Safer School Streets for Frome

Frome Town Council is exploring setting up a temporary pop-up ‘School Street’ around Oakfield, Trinity and Critchill Schools and would like to hear your views. The aim of the project is to create safer, less congested streets around the schools, to enable more families to walk and cycle, reduce air pollution and enable social distancing. Because the school street gives priority to walking and cycling at all times, it is also expected to benefit local residents and the wider community. This project would be part of national emergency response to Covid19.

It is proposed that a temporary pop-up School Street is set up in September as a trial. All residents who live in the School Streets area will still be able to access the area without restriction as will school staff, buses and people with disabilities. The School Street project will be reviewed and refined monthly and can be developed further or removed if needed.

We'd like to hear your thoughts on these proposals so we can find the best way forward.

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* 1. Are you in favour of setting up a safer ‘School Street’ around Oakfield, Trinity and Critchill schools to enable more people to safely walk and cycle to school?

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* 2. Are you a local resident on Oakfield Rd, Somerset Rd or top of Nunney Road (up to Lynfield Rd)?

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* 3. For residents of Oakfield Rd, Somerset Rd and the top of Nunney Rd, the School Street area will be access only with priority for walking and cycling. This means you will still be able to access and park in front of your house. Are you willing to drive slowly and give priority to cyclists and pedestrians on the school street at all times and inform any visitors  to your home that they will need to drive slowly and safely too?

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* 4. If you need to drive between Nunney and Frome would you be happy to use the Nunney Catch bypass? This will create a safe space outside Trinity and Critchill Schools as well as enabling a safer walking and cycling route between Nunney and Frome.  

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* 5. Do you have any other thoughts or concerns about the proposed safer School Streets project? What is important to you?

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* 6. This is a pop-up. Would you be interested in being part of a group that meets monthly to review the impact of the project?

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