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2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results

Tower Hamlets rose from 10th to 9th place this year, with its final Healthy Streets Scorecard score increasing from 5.74 to 5.84 out of 10. The borough performs well on some baseline indicators, and this year’s change was driven by small improvements to outcome scores relative to other boroughs, not by new delivery, which is unsurprising given the current council opposes many active travel schemes.

Sustainable modeshare remains high at 82.8%, and car ownership is very low at 31.0 cars per 100 households. Tower Hamlets also has complete 20mph and CPZ coverage however its CPZ indicator score is lower than universal coverage might suggest, at 87.9%, 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.

LTN coverage in Tower Hamlets remains unchanged at 30.1%, although in the context of extensive efforts by the borough’s mayor to remove several existing LTN filters, a stable score here represents a victory for campaigners. Protected cycle track coverage is also respectable at 6.7%, and cycling participation rose slightly to 19.6%.

The main gain in the overall score came from an improved cyclist casualty-rate score, with the rate falling from 3.42 to 2.41, although this still leaves road danger as an issue to watch. The weaker areas are mostly unchanged: bus priority remains at 23.0%, School Street coverage is low for Inner London at 17.1%, and Travel for Life participation slipped slightly. Tower Hamlets has many of the conditions needed for healthy streets, but needs stronger delivery to match the strongest Inner London boroughs.

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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.