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2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results

Richmond upon Thames rose from 17th to 15th place this year, with its final Healthy Streets Scorecard score increasing from 4.45 to 4.59 out of 10. It remains one of Outer London’s better performing boroughs overall, helped particularly by high active travel rates and widespread coverage of 20mph speed limits..

Richmond’s outcome indicators are among the best in Outer London. It has the highest walking rate in London, with 45.0% of adults walking regularly, and the highest cycling participation in Outer London, at 23.9%. Sustainable modeshare remains high by Outer London standards at 67.5%, and pedestrian casualty rates are among the lowest in the capital. The borough also has effectively complete 20mph coverage and relatively high CPZ coverage for Outer London at 45.2%.

The main weaknesses are in the delivery indicators that should support these strong travel habits. LTN coverage is low at 12.9%, bus priority is limited at 9.6%, and protected cycle track coverage fell slightly to 1.8% after a section that did not meet the quality criteria was removed from the mapping. The most significant result of the new School Streets methodology is in Richmond: recorded School Street coverage fell to 20.2% despite five new schemes, because nine were removed from the total as they are not enforced in any way. Richmond has a strong active travel base, but now needs more consistent delivery on traffic reduction, bus priority and protected cycling, and especially proper enforcement of School Streets.

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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.