School Streets - Follow up surveys

We are delivering School Streets in Bristol as part of our plans to improve road safety, encourage walking, cycling and scooting to and from school and improve the air quality and environment outside of schools.

Bristol City Council introduced School Streets schemes at three schools in 2022. Chester Park Junior School launched in June 2022 and Minerva Primary Academy and Whitehall Primary School launched in September 2022.

We are now seeking your feedback to help us evaluate the success of the schemes and identify ways in which they can be improved.

Please select the relevant survey at the bottom on this page and respond no later than Friday 16th December 2022. Each survey should not take longer than 10 minutes to complete. You do not have to answer all the questions, but the more you tell us, the more we can take your views into account.

Background

What are School Streets?

Bristol City Council is committed to making Bristol’s streets safer for everyone living and working in and visiting the city. An area of priority are the streets outside our schools – we want to make the journey to school safer and healthier for children and their families, and help to make it a nice environment for everyone living and working there.

One of the ways we are doing this is through the introduction of School Streets, whereby the street or streets immediately outside the school entrance are closed to non-essential vehicles at school opening and closing times.

Only people walking, wheeling, cycling and scooting are permitted access to the School Street zone while the restriction is in place, with exemptions given to emergency vehicles and Blue Badge holders. In some cases, permits will be given to residents and businesses living or working within the zone – this varies from scheme to scheme and is decided on an individual basis.

Aims of the School Street scheme:

The aim of a School Street is to make it easier and safer for children and their parents to walk, wheel, cycle and scoot to school.

Reducing the use of private car journeys to and from school should lead to:

• Less road danger from traffic
• Less anti-social behaviour from inconsiderate parking and dangerous driving
• More children walking, wheeling, cycling and scooting to school
• Reduced congestion and local pollution from idling vehicles

In February 2020 we launched our own pilot scheme at two schools: St Peter’s CofE Primary School and Wansdyke Primary School. In May 2021 we launched School Streets at two additional schools: Redfield Educate Together Primary Academy and Victoria Park Primary School.

Three more schools joined Bristol’s School Streets programme in 2022. Chester Park Junior School launched in June 2022 and Minerva Primary Academy and Whitehall Primary School became our 6th and 7th School Streets, both launching in September 2022.