School Streets - data collection

What is an Active Street?

Our Active Streets programme is a key strategy commitment of our ActiveWestminster strategy – Activate Your City, Lives and Neighbourhoods. This strategy is in addition to our Open Spaces and Biodiversity strategy and consists of three types of Active Street:

• Play Street
• Street Play sessions
• School Street

The schools in the data collection programme have been identified as potentially requiring a School Street.

Background information

As part of the Council’s measures to support the national lockdown, during 2020 an accelerated roll-out of the Active Streets programme was launched. The aim of the programme is to provide new and additional space for social distancing, walking, cycling and for children and families to get active and stay active.

Several locations have been included in the programme and have been identified for data collection.

Data collection

Data collection will be carried out to monitor levels of air quality. Vehicle and pedestrian monitoring will be in place from February 2022 for 8 months to understand how the traffic and travel patterns may change with the transition out of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions.

The aim is to capture data that accurately reflects the real-time situation at each school, for analysis purposes.

An independent evaluation of the data collection will be undertaken, and results will be presented to the Westminster City Council Cabinet. They will make a decision whether each school would need a School Street and/or if other physical measures would be required at this location.

Schools in the data collection programme

Below you will find a list of schools, and the road that may become a School Street, subject to data collection and the independent evaluation that takes place.

• Christ Church Bentinck Primary School, Cosway Street
• Connaught House School, Stanhope Place
• Essendine Primary School, Essendine Road
• St Barnabas’ C of E Primary School, St Barnabas Street
• St Joseph’s RC Primary School, Randolph Avenue
• St Peter’s C of E Primary School, Chippenham Mews

A decision will be taken whether any of the locations would benefit from a School Street and/or if other physical measures would be required at these locations.