Earlsheaton Infant School

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This consultation ran between 16 September and 26 October 2025 and has now closed. We are analysing the responses received and will publish an engagement outcome report of our findings soon.


Making the school run safer Earlsheaton Infant School

The roads outside schools can become very busy at drop off and pick up times, leading to congestion and creating safety risks for children, parents, and residents living close by. 

Kirklees Council, in partnership with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, wants to hear your views, safety concerns, and suggestions to make walking and cycling safer, and any other opportunities for safety improvements around the school streets. 

Your feedback will be used to develop and agree a School Travel Action Plan. These plans will suggest measures to tackle the specific road safety challenges faced by the school and build on any work or initiatives that may already be taking place.

Have your say from 16 September until 26 October 2025.




Join a drop-in event

You'll be able to share your feedback with the project team and ask any questions. Paper surveys will be available to take home and submit via our Freepost address shown below.

  • Wednesday 8 October 2025, Earlsheaton Infant School, 2:30pm- 3:30pm


What sort of improvements could be made?

We know Earlsheaton Infant School is already proactive in encouraging more walking, cycling and wheeling, and we want to build on what’s been achieved.

We’re keen to hear your ideas and concerns to help develop measures that will best create a School Travel Action Plan. Measures could include interventions such as:

  • Restricting access outside the school gates

  • Changing the speed limit

  • Repairing or upgrading walking and cycling routes

  • Restricting through traffic on some streets, except for residents, at school drop-off and pick up times

  • New pedestrian crossings

  • Installing traffic-calming features

  • More activities within school, for example, cycle training, or working with organisations such as Living Streets to encourage more walking, cycling and scooting

School Travel Action Plans will provide the evidence base for priority allocation of the limited funding available at this time, to up to three selected schools or centres identified as having the greatest need, and for allocation of potential future rounds of funding to further schools or centres depending on agreed priorities.


Why are we doing this?


  • To make streets safer for children and residents

  • Improve road safety, especially for vulnerable users – such as children – outside schools

  • Address barriers to walking, cycling and wheeling

  • Improve air quality outside of schools

  • To help tackle the climate emergency by encouraging walking, cycling and wheeling as alternatives to the car

To achieve this, we want to hear about your current travel habits – as someone who travels to school or as local resident using these roads. We need to better understand habits and barriers to active travel and any safety concerns on these routes. We need your ideas and suggestion for potential measures that would make walking, cycling or wheeling along these routes easier and safer for you.

Who will benefit?

Young people and children are disproportionately affected by road traffic accidents and air pollution. This scheme aims to limit car use and speeds around schools, and positively impact children through reducing accidents and exposure to air pollution. 

Local communities will benefit from reduced congestion and improved air quality, with safer and more fit-for-purpose walking and cycling routes and fewer on-street collisions. 


Have your say

You can let us know what you think in the following ways:

  • Complete our online questionnaire by 11.59pm on 26 October 2025

  • Print a copy of the questionnaire and return it to us free of charge using the FREEPOST address below

  • Join us at an event to speak to the project team see date below

Your feedback will help to shape potential future improvements to make the streets surrounding the school safer for everyone.

Contact us and accessibility

If you would like to contact us or request information in an alternative format you can:

  • Email yourvoice@westyorks-ca.gov.uk

  • Phone MetroLine on 0113 245 7676

  • Write to FREEPOST WEST YORKSHIRE COMBINED AUTHORITY

Next steps

This engagement will close on Sunday 26 October 2025 at 11.59pm. If you’d like to know the outcome of this engagement, please register to Your Voice.

We will consider all feedback and the results will be used to shape and inform a School Travel Action Plan. There may be further opportunities to comment depending on any measures proposed as a result.

Funding

Subject to a successful business case the Kirklees Speed Limit Review scheme will be delivered in partnership with Kirklees Council using funding allocated to the Combined Authority by HM Government. The funding for this scheme is known as capital funding, this means it can only be spent on schemes to deliver new or improved infrastructure. The initial cost of the scheme is expected to be £900,000.


