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2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results
Lewisham rose from 18th to 16th place this year, with its final Healthy Streets Scorecard score increasing from 4.41 to 4.57 out of 10. This improvement was driven mainly by school travel, better Travel for Life participation and some updated records, rather than by across-the-board delivery.
The standout result is School Streets. Lewisham added 10 schemes, taking its total to 61 and increasing coverage from 56.7% to 66.3%, the highest proportion in London. Travel for Life participation also rose sharply, from 8.2% to 26.8%. Lewisham recorded the biggest increase in LTN coverage this year, rising from 17.7% to 20.9%, although this was a reporting update incorporating existing areas rather than new schemes. There was also some practical delivery, with new protected cycle track on Deptford Church Street and new bus lanes on Bromley Road.
The wider picture is still mixed. 20mph coverage is complete, but CPZ coverage remains at 26.3%, the lowest of any Inner London borough. Sustainable modeshare fell to 71.6%, still low for Inner London, and the proportion of adults walking regularly also declined. Cycling participation improved to 15.9%, but car ownership and the polluting-vehicle measure remain weak by Inner London standards. Lewisham’s School Street progress is genuinely impressive, but the borough still needs stronger action on controlled parking, protected cycling 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.