The Dulwich and Herne Hill Safe Routes to School group supports the creation of a permeable filter at Dulwich Village junction as part of Southwark Council’s Covid 19 emergency response measures. This action is supported by all of our schools.  Background: The Our Healthy Streets Dulwich engagement ran for 12 months and comprised of three phases. It was one of the largest and most extensive consultations ever in Southwark. The OHS engagement demonstrated widespread support for a holistic and radical approach to traffic reduction in our area. The idea of a permeable filter at the junction arose from the consensus that traffic should be reduced (phase 1), the support for radical solutions (phase 2) and specific support for a permeable filter (phase 3). The number of parents driving children to school over the last five years has decreased overall. The amount of traffic in our area has increased. There is no solution to the saturation of the Dulwich Village junct...

The members of Dulwich and Herne Hill Safe Routes to School are committed to helping children get to school by sustainable means.  Travel to school by car has gone down over the last three years, as our schools promote the behaviour change that has earned them a disproportionate number of STARS Gold Medals in Southwark for their school travel plans. However, parents who want to let their children walk and cycle are often afraid to do so because of road danger and those who do walk and cycle report finding it intimidating and stressful. We have learned from  past experience that permanent, widespread behaviour change is not possible without creating a network of safe routes to school.  Only infrastructure change can address the dangers that heavy traffic poses to children. One of the main objectives of Our Healthy Streets Dulwich is to provide safe routes to school for children, enabling them to walk, cycle and scoot safely, reducing their exposure to road danger and da...