The following vehicles are eligible for an exemption from our Healthy School Streets schemes:

• Vehicles registered to properties and businesses on the section of the street within the timed restriction area
• Any vehicle being used for ambulance, fire brigade or policing purposes
• Refuse collection vehicles
• Blue Disabled Badge holders
• Vehicles belonging to parents or carers of pupils of the school within the scheme that have a disability that prevents them from walking, cycling, or scooting to school

To register your vehicle for an exemption please complete the form that can be accessed from the link below and then email us with supporting evidence to healthy.school.streets@camden.gov.uk.

For resident exemptions, we require proof of address in the form of a photo or scan of a recent utility bill, bank statement or Council Tax statement.  

For Blue Badge exemptions, we require a photo or scan of the Blue Badge.

Please note that pure electric vehicle (the V5 must state the fuel type as 'electricity') exemptions are only in place for the Neighbourhoods of the Future scheme and these do not need to be registered with us for an exemption.

It may take up to five working days to process your application and we will email you with confirmation once this has been done.

Please note that we will be unable to process your application until you have emailed us with the relevant supporting evidence.

Apply for an exemption

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.

As part of our ‘Safer Travel in Camden’ programme we have introduced a number of Healthy School Street schemes across the borough. The schemes are introduced as an 18 month trial under an Experimental Traffic Order. We now have a number of schemes which have been made permanent, along with some that are still in their trial phase. Full public consultations are held at approximately the 12 month point of the trial and help to inform whether the schemes should be made permanent, along with analysis of monitoring data.

Permanent Healthy School Street Schemes

• Macklin Street – St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School
• Burghley Road – Acland Burghley School
• Savernake Road – Gospel Oak Primary School
• New End – New End Primary School and Heathside Prep School
• Neighbourhoods of the Future Healthy School Street Zone (Nutley Terrace, Maresfield Gardens, Netherhall Gardens, Netherhall Way, Southern Frognal) - South Hampstead (High and Junior) School, North Bridge House Pre-Prep, Southbank International, Holy Trinity Primary
• Cliff Villas – Brecknock Primary School
• Minster Road – Mulberry House School
• Princess Road – Primrose Hill Primary School
• William Road – Netley Primary School
• Sandall Road – Camden School for Girls
• Crogsland Road – Haverstock School
• Marsden Street – Rhyl Primary School
• Holly Bush Vale – UCS Junior and Hampstead Parochial School

Trial Healthy School Street Schemes

• Islip Street – Kentish Town Primary School
• Polygon Road – St Mary and St Pancras Primary School
• Bedford Square – Ecole Jeannine Manuel
• Croftdown Road – Brookfield Primary School
• Mount Pleasant and Laystall Street – Christopher Hatton School
• Bidborough, Hastings and Tonbridge Street – Argyle Primary
• Holmes Road – St Patricks Primary School
• Elsworthy Road – St Paul’s Primary School (installation date TBC)

Please contact us if you would like to know the operational dates of any of the schemes for the current academic year.