A School Street is an active travel and traffic management scheme that improves road safety and air quality outside schools. The aim is to encourage walking, wheeling, cycling, and scooting to schools by closing specific roads to create safer and healthier car free environments outside schools at the start and end of the school day at key times.
This helps reduce congestion and air pollution in the area by minimising the volume of vehicles entering the road or surrounding roads, making it easier and safer to walk or cycle to school. These measures can also help to address traffic and parking pressures and problems people living close to a school can experience due to school gate parking.
The times will vary at different schools due to different start and finish times. The times for the individual scheme will be included on the signs at the entrance to each zone and will be widely publicised locally.
The scheme will only operate during term time Monday to Friday unless otherwise stated. There will be gateway signs at the entrance and exit of each zone detailing the times that the restriction is in force, and violation of these restrictions will be an offense.
The schemes are installed, subject to the support of residents, using an Experimental Traffic Regulation Order ETRO , which can stay in place for a maximum of 18 months. During this time, we will monitor and assess the impact of these changes and any objections to decide whether the scheme should be permanent. If the scheme is successful and supported by local people, it could become a permanent scheme. Feedback from residents and communities has highlighted that these traditional measures are not always effective and we are looking at new ways of addressing the issues.
