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Queens Park School - Safer Streets - Road Closure Order

We the undersigned petition Brighton & Hove Council to introduce a school street closure order on the street/s adjacent to Queens Park Primary School

Dangerous driving and parking outside the school has become an increasing issue. With rising stress levels and flaring tempers, we have seen staff being abused when trying to manage the situation and – most scarily of all – the lives of our children being put at risk.

This can’t continue.

In September Brighton and Hove council has introduced a successful road closure scheme across 14 schools, including neighbouring St Luke’s School, in which roads adjacent to the school entrance are closed during drop off and pick up times.

Without exception, all schools report increased safety and a positive impact of the programme. Queen’s Park School was recently informed that there is not enough funding available to extend the scheme to our school.

Why is the safety of our children less important?

We have teamed up with our local Councillor Nick Childs to help improve the situation for our school.

Please sign and share our petition to help us bring the scheme to our school!

This ePetition ran from 01/12/2020 to 18/01/2021 and has now finished.

107 people signed this ePetition.

Council response

Thank you for bringing this petition to the committee.

As you will be aware, we are fully committed to introducing School Streets across the city having brought an amendment to the ETS Committee on 23 June 2020. Following the successful implementation of 9 road closures through the Emergency School Streets Programme, I have asked officers to look at how School Streets can be delivered as part of a future programme which can delivered within budget allocations starting in the next financial year.
We are keen to support a School Streets closure at Queen’s Park and I can assure you that it will a priority school for a closure under any future programme. However, these schemes do rely heavily on volunteers for setting up and operating the road closures at both ends of the day so it is very resource intensive and therefore relies on volunteers from the schools to come forward so we will be looking to you and fellow petitioners from the community to make this possible. Officers will always seek to improve road safety where possible and through a future School Streets programme, we will be able to explore where physical measures can be introduced to reduce the pressure on schools to recruit high numbers of volunteers. Proposals will be discussed with ward councillors and schools as well as the wider community.
I hope that gives you and can give your residents some assurances that your school is being worked through and you will be contacted by officers at the earliest opportunity with some proposals.

 


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