Healthy Streets Scorecard 2024 launched!

The 2024 Healthy Streets Scorecard, published on the 15 July by a coalition of campaigners including CPRE London, shows most local authorities in London have done little or nothing on rolling out healthy streets this past year.

The scorecard demonstrates that only a handful of boroughs are making any progress at all. Credit goes to Islington and Waltham Forest in particular, this year’s top Inner and Outer boroughs. But many other boroughs have stalled.

The Healthy Streets Coalition is now calling on the Mayor, TfL and the boroughs to:

1. Urgently create and publish a clear pathway to Net Zero 2030 – with mode share by year and actions needed to achieve them, and to realign other key targets to this.
2. Work with the new national government on both a funding settlement and establishing the means to work with boroughs to ensure every single one acts to deliver the targets, with financial penalties for those who fail to act with sufficient speed.
3. Ensure sustainable modes of transport are strongly prioritised, especially in TfL’s modelling, and particularly where financial support is concerned.

CPRE London supports the Healthy Streets Scorecard as part of our work advocating for ‘compact, efficient cities’ with strong Green Belt protections, which are low-carbon, where people get around by public transport, walking and cycling and can live close to jobs and amenities, and where parks and green spaces are protected for health, recreation, sport and nature. We create compact cities by using land efficiently, recycling sites in need of regeneration, using space better and moving away from car-use which is space-inefficient and has other unwelcome impacts like air pollution and noise.