Background
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 is the roads around our schools.
Aims of the School Street schemes
The aims 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 schemesContinue reading
Background
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 is the roads around our schools.
Aims of the School Street schemes
The aims 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.
The School Street Schemes are being delivered under experimental traffic orders for up to 18 months. There will be a review within this time to see if the schemes will be retained, altered or removed.
Since the initial School Street schemes were implemented, we have now identified further schools to be part of our School Streets schemes.
In the School Street schemes vehicles, such as through traffic, will be prevented to drive through these areas during particular hours. Residents and businesses located within these School Streets areas will still retain access to their properties at all times.
Further information on how a School Street scheme operates can be found in our Frequently Asked Questions.
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.
Who are we engaging with
We want to give residents, as well as people who visit or work in the borough, an opportunity to have their say on our proposals. We are particularly keen to hear the views of local residents, businesses, schools, pupils, and parents or carers of pupils attending the schools, and who have properties within the surrounding areas of the School Streets proposals.
How to have your say
Each School Streets scheme proposal varies in design and we have provided further details on how each scheme will operate within the school emblem links below. To give your views on a particular scheme, please click on the school emblem to read more information on its respective School Street scheme, before completing the online questionnaire included on that page. You can have your say on more than one scheme.
Alternative formats of the engagement:
- if you are unable to complete the questionnaires 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 the Traffic and Development Section, London Borough of Barnet, 7th Floor, Highways, 2 Bristol Avenue, Colindale, London, NW9 4EW, quoting reference number BC/001950-61.
Properties within the affected areas have also been sent a letter inviting them to take part in the engagement. If you live in the area and have not received a letter please email or telephone us using the above contact details.
 Goldbeaters Infant and Junior School and The Annunciation Catholic Infant School |  Childs Hill Primary School
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 Moss Hall School | Blessed Dominic Catholic Primary School and St James' Catholic High School |
 Holly Park Primary School |
St John's C of E Primary School and Friern Barnet School |
What happens after the engagement closes
The findings for the individual schemes will help us determine if they 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. We will also publish the results on the individual School Street pages linked above.
