School travel plan data from LBRUT, published July 2019

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School Travel Plans
Lindi Louw
School Travel Advisor – Richmond Schools
lindi.louw@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk

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STARS and TfL
• STARS is the TfL STP online toolkit
• 3 levels of accreditation – Bronze, Silver and Gold
• Additional requirements for each level
- Increased completed measures
- Car reduction for single occupancy pupil car travel to school
- Pupil and staff survey
- Evidence
• Benefits of higher level
- years accreditation valid increases
- Bronze = 1 year
- Silver = 2 years
- Gold = 3 years
- historic completed measures that apply also increase as above

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• Primary schools should reach Bronze
accreditation – especially with Junior division
(KS2)
• LA Road Safety Team – offers free to all schools:
– Scooter Training – Year 2
– Pedestrian Skills training - Year 3
– Bikeability - Year 6
– JTA – liaison between Council and pupils, assemblies
– Junior Citizens - Year 6, which includes
• Personal safety
• Independent travel
• Promotion of responsible behaviour on public transport
• Attending a borough event

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• Schools usually cover:
– Curriculum
• Mapping exercises
• Journey planning
• Env benefits of active travel
• Health benefits of active travel
– Funding
• LA/TfL/other funding for travel plan related measures
– Partnership
• Attend JC/other LA/TfL workshop
• Eco/Healthy schools
• Working with other schools (sharing facilities and minibuses etc)
– Promotion
• Comms with parents
• Noticeboards/website travel info
• Publicity/comms with local community

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• Richmond Schools
– Primary, Infants, Juniors, Prep and Pre Prep = 56
– Secondary = 11
– All = 12
– All schools with DfE number are automatically on
STARS
• Some are on split sites with one travel plan and one DfE
number – usually suggest they clarify survey and
activities particular to each site
• Some on same site or adj with 2 travel plan entries and
2 DfE numbers – usually suggest they write one STP to
cover both sites if conditions are similar
• Can add nurseries that may not have DfE numbers

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• Richmond School achievements 17/18
• SSA aim was to increase levels of accreditation rather than
number of schools
– 25 Gold Schools
– 6 Silver Schools
– 5 Bronze Schools
– 2 schools received TfL awards
• Deer Park School – Pedestrian activities
• Turing House – Cycle activities
– SRRCC - Modeshift runner up – ‘Pounding the pavements with
passion’ project
– St Elizabeth’s - school travel champion received an award for
excellent service to the STARS programme
– 16/17 = 3 x TfL awards – Hampton Prep (Pupil led activities),
Barnes (Cycling), East Sheen (School of the Region)
– Consistent recognition for our schools efforts

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• 17/18 Richmond offered schools:
– Peddle my wheels markets x 7 – very positive feedback from parents
– Theatre in Education (TiE) – Riot Act shared surface cycle/pedestrian
etiquette x 10 – very well received by schools
– Small Grants offered to accredited schools for sustainable travel
measures eg banners, bikers b/fast, pool bikes/scooters/balance bikes,
cycle parking
– Golden Lock x 7 With National Book Token prizes for chosen
bike/scooter owners
– 15 balance bikes to nurseries and KS1 departments
– Anti-idling signs poster competition for schools at level crossings south
of the river
– Signs manufactured and put up at level crossings
– Anti-Idling campaigns at 4 schools near level crossings with CL
– MAQF audit at 2/3 air quality sensitive schools with CL
– Engineering measures at various schools
– Termly newsletters with updates and successes, tip of the term and air
quality myth buster
– Promote Bike week, Car Free day and Clean Air Day

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• Richmond School achievements 18/19
– Accreditation projection:
• 25 Gold Schools
• 5 Silver Schools
• 12 Bronze Schools
• Potential increase of 7 accredited travel plans – more
than tripling last years average Borough accreditation
increase
• Difficulties faced this year:
– change in school staff
– GDPR and keeping direct contacts
– Lack of school resources – much of my time has been spent
developing travel plans for schools as much as I can, hence the
increase this year

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• Richmond offered schools:
– Peddle my wheels markets x 4 to date
– TiE – Big Wheel Pollution Solution x 9 – very well received by
schools
– Small Grants offered to accredited schools for sustainable travel
measures eg banners, bikers b/fast, pool bikes/scooters/balance
bikes
– Golden Lock x 9 with National Book Token prizes for chosen
bike/scooter owners
– Anti-Idling campaigns at 1 schools near level crossings with CL
more being planned for when CL returns
– MAQF audit at 1 air quality sensitive nursery with CL
– Engineering measures at various schools – once submissions
and requests are in
– Termly newsletters with updates, successes and suggestions
– Promote Bike Week, Clean Air day, the Big Peddle, Walk to
School Week

