If you would like to apply for a vehicle exemption, please access the form below. In addition to this you will need to also email your evidence to Healthy.School.Streets@camden.gov.uk

Apply for a vehicle exemption form

We assess streets outside schools, using a range of criteria that have medium to low levels of traffic, which can reasonably be closed to motor traffic during school opening and closing times, without moving too much traffic elsewhere.

The streets are closed by signage and enforced either by bollards raised and lowered by school staff, or by using Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras. 

In addition to providing engineering measures such as a Healthy School Street, we can work with schools to help reduce the number of pupils being driven to school by:

• providing pedestrian and cycle training 
• encouraging walking and cycling
• running events to raise awareness and excitement about walking and cycling 
• helping schools to achieve an accreditation on the Sustainable Travel: Active Responsible Safe (STARS) project - the Transport for London initiative for school travel planning.

Reports relating to out Healthy School Streets schemes are below

Acland Burghley

Gospel Oak initial report

Gospel Oak permanent

New End Feasibility

New End Decision

New End Interim Two Month Monitoiring Report

Neighbourhoods of the Future Healthy Streets Decision Report

Phase 2 Healthy School Streets: Primrose Hill, Brecknock and Mulberry House Schools

Phase 3: Rhyl, Hampstead Parochial, UCS Junior, Netley, Camden School for Girls and Haverstock Schools

Phase 4: St Mary & St Pancras School Church of England Primary School, Argyle Primary School, Christopher Hatton Primary School, Brookfield Primary School, Kentish Town Church of England Primary School, Ecole Jeanine Manuel School

We currently have 7 Healthy School Streets in Camden. As of September 2020, a phased programme of Healthy School Streets will be rolled out as part of the Enabling Safe Travel in Camden scheme.  

Please contact Healthy.School.Streets@camden.gov.uk for more information or to suggest a location.

COVID-19 response

As part of the Transport Strategy Teams response to COVID-19, Camden are rolling out a programme of Healthy School Streets, in line with the 'Safer Travel in Camden' project. These will be implemented from September 2020 under Experimental Traffic Orders for a year. Residents will be notified by letter ahead of the schemes being implemented.

Schools and locations are:

• Argyle Primary School - Bidborough, Hastings and Tonbridge Streets

• Brecknock School - Cliff Villas implemented in September 2020

• Brookfield Primary School - Croftdown Road

• Camden School For Girls - Sandall Road

• Christopher Hatton School - Mount Pleasant

• Ecole Jeanine Manuel - Bedford Square

• Haverstock School - Crogsland Road

• Kentish Town - Islip Street

• Mulberry House School - Minster Road implemented in September 2020

• Neighbourhoods of the Future Healthy School Street Zone (5 schools in the Frognal/Fitzjohns Ward)
   

• Netley Primary School - William Road

• Primrose Hill Primary School - Princess Road implemented in September 2020

• Rhyl School - Marsden Street

• St Mary and St Pancras - Polygon Road

• UCS Junior and Hampstead Parochial Schools - Holly Bush Vale

Schemes implemented pre COVID

The first Healthy School Street we implemented is on Macklin Street at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Holborn and Covent Garden.  

Our monitoring of the scheme shows that there has been minimal impact on residents and businesses on the street, a reduction in the number of parents driving their children to the school, and parents report a significant improvement in how safe they feel the school street is. Air quality on Macklin Street has also improved.

For more information about this scheme, please read the St Joseph's Healthy School Streets report (PDF).

View the Healthy School Street video for St Josephs Healthy School Street:

Acland Burghley School

The second scheme on Burghley Road launched in September 2018. This is the first scheme in Camden which uses Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras for enforcement of the closure. More details of the original trial scheme can be found in the Acland Burghley HSS report (PDF). The scheme has now been made permanent.

Gospel Oak Primary School

The third Healthy School Street on Savernake Road outside Gospel Oak Primary School launched in January 2019. This is also enforced using Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras. For more information please read the Gospel Oak HSS report. Following the consultation in February 2020 this scheme has now been made permanent.

New End

Following the consultation the decision has been made to proceed with the scheme. Details of the scheme are in the Decision Report. It was launched for a trial period of a year in January 2020. The closure is enforced using ANPR cameras. There are exemptions to the restrictions for those with CA-H residents parking permits, or those with off street parking on New End. To apply for an exemption please click on the 'Exemptions form' at the top of this page.

Neighbourhoods of the Future

Technical issues have delayed the implementation of the Healthy School Street zone in the Fitzjohns and Frognal area. It will be operational after October half term 2020.

As part of the above project, we are implementing a Healthy School Streets 'zone' in the chosen project area of Fitzjohns/Frognal. We presented the proposals at a public engagement meeting.

Following the consultation in late September/October 2019, the decision was made to go ahead with the HSS zone for a trial period of a year. Details of the decision are on the Camden website decisions page

Play Streets is a similar scheme involving road closures on residential streets.

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