Birkby Infant & Nursery School

Making school drop-off and pick-up safer at Birkby Infant & Nursery School

Kirklees Speed Limit Review engagement

The roads outside schools can become very busy at drop off and pick up times, leading to congestion and creating safety risks for children, parents/carers, and residents living close by. 

Kirklees Council, in partnership with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, wants to hear your views, safety concerns, and suggestions to make walking and cycling safer, and any other opportunities for safety improvements around the school streets. 

Your feedback will be used to develop and agree a School Travel Action Plan. These plans will suggest measures to tackle the specific road safety challenges faced by the school and build on any work or initiatives that may already be taking place.

Tell us your views

Have your say from 5 November 2024 – 10 January 2025

What sort of improvements could be made?

We know Birkby Infant & Nursery School is already proactive in encouraging more walking, cycling and wheeling, and we want to build on what’s been achieved.

We’re keen to hear your ideas and concerns to help develop measures that will best create a School Travel Action Plan. Measures could include interventions such as:

Restricting access outside the school gates

Changing the speed limit

Repairing or upgrading walking and cycling routes

Restricting through traffic on some streets, except for residents, at school drop-off and pick up times

New pedestrian crossings

Installing traffic-calming features

More activities within school, for example, cycle training, or working with organisations such as Living Streets to encourage more walking, cycling and scooting

School Travel Action Plans will provide the evidence base for priority allocation of the limited funding available at this time, to up to three selected schools or centres identified as having the greatest need, and for allocation of potential future rounds of funding to further schools or centres depending on agreed priorities.

Why are we doing this?

We want to:

To make streets safer for children and residents

Improve road safety, especially for vulnerable users – such as children – outside schools

Address barriers to walking, cycling and wheeling

Improve air quality outside of schools

To help tackle the climate emergency by encouraging walking, cycling and wheeling as alternatives to the car

To achieve this, we want to hear about your current travel habits – as someone who travels to school or as local resident using these roads. We need to better understand habits and barriers to active travel and any safety concerns on these routes. We need your ideas and suggestion for potential measures that would make walking, cycling or wheeling along these routes easier and safer for you.

Who will benefit?

Young people and children are disproportionately affected by road traffic accidents and air pollution. This scheme aims to limit car use and speeds around schools, and positively impact children through reducing accidents and exposure to air pollution. 

Local communities will benefit from reduced congestion and improved air quality, with safer and more fit-for-purpose walking and cycling routes and fewer on-street collisions. 

Have your say

You can let us know what you think in the following ways:

Complete our online questionnaire by 11.59pm on 2 December 2024

Print copy of the questionnaire if you are a parent/member of staff or resident/local organisation and return it to us free of charge using the FREEPOST address below

Drop a pin in the map below to highlight an area of concern or suggested improvement

Ask us a question using the Question & Answer tool on this page – read frequently asked questions here

Your feedback will help to shape potential future improvements to make the streets surrounding the school safer for everyone.

Contact us and accessibility

If you would like to contact us or request information in an alternative format you can:

Email yourvoice@westyorks-ca.gov.uk

Phone MetroLine on 0113 245 7676

Write to FREEPOST CONSULTATION TEAM WYCA (no stamp required)

Next steps

This engagement will close on Monday 2 December 2024 at 11.59pm. If you’d like to know the outcome of this engagement please register to Your Voice.

We will consider all feedback and the results will be used to shape and inform a School Travel Action Plan. There may be further opportunities to comment depending on any measures proposed as a result.

City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement

The Kirklees Speed Limit Review scheme has been awarded £900,000 of funding from the £830 million City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS), which is aimed at providing an integrated and inclusive transport network and was made possible thanks to the West Yorkshire Mayoral devolution deal. This work will build on the significant investment already being made in making it easier for people to walk, cycle and use public transport around West Yorkshire.