School Streets

A school street is an active travel initiative to create safer and healthier car-free environments outside schools across the county.

The aim of a school street is to reduce school drop-off and pick-up traffic volumes by minimising the volume of motorised vehicles entering the road or roads outside a school during their busy morning drop-off and afternoon pick-up times. Our school streets operate and are enforced during term-time but not during school holidays, although the signs stay in place all year round.

A school street is developed in collaboration with schools, implementing additional active travel measures to support increased walking, wheeling, cycling, and scooting to school, whilst reducing car use and car dependence.

A school street is implemented by Oxfordshire County Council using an experimental traffic regulation order (ETRO) followed by a traffic regulation order (TRO).

ANPR Cameras:  ANPR cameras and signage were installed at the top of Barracks Lane and are in operation between 8 and 9am and between 2.30 and 3.30pm.  Driving down between these times will incur a fine.