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Childs Hill Primary School Street

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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. We do this through School Streets (pedestrian and cycle only zones)

School Streets are timed road restrictions around schools with the aim of creating a safer environment for pupils to walk and cycle to school and to deal with the high traffic volumes

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. We do this through School Streets (pedestrian and cycle only zones)

School Streets are timed road restrictions around schools with the aim of creating 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.

In summer 2023 we asked for your views on a proposal to introduce a temporary School Street around Childs Hill School. We considered all the feedback and decided to proceed with the School Street scheme. The scheme came into effect in April 2024.

Now that the Childs Hill Primary School Street is live, we are keen to hear your thoughts and experiences on the School Street.

School Streets are delivered under 18-month Experimental Traffic Orders (ETOs). During this period we will decide to either:

1. Make the scheme permanent with no changes

2. Make changes (to time or location), or

3. Remove the scheme.

This decision is made with your feedback paired alongside additional traffic, speed and parking surveys.


How to have your say

We are keen to hear your views on this School Street scheme. Please take the time to give us your views by completing the online questionnaire below.


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.

Any paper copies should be sent to the Traffic and Development Section, London Borough of Barnet, 3rd Floor, Highways, 2 Bristol Avenue, Colindale, London, NW9 4EW, quoting reference number HAS002-01.


What happens after the consultation closes?

Before the School Streets temporary traffic order finishes after 18-months, a decision will be made as to:

1. Make the scheme permanent with no changes

2. Make changes (to time or location), or

3. Remove the scheme.

Once we have made a decision, we will write to local residents, business and schools in the affected areas to advise them of the decision. We will also publish the outcome on this page.

If you wish to have your say on another School Street scheme, please return to the main engagement page.

This engagement has now closed.

  • We asked, you said, we did

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    We asked

    We asked for your views on the live ‘School Street’ which is a controlled pedestrian and cycling zone during school pick up and drop off hours on the following roads:

    • Dersingham Road between Cricklewood Lane and Somerton Road

    • Whole of Caddington Road

    The proposed times are 8.15-9.15am and 3.00-4.00pm Monday to Friday, term time only.

    You said

    We received 130 responses to this engagement. This included 51 pupil / parent responses, 47 through Engage Barnet responses and 32 responses via email:

    • 45.38% of respondents supported the measures.

    • 34.62% of respondents opposed the measures.

    • 10% of respondents neither support nor opposed.

    • 10% of respondents was general questions and enquiries.

    Only adult responses were analysed in terms of themes. This showed:

    • 30% of respondents stated it impacted parking in the surrounding area.

    • 19% of respondents stated it pushes congestion and traffic onto neighbouring roads.

    • 22% of respondents stated it made the area much quieter and safer.

    We did

    Based on the feedback received and having reviewed the traffic counts and parking stress surveys, officers have decided to make the School Street permanent. We will also look to make pre-warning signage larger and consider further parking restrictions at key junctions in the area.