Westminster

2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results

Westminster fell from 7th to 12th place this year, with its final Healthy Streets Scorecard score dropping from 5.89 to 5.69 out of 10, and the borough is falling behind the City of London and several Inner London boroughs. The result highlights a real contrast between Westminster’s strong fundamentals, and slower action on several Healthy Streets measures.

The borough has complete 20mph coverage, near-complete CPZ coverage, and one of the highest sustainable modeshare figures in London at 87.6%. More than three-quarters of households are car-free, the highest proportion in the Scorecard. Recent protected cycle track schemes helped raise coverage to 8.2%, while additional bus priority measures increased the bus priority score to 19.9%. However these schemes only arrived very late in the last administration’s tenure, and the new administration has announced some cycle track plans will now not go ahead.

Several other indicators moved in the wrong direction. Westminster has the lowest LTN coverage in Inner London, at just 6.8%, and School Street coverage fell to 11.3% after four unenforced schemes were removed from the total. Walking and cycling participation both fell, with the cycling decline particularly concerning for a central London borough. Pedestrian and cyclist casualty rates also worsened, helping to pull down the overall score. Westminster remains strong on modeshare, car-free households, CPZs and 20mph roads, helped by its location at the heart of the city. However, the new administration now needs to build on this, with accelerated delivery on LTNs, enforced School Streets, bus priority and protected cycling.