School Street Consultations

As part of our commitment to make our streets cleaner, greener and healthier, we proposed a traffic-filtered School Street and environmental improvements at Sacred Heart Primary School on Georges Road.

Consultation results report - July 2023

We held a public consultation from 3 January to 31 January 2023. Read the Consultation Results Report for Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Street. For those who need a fully accessible version, you can view a separate accessible table that replaces the one on pages 31 to 35 in the main document.

Improvements for Sacred Heart School Street

In autumn 2023 we:

• put artwork on the road near the school to make drivers aware of the school and encourage them to slow down
• installed cycle parking stands to make it easier for families to cycle or scoot to school
• planted new greenery including trees and low-level planting beds to create a nicer environment and provide a separation between the road and pavement
• added seating to provide space for parents and families to sit, rest and chat
• resurfaced the pavement in places where it is damaged, making it safer for people to walk and use buggies and wheelchairs
• widened the pavement outside the school entrance, moving traffic and pollution away from the school gate and improving air quality
• built an extended pavement at the junction of Geary Street with Georges Road to encourage more walking over vehicles

Improving road safety

To help improve road safety, we introduced a traffic filter and cameras at the junction of Georges Road with Eden Grove to reduce cut-through traffic and encourage safe walking and cycling to school.

• Traffic filters stop motor vehicles passing through all day, every day and enforcement began in September 2023.
• You can still drive to all addresses in the filter area.
• You can still drive to all addresses on Georges Road and Eden Grove from Holloway Road.
• You can drive to all addresses on Lough Road and can drive to Piper Close and Watkinson Road from Lough Road.
• You can't drive from Georges Road to MacKenzie Road from Lough Road or from Lough Road into Eden Grove.
• We have not made changes to traffic direction - all streets that used to be one-way are still one-way and all two-way streets are the same too.
• Registered Blue Badge holders living north of Mackenzie Road, to Caledonian Road to the west and Holloway Road to the east, and Hornsey Street to the north can drive through filters without doing anything.
• Cycles, emergency services and exempt vehicles can pass through the filter.
• All other vehicles driving through the filter will be caught on camera and given a penalty charge notice of £65. 

Implementation by Experimental Traffic Order (ETO)

The traffic filter was introduced as an 18-month trial by an ETO. When the ETO came into force, there was a six-month objection period. You must make any formal objection to the ETO in writing and say why you are making it. You could make an objection between 7 July 2023 and 6 January 2024 by email to or by post to Environment, 1 Cottage Road, London, N7 8TP. Formal objections can become public documents and could be published.

In November 2021, as part of our commitment to make our streets cleaner, greener and healthier, we introduced a trial School Street outside St Luke’s Primary School.

The St Luke’s School Street is one of 35 School Streets in Islington, bringing cleaner air and a more pleasant environment to 36 schools. St Luke's School Street does this by stopping cars from driving on Radnor Street, Lizard Street, Bartholomew Square and Mitchell Street during pick-up and drop-off times.

To measure the impact of the St Luke’s School Street trial, we collected your feedback during the trial period and held a public consultation from Monday 6 March to Sunday 2 April 2023. We also monitored the area. We carefully considered the wide range of feedback we received during the trial, including emails, formal objections and the public consultation itself.

Next steps for St Luke’s School Street

The feedback that we received and the monitoring data that we collected showed that the School Street had mostly positive impacts and achieved its goals.

We decided to make the St Luke’s School Street permanent. This means that vehicles can't access Radnor Street, Lizard Street, Bartholomew Square and Mitchell Street from Monday to Friday between 8.40am to 9.20am and 3pm to 3.45pm during term time, unless they have an exemption.

You can read the full consultation report in the Useful Documents section.

As part of our commitment to make our streets cleaner, greener and healthier, we made improvements to the environment outside primary schools on main roads.

We held a public consultation on phase two of the programme from 23 January to 19 February 2023. You can find consultation reports and more information on each primary school that is part of the main roads programme on our School Streets on main roads webpage.

We held a public consultation from 4 July to 31 July 2022 on three School Streets, part of phase 3 of our programme. 

Read the School Streets phase 3 consultation report. This report includes feedback from the public consultation. You can find detailed results for Hugh Myddelton Primary School and Highbury Quadrant Primary School in the report.

The feedback from the consultation and monitoring results shows that the trial at Hugh Myddelton Primary School had mostly positive impacts and achieved the goals of the trial. We extended the scheme from 10 October 2022.

We carefully considered the feedback from the Highbury Quadrant School Street and provided responses in the consultation and decision reports. We created the School Street on 26 September 2022.

You can find more details on both School Streets, including running times, on our School Streets webpage.

You can find consultation reports for School Streets phases 1 and 2 in Useful Documents. You can find more details on the School Streets, including running times, on our School Streets webpage.