Kerbside Strategy
The Council’s new Kerbside and Parking strategies form part of the council’s ambitious plans for a healthier, greener and safer Hounslow. The strategies update how Hounslow’s parking and kerbside spaces are used, ensuring streets and public areas are designed for all ages, abilities and incomes, while building resilience to poor air quality and climate change.
This page focuses on the Council’s Kerbside strategy.
What’s the kerbside?
The kerbside is the space that sits on the road next to the pavement. You might currently find cars, trees, cycle parking, or taxi bays here. Well-designed streets and spaces benefit everyone, not just a few. We are considering proposals for other kerbside uses such as more trees, plants, car clubs, seating and outdoor eating areas and deliveries.
What does our Kerbside Strategy propose?
Through our Kerbside Strategy, we are reimaging the borough’s streets to benefit residents, businesses and visitors.
This includes how to better balance different uses for the kerbside to create safe, healthy and liveable streets for people of all ages and abilities.
Almost a third of residents don’t own a private vehicle and 60 per cent of trips in the borough are made by walking, cycling and public transport. That’s why we must make our kerbside spaces for everyone.
The Kerbside Strategy has five objectives:
- More sustainable mobility - we want to increase residents’ transport options, making it easier to walk, wheel, cycle and take advantage of shared vehicle schemes.
- Improved Health and Wellbeing - We want to make our streets places to meet friends, socialise and increase opportunities for physical activity such as walking and cycling whilst helping to reduce air pollution at the same time.
- Building resilience and adaptability - our plan will help us to make our streets more resilient to extreme weather events such as heatwaves and flooding as well as supporting and introducing more plantlife and wildlife.
- Strengthening communities through better places - by making our streets more attractive and safer, we can strengthen communities and encourage people to meet, play and grow together.
- Improved accessibility and inclusion - We are designing our streets for everyone, with more transport options, and safe and accessible kerbside vehicle parking.
What are some of the changes to the kerbside in the plan?
The Kerbside Strategy introduces a range of new measures to help us achieve the objectives listed above.
Some of the initiatives we are seeking to introduce include:
- More trees and street planting on our streets
- Expanding car clubs which offer vehicle access to residents and businesses without the need to own a car.
- Continuing the dockless e-bike hire scheme and expanding e-cargo bike provision.
- Increasing on-street cycle parking at home and in key destinations.
What happens next?
Now that the Kerbside Strategy has been adopted by the Council, we will be looking to roll out the various elements of the plan over the years ahead.
We will be keeping our residents and other stakeholders informed of our progress every step of the way.
For regular updates on the progress of the Kerbside Strategy, keep coming back to the Council’s website and social media channels (X, Facebook, LinkedIn)
For more information about the Kerbside Strategy, read the Cabinet Report and the full policy document.
