Trial School Street at St Philip’s School

Overview

Our vision is to create a cleaner, greener Kingston and our streets play a major role in this plan. School Streets limit motor vehicle access to the school gates around school start and finish times making it safer and easier for children and their families to walk, cycle or scoot. They reduce local traffic and parking congestion and engine idling, which improves air quality.

We have a planned school street trial at St Philip's School (SS11), which will include Harrow Close and Chessington Hall Gardens, starting on 4 September 2023.

We also have a planned trial at neighbouring Ellingham Primary School, which will include part of Ellingham Road, from the school to the junction with Bolton Road.

A plan of the proposed School Streets schemes can be seen below is also in the related section at the bottom of this web page.

The South of the Borough Neighbourhood Committee approved these trial school street schemes on 6 September 2022, subject to continued engagement with the local community.

Locations and timings of the School Street trial

The School Street trial at St Philip's Primary School, which will include Harrow Close and Chessington Hall Gardens, will be in place from 4 September 2023.

There will be a timed restriction on motor vehicles from Monday to Friday, between 8.15am - 9.15am and 2.30pm - 3.30pm school term time only.

Access for residents

If you live within a School Street trial zone, you will still be able to drive in and out of the area at all times.

Residents living in Harrow Close and Chessington Hall Gardens are within the St Philip’s School Street scheme and are exempt from the timed restriction in Harrow Close and Chessington Hall Gardens.

Register your vehicle

If you live within the scheme area and you have a vehicle that you may be using to drive into the area during the times of the restriction, you must let us know your vehicle registration details. Submit your details through the Exemption Registration Form. The form will ask you a series of questions and to submit documents to prove that you live at your address and own the vehicle. If you live in the School Street area, you will have received a letter with a code to enter when prompted.

If you have any issues with registering your vehicle/s, please email schoolstreets@kingston.gov.uk or call 0208 547 5000.

This scheme will be implemented using an ‘Experimental Traffic Management Order’. 

View the plan and documents under reference 'TMO - P333 Harrow Close and Chessington Hall Gardens Experimental School Street Scheme'

Tell us your thoughts on the scheme

The consultation is open from 4 September 2023 and closes on 3 March 2024

There are two ways you can give your feedback to us as part of this scheme.

• If you would like to tell us about your day to day experience of the scheme you can do so via a short survey below. This feedback helps us understand if there are any issues we need to respond to during the experimental stage of the scheme, and make amendments if necessary. This feedback will be collated and will be considered as a whole when the Committee is making a final decision on the scheme. 
• You can submit an objection or comment on the experimental TMO process to the scheme, by emailing tmo@kingston.gov.uk  or by writing to us at Traffic Order Section, Guildhall 2, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 1EU using reference 'TMO - P333 Harrow Close and Chessington Hall Gardens Experimental School Street Scheme'. All individual feedback submitted via the TMO process will be considered when the Committee is making a final decision on the scheme.

How to get in touch with us

If you have any questions, or need any of the information on our short survey in a different format, please get in touch with us by emailing schoolstreets@kingston.gov.uk or call the council's customer contact centre on 020 8547 5000 and ask for a member of the Highways and Transport team to call you back.  

What happens next

Thank you for your contributions. 

All of the feedback received will be collated and considered as a whole when the South of the Borough Neighbourhood Committee is making a final decision on the scheme.