Decision details

This report seeks approval from the Director for Environment and Sustainability for ‘phase 3’ of the COVID-19: enabling safe travel in Camden – Healthy School Streets schemes under delegated authority of the Cabinet Member for a Sustainable Camden. The schemes would be implemented as trials, under an Experimental Traffic Order (ETO). These would restrict through traffic, and create Heathy School Streets by restricting motor vehicles at the start and end of the school day. The aim of the programme is to provide children with the opportunity to travel to and from school in a safer environment by restricting vehicles during school opening and closing times.

This report follows the ‘COVID-19 response: enabling safe travel in Camden (SC/2020/74) report, and subsequent decision taken by the Cabinet Member for a Sustainable Camden. The decision was to roll out a programme of measures to assist in making Camden streets safer during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, and associated impacts on travel in the Borough.

THAT the Director for Environment and Sustainability, having considered the proposals in relation to the objectives set out in the Report ‘COVID-19 response: enabling safe travel in Camden’, and Camden Council’s powers under Section 9 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, approves the proposals set out in section 2 of this report.