School Streets: St John's C of E Primary School and Friern Barnet School

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 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 161 responses to this engagement. 31.75% of respondents supported the scheme. 65% of respondents opposed the scheme. 3.17% of respondents neither supported nor opposed the scheme.

15% of respondents thought the scheme would improve safety. 7% of respondents thought the scheme would improve air quality. 9% of respondents thought the scheme would reduce traffic.

38% of respondents were concerned it would push traffic elsewhere. 15% of respondents expressed concern that the scheme would impact working parents’ ability to get to work after dropping their children at school. 5% 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. 6 % of respondents were concerned the scheme would increase traffic and consequently harm the children who would walk to school.

10% of respondents did not give reasons for their opinions.

Youth survey responses

We received 38 responses to this engagement. 46% of respondents were supportive of the scheme. 48.65% were opposed to the scheme. 5.41% of respondents neither supported nor opposed the scheme.

21% of respondents thought the scheme would improve safety. 13% of respondents thought the scheme would improve air quality. 10.5% of respondents thought the scheme would reduce traffic.

5% of respondents expressed concern that the scheme would impact working parents’ ability to get to work after dropping their children at school. 5% of respondents thought the scheme would push traffic elsewhere. 7.8% of respondents did not think the scheme would produce any benefit at all.

We did

We have considered the feedback and will be proceeding with the School Street scheme on Bethune Avenue and Hemington Avenue.