School Travel Plans
The School Travel Plans pages aim to support schools to encourage sustainable travel to school, in particular walking and cycling.
We can work with you to help you develop a School Travel Plan (STP). Currently, 90 out of 99 schools in Hackney have developed a STP.
The aims of the STP programme are to:
- Significantly reduce the number of car trips on journeys to and from schools
- Encourage more walking and cycling and improve safety on the school journey
- Remove the barriers, both perceived and actual, to walking, cycling and using public transport for school journeys
- Increase the number of young people and adults choosing ‘active travel’ options over that of the car
- Increase understanding among whole school communities of the travel options that are available to them
- Provide information to allow school communities to understand the benefits of active, sustainable transport and to use this information to inform how they choose to travel
Developing a STP
By developing a STP and keeping this ‘active’ by completing Annual Reviews your school can help make a positive change to the journey to and from school.
By encouraging safe and sustainable modes of travel, such as walking and cycling, air pollution and traffic congestion are reduced and students benefit from healthier, active lifestyles.
The pages on the left provide useful advice and resources to help you promote sustainable travel at your school.
A newsletter about School Travel Plans in Hackney is published twice a year in September and January. The latest copies of ‘STP News’ can be downloaded on the right.
More information
For more information or if you have any questions or comments, please contact the STP team: sta@hackney.gov.uk
Key dates
- Review/Rewrite Workshops: 11 March 2010
- Walk to School Week: 17 - 23 May 2010
- Accreditation Workshops: May 2010 (date TBC)
- Bike Week: 12 – 20 June 2010
- Walk to School Month: October 2010
Page updated: 14 Jan 2010