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Safe
route to Belmont School gets go ahead
Schoolchildren
will benefit from safer roads following the approval by the Area
Committee to spend £70,000 on improved safety around the school
The school,
on Belmont Road, Chiswick, is the latest school to receive funding
for the Safer Routes Scheme, which benefits pupils, parents and
other local residents.
Safe and Healthy
Routes to Schools schemes are intended to encourage parents, carers
and children to walk, cycle (dependent on age) and use public transport
to go to and from school, rather than use private cars. The scheme
consists of physical measures around the school to assist pedestrian
and cycle movement as well as road safety training for children
to educate them in the health and the environmental benefits to
the area around the school.
The measures
approved by the area committee include installing new dropped kerbs,
traffic islands and traffic calming and the widening and resurfacing
of footways. New signs and markings will inform other road users
of the need to take care. Following discussion at the area committee,
further improvements could also include additional pedestrian crossing
facilities, to benefit local residents as well as school children.
Pupils at Belmont
were fully involved in the designing of the safety measures, having
used a model of their school and local area to pinpoint particular
problem areas. The most common problems highlighted centred on the
position of the school on an ‘island’ with almost every pupil attending
the school need to cross at least on road, a problem which has been
targeted with the new plans.
Cllr Peter Thompson,
local ward councillor and Chair of the Chiswick Planning Committee
which approved the plans, said, “ I am delighted that local councillors
on the Chiswick Area Committee were able to support Belmont School’s
Safe Route to School proposals. This package will help to improve
road safety, reduce traffic congestion and, by encouraging pupils
to walk and cycle to school, improve children's health and physical
and social development. Creating a safer, more healthy environment
around Belmont School will benefit the whole local community of
Chiswick!.”
June
2, 2003
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