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Lambeth Council has been using your money to distribute an expensive, glossy leaflet about their proposed new road across the Park.   It has only been delivered near Herne Hill - other residents near the park and regular park users are not being told about the new road.

The leaflet says the plan has all-party support ("elected Councillors from all political parties are in favour of the plan") but at the Lambeth Council meeting in July, Liberal Democrat and Conservative Councillors unanimously voted for a halt to the proposals and for reconsideration of the scheme. (The motion was voted down.)   Click here to see the motion and the vote.

The Council says the traffic at the junction is so bad they need 1,000sq metres of parkland. They have paid (with your money) for an 'artist's impression' of the new road.   So where's all the traffic?   Studies show that extra road space brings extra traffic - in reality the empty slip road (drawn to look as narrow as possible) will be chock-a-block full of cars and lorries.   The mature trees look lovely - but the great majority of them simply don't exist.