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Lewisham Council: List of Planned School Streets

ForestHull

22 Nov '20

The agenda for the forthcoming Overview and Scrutiny Business Panel
Tuesday, 24th November, 2020 19:05 details the school streets that have been implemented and are planned in the borough. From January 2021, this includes camera enforcement for school streets at local primaries such as Elliot Bank, Haseltine, Rathfern and Kilmorie.

The full lists are given in item 4 on the agenda (pdf) - reproduced here with some reformatting:

4.29 Schemes have been put in place at the following school streets, with some schools using temporary barriers in the short term whilst delivery of the equipment required to
deliver the full scheme is awaited. This is due to longer than anticipated lead times on
the equipment due to high demand from other local authorities:

Adamsrill Primary School

All Saints CE School

Ashmead Primary School

Conisborough College

Deptford Green School

John Ball School

Kelvin Grove Primary School

Prendergast Ladywell School

Sir Francis Drake School

Tidemill Academy School

4.30 At the time of writing this report further school streets are due to be implemented at the
following locations in the coming weeks:

Athelney

St William of York

St John the Baptist

Lucas Vale

Holbeach

Coopers Lane

4.31 The remaining schools will have school streets implemented in January 2021 upon
receipt of the necessary camera enforcement equipment:

Gordonbrock

Elliot Bank

Rushey Green

Brindishe Green

Haseltine

Rathfern

Kilmorie

Myatt Garden

Holy Cross

Good Shepherd.

Unfortunately due to the national shortage of camera equipment these delivery timescales are longer than initially anticipated.

ForestHull

30 Nov '20

News Shopper has a bit of coverage on the school Street expansion plans:

As well as some stats on the lowered levels of pollution, there is a quote from Lewisham Councillor Sophie McGeevor, Cabinet Member for Transport and Environment, and also the following interesting insight:

Viv Nicolls, Head Teacher at Prendergast Ladywell, said: “Since starting the School Street project in September, Ewhurst Road has become a cleaner and kinder place to be at pick-up and drop-off times.
…
“As Head of School, I monitor the School Street each day equipped with my ‘walkie talkie’ and ‘hi-vis jacket’.

“By doing this, our staff have been able to connect much more with our local community - it is great to say hello to not just our own families but local residents too.

“We are expecting cameras to monitor the School Street from January rather than staff, however we fully intend to continue to be a presence at the beginning and end of the day to maintain the positive relationships that we have formed with local residents.

“Due to the success of the Ewhurst Road project, our next priority will be to make access to our other school entrance in Sinclair Place a School Street.”

I had feared that using school staff to enforce school streets could put them in conflict with some parents and residents, so it is good to hear that Viv Nicolls has been able to use the opportunity to connect with the community, and plans to continue to do so.

ForestHull

2 Feb '21

Minor update from Lewisham on the school Street programme:

We are continuing our work to develop the current programme of sites with a view to having them ready when schools reopen fully. However, if the Government decides to delay re-opening until after Easter, we will consider on a case by case basis whether to start school streets earlier this would be for the benefit of pupils who are currently still attending. The schools included in the programme include:

All Saints

Tidemill

Prendergast Ladywell

Adamsrill

Conisborough College

Deptford Green

Kelvin Grove

John Ball

Coopers Lane

Eliot Bank

Gordonbrock

Holbeach

Rushey Green

Holy Cross

Brindishe Green

Ashmead

Sir Francis Drake – Deptford Liveable Neighbourhood

Haseltine

Myatt Garden

Rathfern

Athelney

Lucas Vale

St John the Baptist

St William of York

Kilmorie

As you will understand our ambitious programme means that we working with different contractors and co-ordinating with multiple different suppliers. Many of our partners are experiencing difficulties in planning workloads with staff being off sick with COVID-19 and recent adverse weather conditions. Subsequently there may be unforeseen delays, making it difficult at this stage to give definitive timescales for when work will happen at each site.

Our intention is for the majority of the physical works to be complete by the end of February half term, aside from of a handful of schools where the works are more complex with a longer lead time. As usual we will keep residents and Commonplace updated as timescales become clearer.

Installing enforcement cameras

For those school street schemes that will have cameras to promote safety and adherence, we need to implement a period of testing on site before they become fully operational. We will notify residents in the vicinity of the closure before this happens. Those with properties within the schemes will receive a letter explaining clearly how to register for exemptions in advance.

We will be installing street signs which will also show when the school streets in operation. These signs will only operate during term times and be covered over using special ‘flaps’ during school holidays.

ForestHull

8 Apr '21

Looks like the Kilmorie and Elsinore Road school streets have been activated: