School Streets
School Streets in Greater Manchester
What is a 'School Street'?
Learn more about School Streets and how they can transform the school run.
Making our children happier and safer
Being active has lots of benefits for health and happiness. School Streets are creating safe areas for children to walk, wheel and scoot to and from school.
School Streets in Greater Manchester
We’re working with schools, communities and local authorities to set up School Streets right across Greater Manchester.
Help transform the school run
Everyone can get involved in helping us to deliver successful School Streets by promoting walking, wheeling and scooting.
What is a 'School Street'?
We're transforming the school run
A School Street makes it safer for students to walk, wheel or scoot to and from school by restricting access to motorised vehicles outside a school at drop-off and pick-up times.
School Streets aim to create a pleasant, safe and child-friendly environment around schools, while making sure that essential access to the area is still possible.
Each School Street is implemented in a way that suits the needs of the school and local community. In most cases, a School Street zone consists of a traffic regulation order and related signage, making the road(s) outside the school a pedestrian and cyclist zone at drop-off and pick-up times during school terms
By encouraging more sustainable, active forms of travel, and reducing traffic and parking pressures outside schools during term time, air quality is also improved.
School Streets are making a difference
Active Travel Commissioner, Dame Sarah Storey, met with pupils, parents and staff at Seymour Park Community Primary School to chat about their School Street.
The future of School Streets
Active Travel Commissioner, Dame Sarah Storey, announces that £1.3 million has been allocated to the next round of School Streets and the positive impact this will have on children travelling to schools across Greater Manchester.
School Streets in our region
There are currently 36 School Streets in Greater Manchester and we’re on track to reach 60 School Streets in the next year
For more information about School Streets listed below, please contact the relevant local authority in your area.
Bolton
St Peter's C of E Primary School, Farnworth
Bury
Guardian Angels RC Primary School, Bury
Manchester
Acacias Community Primary School, Burnage
Brookburn Primary School, Chorlton
Manchester Communication Primary Academy, Harpurhey
Manley Park Primary School, Whalley Range
Our Lady’s RC Primary School, Whalley Range
St Augustines C of E Primary School, Manchester
St James’ C of E Primary School, Rusholme
St Paul’s C of E Primary School, Withington
Oldham
Buckstones Primary School, Shaw
Hey with Zion Primary School, Lees
St Edward’s Roman Catholic Primary School, Lees
St Anne’s C of E Primary School, Royton
Salford
Godfrey Ermen Memorial Primary School, Eccles
Stockport
Cheadle Primary School, Cheadle
St Mary’s C of E Primary School, South Reddish
St Matthews C of E Primary School, Edgeley
St Thomas C of E Primary School, Heaton Chapel
Tameside
Livingston Primary School, Mossley
Russell Scott Primary School, Denton
Trafford
Seymour Park Community Primary School, Old Trafford
St Hugh of Lincoln RC Primary School, Stretford
Tyntesfield Primary School, Sale
Urmston Primary School, Urmston
English Martyrs Primary School, Urmston
Victoria Park Infants, Urmston
Wigan
Leigh Central Primary, Leigh
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Leigh
Leigh St Peters C of E Primary School, Leigh
Lamberhead Green Community Primary School, Orrell
Ince CofE Primary School, Ince
St Williams Catholic Primary School, Ince
St Thomas C of E Junior and Infants School, Golborne
St John's C of E Primary School, Abram
St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield
Help transform the school run
Find handy tips and resources, to help children walk, wheel and scoot to school
By 2030, our goal is for 70% of primary school students in Greater Manchester to walk, wheel, scoot to school. Creating more School Streets is just one piece of the puzzle to make the journey to and from school safer.
Support for parents and caregivers
Find out more about the benefits of adding active travel into the school run and read handy tips about how you can do it.
Find support for parents and caregivers.
Support for schools
Schools play an important role in getting more people to be active. Find information and resources that can help you to promote the benefits of active travel to your school community.