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• Bike Week (8-16 June)
• Clean Air Day (20 June)
– Suggestions to schools and help fund:
• Golden Lock
• Dr Bike
• Bikers Breakfast
• Cycle to work day
• Promote cycle to work scheme
• Peddle my Wheels second hand bike markets
• Air quality competitions
• Persuasive letter writing to parents – anti idling topic
• Park and Stride campaign
• TfL’s Active Travel Art Competition
– Pupils travel actively to school and then create a poster about the
unexpected benefits they encountered along the way

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The Big Pedal
- 13 schools registered
– lots of comms
- schools
- social media
- 3 x top 20 places
- Barnes got 7th place overall for large primaries
- prizes for these schools – NBT for their libraries
- Great results this year

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Bike It Schools
– First year Richmond has partaken
– We have 4 Intensive Bike-It schools working with
Sustrans this year
– Barnes Primary, SRRCC Sec, Turing House and St
Richards, Ham
– SRRCC and St Richards, Ham partook in Sustrans
play street big pedal launch (25th March) – results
of post event survey from Sustrans was a little
disappointing low number of replies – more
positive in Ham than in Twickenham

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Cycle Skills Network Audit (CSNA)
– Transport Initiatives were appointed
– Density/porosity mapping
– Junction improvement potential
– RAG mapping based on Bikeability levels
– When previous cycling officer left fell to my budget so
I added an element of school mapping
• Cycling isochrones for 3 x grouped school pockets
– Ham (Meadlands, St Richards, Grey Court)
– Twickenham (SRRCC x 2, RTS, Twickenham Primary Academy
GEMS)
– Twickenham (Orleans Park, Orleans Primary, St Mary’s x 3)
– Possibly potential to do more schools if we like what we receive

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• Plans for 19/20
– TiE x 10
– PMW second hand bike markets
– Small Grants (possibly reduced with more pressures to
support school engineering measures)
– Bike-It with some new Intensive Schools and continue
with the current Intensive on a supported level
– School mapping isochrones for more schools – if these
are well received
– Engineering works at schools based on STARS Issues
lists
– School Streets
– Increase number of travel plans submitted again

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• School Streets
– Assessed about 10-15 schools
– Invited the top 4 to partake – assessed in terms of engineering,
filtering, previous interest, STARS engagement
– Offered workshops with for interested schools next week:
– St Stephens SS included in their MAQ audit
– Barnes replied and are interested
– Stanley Primary
– Orleans Primary
– Since sent info on SS to all schools – widening the catchment
– Committee report for July
– Enforcement possibilities – Experimental Traffic Order, but we’ll
consult residents and parents in advance too, signage, staff
(schools lack resources), ANPR (funding?)
– Hackney suggest start in a new term/year to avoid a big holiday
before trial is up, surveys cover the same baseline/cohort of
pupils

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QUESTIONS?
Q Modal shift:
A We will know once the schools have submitted their data
Q More school engagement:
A School obstacles include: resourcing, priorities, changes in contacts. We are advising staff to discuss
the STP at PTA meetings to try and engage parents in the process. A figure of 60 unengaged schools was
mentioned, but this is misleading as that includes private nurseries (some of which may no longer be
operating), colleges, universities and schools that would usually do 1 travel plan, but have 2 DfE numbers
and so are registered twice – the unengaged number is closer to 30 as many are yet to submit with
deadline being the end of June.
Q Pupils to map their routes to school at the start of the new year:
A This is the recommendation for the mapping activity and we encourage that with schools, we had a
Junior Travel Ambassador Co-Ordinator who worked directly with pupils, but that aside, it is an activity
on STARS and we can reiterate that as a first step for next term.
Q More School Streets:
A The key is school support and again resources, priority for schools, engineering layout, displacement
concerns. We also need to identify a funding stream especially if ANPR is requested (this is the
preference for the schools we’ve approached so far). Hopefully a few good quality SS’s will encourage
other schools and in the meantime we will continue to promote them where feasible.
Q Putting information in public domain:
A Agreed to endeavour to put more information on website, which is currently being updated and more
on social media as activities are offered.
Q Cycle parking ratio at schools:
A The planning requirement is a minimum of 5 spaces per classroom (depending on the nature of the
school. Cycle parking constraints include: planning/conservation area requirements, space (especially
the smaller independent schools), approvals from trusts/diocese for changes on the land, funding.
Schools were asked several times this year to update their cycle parking data, but it would appear, from
what’s in STARS, that many haven’t and the information is not accurate enough to draw any conclusions.
I will push for an update again in the new year.
Q Accident Stats/Travel Plans
A Engineering requests schools enter on STARS are usually of a safety concern, engineers will consider
accident data when they review these. They also ID hotspots annually and consider local STP’s when
designing improvement schemes.