Have your say on Healthy School Streets

We would like to hear your views on plans to trial new Healthy School Streets in the borough.

What are Healthy School Streets?

Healthy School Streets help pupils to have safer, healthier journeys to and from school, by closing the surrounding roads to cars and other motor traffic during school drop-off and pick-up times. This will not affect residents access – if you live in those roads, you will be able to apply for a permit.

This encourages parents and pupils to leave the car at home for the school run and instead choose more sustainable and active means of travel to school, such as walking, cycling, or scooting.

Healthy School Streets benefit local residents by decreasing non-residential motor traffic in their neighbourhood – reducing congestion, noise, and air pollution.

In Croydon there are already 24 successful Healthy School Streets.

Benefits of Healthy School Streets:

• Safer school journeys for pupils
• Make it easier to choose sustainable travel like walking and cycling
• Cleaner and less polluted streets
• Improve our air quality
• Help to tackle the climate crisis and achieve a carbon-neutral Croydon by 2030
• Encourage active travel, helping to promote healthy lifestyle

How do I get involved?

The informal public consultations will run for 30 days starting on Friday 1 July and expiring at 23:59 on Thursday 30 July.

You can complete the survey for the Healthy School Street scheme you are most affected by below. For more information on each scheme please see the leaflets available on the right of this page.

If you require this information in another format contact us on 020 8726 6000, 9am- 4pm Monday – Friday, or email: healthyschoolstreets@croydon.gov.uk

Note: when contacting us via email please ensure you quote the relevant scheme reference:

• The Crescent and Saracen Close: CRESCENTSS/2022
• Dering Place and Barham Road: DERINGSS/2022
• Stroud Green Way and Swinburne Crescent: STROUDSS/2022
• Ingram and Springfield Road: INGRAMSS/2022
• Gonville Road: GONVILLESS/2022
• Cumberlow Avenue: CUMBERLOWSS/2022
• Birchanger, Crowther and Gresham Road: BIRCHANGERSS/2022
• Mosslea Road and New Barn Lane: MOSSLEASS/2022
• Stanhope Road and The Avenue: STANHOPESS/2022
• Dunley Drive and Walker Close: DUNLEYSS/2022
• Southbridge Place: SOUTHBRIDGESS/2022