News on People Friendly Streets Islington

If you live in or travel through Highbury please be aware that as part of our people-friendly streets programme, enforcement at ten new traffic filters (eight of which are camera enforced), will commence in the Highbury area on Monday 11 January.  

We are introducing people-friendly streets in Highbury to reduce through traffic and make the area safer, healthier and fairer for everyone. We want to make our streets friendly for all, especially children, young people and for people who find it difficult to get around. 

With the main works now completed, we will unveil the currently covered signage and start camera enforcement at the traffic filter locations specified below. Any motor vehicle (except for emergency services) travelling through the camera-enforced traffic filters will receive a Penalty Charge Notice.  

Traffic filter locations:  

In Highbury West, six new camera-enforced traffic filters will become active. These are located on Aubert Park, Benwell Road, Gillespie Road, Highbury Hill, Monsell Road and St. Thomas’s Road.   Two further new filters, physically e nforced by bollards, will be installed at Avenell Road and Plimsoll Road.  

In Highbury Fields, two camera-enforced traffic filters will be installed on Highbury Place: one located south of the junction with Calabria Road and the other at the junction with Highbury Corner. 

For detailed maps of both schemes, showing the locations of traffic filters and vehicle access routes, please follow the corresponding links below: 

Highbury West

Highbury Fields

Every street in Highbury West and Highbury Fields will remain open to motor vehicles. If you have a car you will still be able to drive to your home, as will visitors, but you may need to take a different route.

Please note that due to essential gas repair works on Highbury Grove, access to the junction between Leigh Road and Highbury Grove will be temporarily blocked for approximately two weeks. During the period of works a signed temporary diversion route will be in place allowing drivers to access Highbury Grove from Highbury Hill via travelling from Leigh Road onto Roseleigh Avenue, continuing along Hamilton Park and exiting onto Highbury Grove. This route will also be accessible travelling in the opposite direction from Highbury Grove. 

After camera enforcement begins on 11 January following the unveiling of the signage, we anticipate that it may take a little while for drivers to get used to the new routes, but experience in other people-friendly streets neighbourhoods has shown that after a few weeks this will settle down and the residents of Highbury will be able to enjoy the benefits of people-friendly streets, which are safer, healthier, fairer and quieter for local residents and all road users.

Find out more about the people-friendly streets programme and read answers to frequently asked questions here:  https://www.islington.gov.uk/roads/people-friendly-streets