Decision details

A School Street trial is a temporary restriction prohibiting motor vehicles from entering the road directly at the school gates at drop off and pick up times with the aim of reducing vehicle movements and nurturing confidence in walking and wheeling.

The proposed trials align with the County Council’s and Active Travel England’s ambitions.

A trial period will run from 4 September 2023 until 4 March 2024 at Swiss Gardens Primary School in Shoreham, Arundel CofE Primary School in Arundel, and Thomas A Beckett Junior School in Worthing.

The Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport will be asked to approve the implementation of three Experimental Traffic Regulation Orders for the above schools.

The Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport has –

(1)approved the introduction of three trial ‘School Streets’ at Swiss Gardens Primary School in Shoreham, Arundel CofE Primary School in Arundel and Thomas A Beckett Junior School in Worthingfrom 4 September 2023 until 4 March 2024.

(2)approved the implementation of three Experimental Traffic Regulation Orders at the above schools, the effect of which will be temporary motor vehicle restrictions for school traffic and through traffic at the start and end of the school day during term time but maintaining access for residents.  The ETRO will continue until the end of the trial which will be a minimum of 6 months up to maximum of 18 months, whichever is sooner and will depend on whether the desired outcome has been achieved.

(3)delegated authority to the Director of Law and Assurance to approve the necessary legal procedures, including advertising the Council’s intention to implement the Order; and

(4)delegated authority to the Assistant Director (Highways Transport and Planning) to introduce further ‘School Streets’ trials.

30 August 2023 – update

This School Streets decision is about three schemes starting on 4 September and the decision has cleared call-in.

Unfortunately, one school was incorrectly named in the decision as Thomas A Beckett INFANT school, and it should have said Thomas A Beckett JUNIOR school. This has been amended in the above decision.

The Director of Law and Assurance has advised that he does not consider the error to be so material as to require the rescinding of the decision and its replacement with another that needs to go through the approval and call-in process, and it would not be appropriate to impose any additional delay.

Section 2.4 of the report, Appendix 3 (the detailed plan) and Appendix 4 (stakeholder list) do correctly name the Thomas A Beckett Junior School and consultation and engagement has been undertaken with the Junior School.

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