School Streets - Blessed Dominic Catholic Primary School and St James' Catholic High School

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This consultation has now closed.

Background

As explained on our School Streets Engagement page, 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 is 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

Background

As explained on our School Streets Engagement page, 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 is 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. 


School Street scheme proposals for Blessed Dominic Catholic Primary School and St. James’ Catholic High School

This year Blessed Dominic Catholic Primary School and St. James’ Catholic High School were identified as a school that would benefit from being included as one of the seven experimental School Street schemes. Due to the proximity of these schools to one another they can be served by the same School Street scheme.

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. 

We are currently establishing a School Streets policy which may have changes and will go to Cabinet in July 2023. This Policy will give more information on how a school street will work and exemptions.  

Key elements of the School Street scheme proposals for Blessed Dominic Catholic Primary School and St. James’ Catholic High School: 

  • The proposals would see the following sections closed to general traffic during school drop off and pick up times, 8.15-9.15am and 2.45-3.45pm, Monday to Friday. 

    • The Great Strand (between Lower Strand and Everglade Strand)

  • 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. 

  • Residents, businesses located within the School Street, blue badge holders, and emergency vehicles are amongst those that will be allowed vehicular access to the School Street during the prescribed times. For a a full list, read our School Street FAQs below.

We are also considering the following improvements along Great Strand:

  • Improved footways and tactiles by the Little Strand and Runway Close.

  • The temporary water-filled barriers will be removed between the Little Strand and Broadhead Strand.

  • Footway widening is being considered on eastern side of Great Strand between Halifax Building to Everglade Strand. This means removal of some previous parking spaces (which are currently water filled barriers) being converted to Double Yellow Line “No waiting at any time” due to footway widening.

  • 2 resident permit holder only spaces by Everglade Strand are being proposed to be converted into footway.

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.

If you are under the age 16 and wish to have your say, you can complete our Young Persons questionnaire.

Before completing the Young Persons questionnaire ensure you get permission from your school, parent, carer.


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 traffic.consultations@barnet.gov.uk or telephone the Traffic and Development Section on 020 8359 3555. 

Any paper copies should be sent to Traffic and Development, London Borough of Barnet, 7th Floor, Highways, 2 Bristol Avenue, Colindale, London, NW9 4EW, quoting reference number HAS002-03.

Properties within the affected area have been sent a letter inviting them to complete a questionnaire. If you live in the area and have not received a letter, please email us or write to us, using the contact details above. 

What happens after the engagement 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.  


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

This consultation has now closed.

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    We asked

    We asked for your views on the implementation of a controlled pedestrian and cycling zone during school pick up and drop off hours, or ‘School Street’, on Great Strand (between Lower Strand and Everglade Strand). The proposed times are 8.15-9.15am and 2.45-3.45pm, Monday to Friday, term time only.


    You said

    We received 77 responses to this engagement. 19.48% of respondents supported the scheme. 79.22% of respondents opposed the scheme. 1.3% of respondents neither supported nor opposed the scheme.

    10% of respondents thought the scheme would improve safety. 7.7% of respondents thought the scheme would reduce traffic. 4% of respondents thought the scheme would encourage people to walk, bike or scoot to school.

    27% of respondents were concerned that the School Street would affect access to services on the road such as churches, nurseries, and businesses. 12% of respondents expressed concern that the scheme would impact working parents’ ability to get to work after dropping their children at school. 20% of respondents expressed concern that it would affect access to the road for people who needed it, like residents, carers, teachers, taxi/trade/delivery vehicles, friends and family.

    8% of respondents did not give reasons for their opinions.


    We did

    We have considered the feedback and will be proceeding with the School Street scheme, alongside measures to mitigate the highlighted concerns.

    We asked

    We asked for your views on making the pavement wider on Great Strand.


    You said

    We received 59 responses to this engagement.

    8% of respondents thought the footway widening would improve safety. 8% of respondents thought the footway widening would reduce traffic. 5% of respondents thought the footway widening would encourage people to walk, bike or scoot to school.

    24% of respondents were concerned about the reduction in parking as a result of the footway widening. 7% of respondents were concerned about the impact the footway widening would have on driving on the Great Strand. 5% thought there would be no improvement from the measures.

    24% of respondents did not give reasons for their opinions.


    We did

    We have considered the feedback and will not be proceeding with the footway widening in Great Strand.