Woodridge Primary School Street
Overview
We want our streets to be safe spaces for you to walk and cycle, for children to get to and from school safely and healthily, for businesses to be able to prosper, and for you to be breathing cleaner air. A priority area for making our streets safer and cleaner are the roads around our schools.
The aim of the schemes are to create a safer environment for pupils to walk and cycle to school and to deal with the high traffic volumes around schools at certain times of the day. The schemes also help to prevent potential conflicts between vehicles and pedestrians, crowding from pupils and parents outside school gates, as well as preventing the potential of young children being forced onto the roads with traffic.
You can find out more information by visiting our School Streets Engagement Hub.
School Street scheme proposals for Woodridge Primary School
This year, Woodridge Primary School was identified as a school that would benefit from being included as one of the seven experimental School Street schemes. We are now engaging on the scheme to find out how residents, and other key stakeholders, would feel about implementing a temporary school street in this area.
The School Street Schemes are looking to be delivered under experimental traffic orders for up to 18 months. During this time there will be an opportunity to feedback comments regarding the experimental order. There will be a review within the 18 months to see if the schemes will be retained, altered or removed.
Key elements of the School Street scheme proposals Woodridge Primary School:
the proposals would see Southover (from the junction with Arlington) closed to general traffic during school drop off and pick up times, 8.15-9.15am and 2.45-3.45pm, Monday to Friday, term time only.
during these hours this section of road will become a Pedestrian and Cycle Zone. The timed closure will be enforced with the use of ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras.
only residents, local businesses located within the School Street, blue badge holders requiring access within the School Street, permanent school staff, Hackney Carriages and emergency vehicles will be allowed vehicular access on the School Street during the prescribed times.
We have provided more information below:
How to have your say
We are keen to hear your views on this School Street scheme proposal. Please take the time to review the plan and then give us your views by completing the online questionnaire.
Alternative formats of the engagement
If you are unable to complete the questionnaire online and would like to request a paper copy or another format of the questionnaire, please email highwayscorrespondence@barnet.gov.uk or telephone the Traffic and Development Section on 020 8359 3555, quoting reference number HAS002-15.
Any paper copies should be sent to the School Streets Team, Highways, London Borough of Barnet, 3rd Floor, 2 Bristol Avenue, Colindale, London, NW9 4EW, quoting the above reference number.
We have written to properties within the affected area inviting them to complete a questionnaire. You can view the letter sent out here.
What happens after the consultation closes?
The findings for the scheme will help us determine if the scheme should be implemented, and if so what actions need to be taken to address any areas of concern. Once a decision has been made, we will write to local residents, business and schools in the affected areas to advise of them of the implementation of the School Street under an experimental order.
School Streets Engagement Hub
