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2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results

Kensington & Chelsea remains 14th overall this year, with its final Healthy Streets Scorecard score falling from 4.93 to 4.73 out of 10. For an Inner London borough with many favourable baseline conditions, it remains a notably weak performer on the practical changes needed to make streets safer and healthier.

The borough has complete 20mph coverage and effectively complete CPZ coverage, although its CPZ indicator score is lower, at 73.2%, because a small number of large zones give permit-holders opportunities to park for free far from their addresses. More, smaller zones would strengthen both the score and the policy. Outcome indicators are often strong: sustainable modeshare is 83.0%, it has the highest regular walking rate in Inner London, and almost three-quarters of households are car-free. But these strengths sit alongside some of the weakest delivery indicators in Inner London. LTN coverage is just 8.8%, protected cycle track coverage is the lowest in London at 0.2%, and bus priority is the lowest in Inner London at 5.4%. School Street coverage has improved, but remains low at 17.6%.

The drop in the borough’s overall score was also driven by worsening casualty-rate indicators, especially for cycling, which offset gains on School Streets, Travel for Life and sustainable modeshare. Kensington & Chelsea’s results show that high sustainable travel levels and low car ownership are not enough: the borough urgently needs stronger action on protected cycling, bus priority, School Streets, traffic reduction and more effective CPZ design.

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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.