With 350,000 residents living within 87 square kilometres, Barnet is London’s largest borough by population. At TRANSPORT Smart Class, London & South East England 2020, Philip Hoare, Barnet’s Head of Parking & Infrastructure and Environment Lead for Town Centres Recovery, explored initial COVID-19 responses and initiatives to revive and secure town centres like Barnet’s. Philip highlighted the benefits of suburbs experiencing increased activity, the risks associated with more vehicles and the importance of retaining and growing independent high streets. He also emphasised how infrastructure investments centred around radial links are leading to potential over-capacity in the city centre vs paucity of provision in the suburbs. With additional input from civil enforcement expert, Nigel Coltman, Philip’s keynote also explained why recovery must support a borough’s long term transport and environment strategy and asked what the near future will look like for Parking, addressing shifts in technology requirements, cashless payments becoming the norm, emissions based charging, reallocation of kerbside space, growing and credible levels of EV charging, increased emphasis and public acceptance of CCTV and appropriate uses of ANPR technology.
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