School Travel Plans
An introduction to school travel plans
The Department for Education encourage all schools to develop a school travel plan.
Harrow's sustainable School Travel Plan and Home to School Transport Strategy was last updated in July 2010 and will be updated again this summer.
A summary of this plan is also provided.
The increase in school run traffic, impacts on the risk of accidents to children, contributes to traffic congestion and air pollution and is also detrimental to children's health as well as to the local environment.
For a school travel plan to be successful, all parties involved in the running of the school need to have ownership of the plan, including governors, teachers, parents and pupils. This means that all parties need to be involved in the formulation and progression of the travel plan. It is essential for a proactive individual to be responsible to for updating the plan and to take advantage of the initiatives (provide a link to the initiatives page), funding and resources available free of charge from L.B Harrow and Transport for London (TfL)
School travel plans enable individual schools to promote walking and cycling and to put forward ideas and solutions to reduce car use. Barriers to walking and cycling are identified and a package of measures are created to mitigate them. The plans are an opportunity for the council and the school community to work together to address school travel related issues.
School travel plans are an essential part of the council's strategy to tackle issues related to school transport. School travel plans promote initiatives to increase the number of school children who walk, cycle or use public transport and will also frequently involve an element of engineering works required to improve the safety of the street environment for the school children.
If you want to encourage your school to develop a school travel plan, or your school needs help in developing their school travel plan, the council's transport planning team can help.
To help keep people up to date with the latest developments and opportunities regarding school travel plans, we send out a newsletter to schools that are developing or implementing their school travel plan approximately twice a year.
School Travel Plan newsletters
School Travel advisor
020 8424 1640
