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2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results

Newham rose from 8th to 7th place this year, with its final Healthy Streets Scorecard score increasing from 5.87 to 5.95 out of 10. This was driven most clearly by new cycling infrastructure and continued School Street delivery, making Newham one of the strongest stories of progress in Inner London this year.

The standout result is protected cycling. Newham added significant new sections on Romford Road and the Royal Docks Corridor, increasing its cycle track coverage from 7.3% to 9.3% and keeping it among the leading boroughs in London on this indicator. Newham also added 11 School Streets, although some children’s centres have been removed from the total because they do not meet our criteria; recorded coverage now stands at 50.9%, the second-highest proportion in London. The borough also has complete CPZ coverage and near-complete 20mph coverage.

However, the outcome indicators remain more mixed. Sustainable modeshare fell to 70.4%, the lowest figure in Inner London, and fewer than 30% of adults walk regularly, with walking levels continuing to decline. Cycling participation rose slightly to 9.0%, but remains below 10% despite recent infrastructure delivery. Newham’s results show real progress on the measures councils control most directly, especially protected cycle tracks and School Streets, but this still needs to translate into stronger walking and cycling participation across the borough and reduced levels of road danger.

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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.