Southwark

2023 Healthy Streets Scorecard results

Southwark sits in fifth place with a Healthy Streets score of 6.3 in 2023. Southwark is seeing progress on a number of the major indicators with falling levels of car ownership and increases in the CPZ coverage (65% coverage final score). Controlled parking is likely to increase substantially with the delivery of a Council pledge to roll out CPZs across the borough by 2024. There was a drop in the proportion of schools with a School Street (21% in 2022 to 19% in 2023) and a concerted effort to roll out more ANPR or barrier enforced School Streets is required. Southwark will benefit from the TfL plans to reduce speed limits to 20mph on all of the remaining Red Route roads in the borough during autumn 2023.

Southwark’s new ‘Streets for People’ transport strategy contains a commitment to improve residents’ quality of life, by changing how they travel and use streets in the borough. Tying in with many HSS key asks, the document’s first objective is to reduce the need to own or use a car, other objectives include making walking, cycling and wheeling easier (objective 5), especially for children and young people (objective 6) and reducing emissions from transport (objective 11). Striking is the recognition that streets are “publicly owned” and that “At the moment we put cars first – we need to change that”.