Tudor Road in Southall has been added to the Ealing School Streets scheme to help reduce traffic and encourage walking and cycling. 

Tudor Primary School in Southall has joined the Ealing School Streets scheme from 6th March which means that streets around the school will be closed to most traffic during school opening and closing times to help reduce the traffic through encouraging students to walk and cycle to school. 

Councillor Surinder Kaul Jassal, councillor for Southall West, was part of the announcement at the school on Monday along with the School Travel Team for Ealing Council.

Cars that enter the area, marked by signs, between 8.30am and 9am in the morning and 3pm and 4pm in the afternoon will be fined by Ealing Council. 

The only exemptions to this are: residents, businesses, blue badge holders, and those with traffic order exemptions. 

The programme started in September 2020 with Perivale Primary and St John Fisher Catholic schools closing off streets and after 18 months a consultation found that almost 80% of people agreed or strongly agreed with the system. 

In Ealing, 84% of primary school children live within one mile of their school, less than a twenty-minute walk or five-minute cycle, and over a quarter of traffic in the borough at peak time in the morning is made up of people on the school run. 

As well as reducing traffic, encouraging walking and cycling helps to get children more active, as Public Health England guidance recommends children get at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity per day. 

To find out more about school streets, visit the Ealing Council website.