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2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results

Barnet slipped from 27th to 28th place this year, with its overall Healthy Streets Scorecard score falling from 2.53 to 2.09 out of 10. A significant part of this decline reflects corrected data rather than the removal of schemes: the borough’s CPZ score fell from 56.3% to 33.1% because some planned CPZs had previously been counted as live. Even so, Barnet’s CPZ coverage remains substantially higher than it was two years ago, and this correction should not be read as a straightforward loss of parking controls.

However, the wider picture remains weak. School Street numbers fell from 21 schemes to 16, leaving just 9.7% of schools covered; one School Street was removed and the rest of the change was an adjustment to records. The protected cycle track score also fell from 0.6% to 0.4% following mapping corrections, leaving Barnet at the bottom of Outer London on this indicator. Barnet was one of only eight boroughs to increase its 20mph coverage this year, rising from 11.0% to 13.9%, but this remains a very low score. Bus priority also increased from 3.9% to 4.4%, but remains weak.

There are some more positive outcome trends. Sustainable modeshare rose slightly from 54.5% to 55.2%, the proportion of adults walking regularly increased to 34.0%, and Barnet’s polluting-vehicle score improved from 6.28 to 6.06, making it one of the strongest boroughs on vehicle mix. But cycling participation fell from 6.6% to 5.9%, and Barnet remains near the bottom of the overall Scorecard rankings.

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The Healthy Streets Scorecard combines scores for ten indicators to create an overall Healthy Streets score for each borough. See the graph below for 2026 results (includes 2019–2025 results for comparison). For more detail visit the London-wide overview of the 2026 results. You can also:

Scorecard (factored score) chart explained

In the chart above, each borough has been given a factored score. Factor scores are composite variables which provide information about a borough’s placement on a scale. Factor scores are given by F=XB, where X is the indicator normalised score for a borough and B is the factor score coefficient (or weight). Each indicator is weighted as 1, or 0.5 if there are two parts to one indicator, for example Modeshare has a weighting of 1, Active travel – walking has a weighting of 0.5 and Active travel – cycling has a weighting of 0.5. The borough’s total factored score is the sum of all indicator factored scores which is then factored to 10 (multiplied by the number of indicators/10) to give a value on the scale between zero and 10. We can then compare boroughs against each other on the scale.