Question No: 2024/4306
Question (Thomas Turrell AM): 19th December 2024
Funding for plans like the Shortlands Friendly Village scheme were lost due to funding challenges from the pandemic. Are you looking to restart funding for these schemes?
Answer: (Sadiq Khan): 23rd December 2024
The Liveable Neighbourhoods Programme was introduced in 2019 to provide boroughs with the opportunity to bid for funding for long-term schemes that encourage walking, cycling and public transport use.
This programme was paused during the pandemic due to TfL's constrained financial position, but TfL continues to engage with boroughs that have paused these projects.
Some boroughs have funded these projects themselves and others have now restarted projects using TfL Local Implementation Plan (LIP) funding.
Elements of Bromley’s Shortlands Friendly Village scheme, including a new pedestrian footpath leading to Valley School, were delivered using emergency funding during the pandemic under TfL’s Streetspace for London Programme in 2021.
In November this year, boroughs submitted three-year delivery plans for LIP funding to TfL. Bromley’s plans include a potential expansion of a Controlled Parking Zone in the Shortlands area. This proposal is currently being assessed alongside the rest of their submission for delivery commencing in 2025/26. TfL hopes to announce the borough allocations for LIP funding by March 2025.
