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2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results
Havering remains in 31st place overall this year, with its final Healthy Streets Scorecard score falling slightly from 1.69 to 1.63 out of 10. The borough remains one of London’s weakest performers, with little visible progress on the practical changes needed to make streets safer and healthier.
There are a few positive points. Havering added five School Streets, increasing coverage from 19.1% to 24.2% of schools, and its Travel for Life participation remains strong at 57.1%. Havering also reported its CPZs for the first time in several years, giving a more up-to-date coverage figure of 9.3% rather than a straightforward year-on-year comparison. The polluting-vehicle measure improved from 6.78 to 6.54.
However, most core indicators remain very weak. Only 9.9% of borough roads have 20mph limits, LTN coverage is unchanged at 14.7%, protected cycle track coverage remains among the lowest in London at 0.5%, and bus priority has not improved. Sustainable modeshare fell to 48.2%, one of the lowest figures in London, and the proportion of adults walking regularly fell to 25.3%. Cycling participation remains the lowest in the Scorecard, with no new data available this year. Havering also has very high car ownership and the lowest proportion of car-free households in London. The School Street increase is welcome, but Havering still needs a much broader shift on safer speeds, cycling, parking controls and traffic reduction.
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:
- Review summaries of this year’s results for outcome indicators and input indicators
- Read our in-depth explanation of the ten indicators
- View results for other boroughs
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.