A2 Blackheath Hill junction with Greenwich South Street pedestrian safety improvements

Update September 2024

Further to our public consultation and decision to proceed with our proposals for the junction of Blackheath Hill, Greenwich South Street and Lewisham Road, we had intended to complete work onsite during the summer of 2024. Due to administrative issues this has been delayed.  We now aim to complete the work on site by Spring 2025.

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Update 25 January 2024

We are now able to publish our report on the outcomes of our public consultation on proposals to make pedestrian safety improvements at the junction of Blackheath Hill, Greenwich South Street and Lewisham Road. The proposals include new light controlled pedestrian crossings on the A2 Blackheath Hill on the eastern arm of the junction, outside the George and Dragon pub, and across the ‘slip road’ used by traffic turning left from Greenwich South Street onto Blackheath Hill. In order for the junction to accommodate the new crossings and operate efficiently, we will need to prevent traffic from turning right from Lewisham Road onto Blackheath Hill.

We received 357 responses to the consultation and would like to thank everyone who took part. Our consultation report includes our responses to the issues raised by those who responded.

Having considered all the responses carefully, we have decided to proceed with our proposals as set out in the consultation. We hope to deliver the work on site during the summer of 2024.

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This consultation has now closed. Thank you to everyone who responded. We are now considering the feedback we received and aim to publish our consultation report and next steps by the end of this year. 

We are proposing measures to improve road safety at the junction of Greenwich South Street, the A2 Blackheath Hill and Lewisham Road and would like to hear your views.

What are we proposing?

Information to help you respond

Tell us your views

What are we proposing?

The junction currently does not have any formal pedestrian crossing facilities, and so we have developed a new proposal to address this and make crossing the A2 Blackheath Hill safer and more comfortable for pedestrians.

We propose the installation of a ‘straight across’ light controlled pedestrian crossing across Blackheath Hill (outside the George and Dragon pub), as well as across the ‘slip road’ used by traffic turning left onto Blackheath Hill from Greenwich South Street.

In order to ensure that these new measures would not cause delays to the road network, including to bus journeys, we would need to ban traffic from turning right onto the A2 Blackheath Hill from Lewisham Road.

The map below shows the proposals for this junction.

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Information to help you respond

We would like to know what you think about our proposals. These documents are intended to help you respond:

• A map of our proposals
• CGI Visualisations showing what the changes would look like on the street
• Equalities Impact Assessment
• Frequently Asked Questions
• An Easy Read version of our proposals and survey
• A British Sign Language video version explaining the proposals and survey
• A downloadable copy of our consultation survey in case you would prefer to respond offline
• Click on the ‘translate’ button below to translate this website into a number of languages
• A Healthy Streets check has been completed for the proposals and is available on request

Connecting with London's deaf community on our consultations 

To enhance how we engage and consult with London's deaf community we are trialling a British Sign Language (BSL) consultation conversation service. This service will allow us to have a two-way BSL translated discussion on any aspect of this consultation with a BSL speaker.

To request a BSL consultation conversation please contact us at haveyoursay@tfl.gov.uk and we will be in contact to arrange this at a convenient time.

Following this trial, we will evaluate the service to determine if this is something we are able to offer on other consultations in the future.

Drop-in events

We are holding an in-person event where you can hear more about the proposals.

• Thursday 5 October from 15:00 to 19:00 – West Greenwich Library, Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN (Click here for the map).

Please come along and let us know your views. If you are unable to make this date and time and would like to discuss the proposals further with us, please get in touch and we can respond to your queries directly.