Routes unattractive e.g. to Daws Lane

• A1 : A3 mix ?

• Improved feature lighting, focused to footpath rather than carriageways

Improving Bus/Lite Rail Connections• Ultimately – A Lite Rail or Tram to Finchley Central on to

Edgware/ Bushey, and to Old Oak Common for HS2/Crossrail –relieving Brent Cross

• Short Term – single decker bus service from Millbrook Park/Mill Hill East Station along Devonshire Road (or old Railway line) to Pursley Road, (new Road access) into Copthall, then out along Champions Way to Page Street, to Fiveways Corner, along A41 to Greyhound Hill, Colindale Stn, Graham Park Way to Mill Hill Broadway, then along Flower Lane, Bunns Lane to Page Street, back into Copthall, out to Pursley road, returning to MHE

• Copthall Sports Centre is inaccessible & it is for Barnet residents not just those from Mill Hill! Saracens would benefit too!

• Or could Autonomous Vehicles meet these needs.

• Pro-active strategic thinking needed NOW.

Safe Cycle Paths -• Research shows half of all London suburban car trips could

be cycled in 10 minutes, yet just 133,000 of the 2.7m outer

London journeys that are cycle able are actually done by

bike.

Salcombe Gardens (then Apex, & Holders Hill – Locals)

• Paving & bollards mostly broken

• Shop Fronts are awful

• No Greening

• Anti-social behaviour - But it looks as

though nobody cares anyway!

• Barnet Council owns the Freeholds

• Barnet Homes manage the flats above

• Barnet Property Services manage the

shops

Supplement with Crowdsourcing?

Salcombe Gardens• New Assisted Car Home

• Also scheme for 6-10 Flats where lock up garages are today

• 6 Shop Front and new Public Realm with trees

• Estimate £80k

• Mayor of London £20k

• Barnet Council/ Homes match fund £20k

• 400+ Households

• Within 500 yards

• Crowdsource £20k

• Shop Keepers £20k

• GATEWAY to area

Markets on the BROADWAY

French Market Friday 20th & Saturday 21st May

World Village Market Fri, Sat & Sun 10-12 June

Italian Market Friday 8th and Saturday 9 th July

Italian Market To be confirmed for Sept/Oct

French Market Friday 11th & Saturday 12 th November

Xmas Market December to be confirmed

Barnet Council proposing a Country Fair in Mill Hill Park

Saturday 25 th & Sunday 26 th June

Watch this space…..Concern over Congestion & Parking but could be a

lot of FUN

Farmers’ Markets – Every other Sunday in Bunns Lane Car Park

MARKETS & COUNTRY FAIR

MILL HILL FARMERS’ MARKET PROPOSAL (1/3)

Why

- From a survey1 that was conducted in autumn 2015 85% of residents agreed they would welcome regular markets and/or specialty shops.

- The Broadway lacks certain produce (e.g. fishmonger, cheese shop, ‘free-from’ bakery/confectionery) and while there may not be demand high enough to sustain a traditional bricks-and-mortar shop, a bi-weekly market could just fill the gap.

What

- 15 stalls, all approved by FARMA to ensure high quality of predominantly local produce.

- Twice a month on a Sunday between 10am and 2pm.

- Provision of chip-and-pin card machines to farmers to reduce queuing time and for shoppers convenience.

1 MHNF Public Meeting 9th September 2015.

MILL HILL FARMERS’ MARKET PROPOSAL (2/3)

Where

- Bunn’s Lane car park, is

significantly underused at the

weekends and to have a regular

farmers’ market would give it an

extra use, as well as supporting local

producers and small businesses.

- The Plan2 also speaks of re-

development of Mill Hill Broadway

station undercroft, including adding

flexible commercial space and so in

future the existing farmers market

could become a part of new

redevelopment.

2 Mill Hill – The Broadway Development Brief.

MILL HILL FARMERS’ MARKET PROPOSAL (3/3)

Who

- The concept is being pursued by Svetlana Sawhney, a Mill Hill resident for 3 years.

- Local support of Councillors: John Hart, Val Duschinsky and Tom Davey as well as John Gillett, Chairman of MHNF.

Next Steps

- Pushing Capita, Highways and Property Services departments to allocate request for lease.

- Researching what produce the residents for Mill Hill would be most interested in from farmers.

- Your comments and feedback are very much welcomed!

- Please reach out to Svetlana on mailsve@gmail.com

INVENTED & BUILT BY FRED FRANCIS

In a factory in Tennyson Road, Mill Hill until 1954

94% of “Accidents” are driver error!

The average car is used for 40 minutes per day on the road

Pilots happening now in Bristol, Greenwich, Milton Keynes and Coventry

Regulatory environment being put in place in UK

Vehicles have 360° Vision & do not drink alcohol!

Will cut congestion and journey times

George Osbourne says “they will represent the most fundamental change to transport since the invention of the internal combustion engine”

Insured by the Vehicle Manufacturer

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

THE CAR HAS T WO D RIV ING M O D ES , EAS E AND B O O S T. IN EAS E , THE CAR

D RIV ES I T S ELF, ALLOWING THE D RIV ER TO RELAX , READ A HO LO GRAM

NEWS PAP ER AND EAT S O M E FO O D CAP S U LES ( O R WHATEV ER P EO P LE D O IN

THE F U TU RE) B U T SW I TC H TO B O O S T A N D YO U TA K E C O NTROL .

Engage Boost mode

Smart cars: A video showing how driverless lorries "platoon"

The computer controlled lorries will be driven just metres

apart from one another in a "platoon" formation - one of the

much-heralded advantages of driverless technology.

AUTONOMOUS LORRIES NOW ON M6

The Horse is here to stay

but the automobile is only

a novelty, a fad..Source: President of the Michigan Savings

Bank in MotorCity Detroit

Chair John Gillett

Treasurer Paul Edwards

Dep Chair Richard Logue

Secretary (Mike Barker)

Others: Gordon Banks

Clive Blass

Philip Morris

Samson Samberg

Bonnie Overlander

Zoe Samuelson

Jonathan Cumming

Cllr Val Duschinsky(Cons)

Cllr Tom Davey (Cons)

Cllr Kitty Lyons (Lab)

Susan Connolly

Roger Tichbourne

Peter Neal

Christina Wong

Cheryl Farrow

Sian John

Claire-Fox-Baron

Ali Sayed

Oliver Moradov

Suzanne Brett

Sasha Gordon

Gavin Schaller

Mark Bergen

John Murphy

Any other Nominations?

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NEXT MEETING 15TH JUNE 2016

NB. No Step-Free Access

travelling North at

Finchley Central tube

12th April to Late May