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St Johns C of E Primary School and Friern Barnet 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 St Johns C of E Primary School and Friern Barnet 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 St Johns C. of E Primary School and Friern Barnet 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 Highways Correspondence, 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:

    • Bethune Avenue/Crescent Road (between The Ridgeway and The Crescent)
    • Hemington Avenue.

    The proposed times are 8.00-9.00am and 2.45-3.45pm, Monday to Friday, term time only.

    You said

    We received 77 responses to this engagement. This included 28 pupil responses, 31 through Engage Barnet responses and 18 responses via email:

    • 24.68% of respondents were supportive of the measures
    • 57.14% of respondents were opposed to the measures
    • 18.18% of respondents neither support nor opposed.

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

    • 61.3% of respondents were just highlighting their opposition to the scheme.
    • 16.1% of respondents were happy with the school street.
    • 6.5% of respondents stated it pushes congestion and traffic onto neighbouring roads.
    • 6.5% stated they wanted the School Street extending.
    • 3.2% of respondents stated it impacted parking in the surrounding area.

    We did

    Based on results from the engagement and reviewing traffic counts and parking stress Officers have decided to retain the School Street and make it permanent.

    Traffic count data on Bethune Avenue/Crescent Road at pre and post School Street showed that traffic volumes at morning and evening restrictions reduced by about 75% and 80% respectively. Traffic on Ridgeway reduced by 70% both westbound and eastbound during the school street operation time. This shows that the scheme has reduced rat running along neighbouring roads.

    Parking Survey undertaken before and after the installation of School Street on Hemington Avenue and Bethune Avenue / Crescent Road showed that both roads had about 15 - 20% reduction of cars parked during the School Street operation time (8-9am and 2.45– 3.45pm).

    Parking has increased on Glenthorne Road (by 10-15%), The Ridgeway (by 20%) and The Crescent (between 65-310%) however there are still parking space available on each of these roads during School Street operation times.