This consultation ran between 16 September and 26 October 2025 and has now closed. We are analysing the responses received and will publish an engagement outcome report of our findings soon.


Making the school run safer Earlsheaton Infant School

The roads outside schools can become very busy at drop off and pick up times, leading to congestion and creating safety risks for children, parents, and residents living close by. 

Kirklees Council, in partnership with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, wants to hear your views, safety concerns, and suggestions to make walking and cycling safer, and any other opportunities for safety improvements around the school streets. 

Your feedback will be used to develop and agree a School Travel Action Plan. These plans will suggest measures to tackle the specific road safety challenges faced by the school and build on any work or initiatives that may already be taking place.

Have your say from 16 September until 26 October 2025.




Join a drop-in event

You'll be able to share your feedback with the project team and ask any questions. Paper surveys will be available to take home and submit via our Freepost address shown below.

  • Wednesday 8 October 2025, Earlsheaton Infant School, 2:30pm- 3:30pm


What sort of improvements could be made?

We know Earlsheaton Infant School is already proactive in encouraging more walking, cycling and wheeling, and we want to build on what’s been achieved.

We’re keen to hear your ideas and concerns to help develop measures that will best create a School Travel Action Plan. Measures could include interventions such as:

  • Restricting access outside the school gates

  • Changing the speed limit

  • Repairing or upgrading walking and cycling routes

  • Restricting through traffic on some streets, except for residents, at school drop-off and pick up times

  • New pedestrian crossings

  • Installing traffic-calming features

  • More activities within school, for example, cycle training, or working with organisations such as Living Streets to encourage more walking, cycling and scooting

School Travel Action Plans will provide the evidence base for priority allocation of the limited funding available at this time, to up to three selected schools or centres identified as having the greatest need, and for allocation of potential future rounds of funding to further schools or centres depending on agreed priorities.


Why are we doing this?


  • To make streets safer for children and residents

  • Improve road safety, especially for vulnerable users – such as children – outside schools

  • Address barriers to walking, cycling and wheeling

  • Improve air quality outside of schools

  • To help tackle the climate emergency by encouraging walking, cycling and wheeling as alternatives to the car

To achieve this, we want to hear about your current travel habits – as someone who travels to school or as local resident using these roads. We need to better understand habits and barriers to active travel and any safety concerns on these routes. We need your ideas and suggestion for potential measures that would make walking, cycling or wheeling along these routes easier and safer for you.

Who will benefit?

Young people and children are disproportionately affected by road traffic accidents and air pollution. This scheme aims to limit car use and speeds around schools, and positively impact children through reducing accidents and exposure to air pollution. 

Local communities will benefit from reduced congestion and improved air quality, with safer and more fit-for-purpose walking and cycling routes and fewer on-street collisions. 


Have your say

You can let us know what you think in the following ways:

  • Complete our online questionnaire by 11.59pm on 26 October 2025

  • Print a copy of the questionnaire and return it to us free of charge using the FREEPOST address below

  • Join us at an event to speak to the project team see date below

Your feedback will help to shape potential future improvements to make the streets surrounding the school safer for everyone.

Contact us and accessibility

If you would like to contact us or request information in an alternative format you can:

  • Email yourvoice@westyorks-ca.gov.uk

  • Phone MetroLine on 0113 245 7676

  • Write to FREEPOST WEST YORKSHIRE COMBINED AUTHORITY

Next steps

This engagement will close on Sunday 26 October 2025 at 11.59pm. If you’d like to know the outcome of this engagement, please register to Your Voice.

We will consider all feedback and the results will be used to shape and inform a School Travel Action Plan. There may be further opportunities to comment depending on any measures proposed as a result.

Funding

Subject to a successful business case the Kirklees Speed Limit Review scheme will be delivered in partnership with Kirklees Council using funding allocated to the Combined Authority by HM Government. The funding for this scheme is known as capital funding, this means it can only be spent on schemes to deliver new or improved infrastructure. The initial cost of the scheme is expected to be £900,000.


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