B4.1.2 Connected schools

New routes to schools must be designed to provide safe and convenient access for children and their guardians travelling by active modes. This may include high-quality surfacing, sufficiently wide footways, dropped kerbs, clearly marked and safe crossing points, and effective traffic calming measures to reduce vehicle speeds.

Proposed school sites must provide for safe and well-managed drop-off and pick-up arrangements for buses and for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) travelling by private transport within the site boundary, supported by appropriate traffic management measures. Proposed drop-off areas must:

• comply with District-wide cycle and other parking standards (Appendix 7, Table 17a)

• be located away from the primary pedestrian entrance

• include a safe and direct walking and wheeling route from the drop-off area to the school’s primary entrance

• be designed to minimise conflict between reversing vehicles and pedestrians, ideally through one-way circulation or dedicated turning areas

All new school development must meet the minimum standards for parking provision as set out within District-wide cycle and other parking standards (Appendix 7).

Communal cycle parking provision for newly proposed schools must:

• provide a minimum 30% of spaces that are Sheffield-type stands that must be supplied to cover all provisions

• incorporate a minimum of 5% of stands at 1 metre spacing to accommodate non-standard and adapted cycles, such as accessible bikes, scooters and cargo bikes

• be covered and located within 50 metres of the primary entrance

• be well-overlooked and lit to maintain passive surveillance and user safety

• have safe and segregated access from motorised transport

• provide a floor- or wall-mounted public bike pump (gas powered) where more than 40 cycle spaces are provided

• provide a public bike pump and repair tool station where more than 80 spaces are provided

• ensure that staff cycle parking is separate and located near the staff block to provide convenient access to showering facilities

• not be accessed through, form part of, or be directly adjacent to any waste storage area