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Safer Routes to School - Foundry Lane Primary School

SRTS Foundry Lane 1

Summary 

  • Where: Foundry Lane Primary School area  
  • What: Safer Routes to School  
  • Why: To improve the local area for walking, wheeling and cycling to help people make local journeys  
  • How: Active Travel England’s Combined Active Travel Fund 

Project Details  

Southampton City Council is committed to improving road safety for both school and local communities through our Safer Routes to School (SRtS) programme. The SRtS programme aims to make the journey to and from school safer through working with the school and community on initiatives, enforcement and infrastructure improvements.   

Foundry Lane Primary School is on our SRtS programme to create safer ways of getting to the school.  This is being developed with the school community and residents so everyone can benefit.    

Using capital funding from Active Travel England’s Combined Active Travel Fund (CATF), the Council is proposing to make changes on Foundry Lane and English Road, with scope for improvements at the Heysham Road and Villiers Road junction.  The CATF funding can only be used on projects designed to improve the walking, cycling and wheeling environment.   

For more details of Active Travel Fund funded schemes, please see the Active Travel tab above. 

Latest news 

November 2025 

The Council has secured funding from Active Travel England to support the development and building of a scheme in the area around Foundry Lane Primary School that would focus on active travel, such as walking, wheeling, and cycling. 

Thank you for those who responded to our initial perception survey carried out in December 2023. Since then, we have analysed the responses received which has helped to identify proposals that could be implemented to help improve road safety and enable more active travel. 

We want to hear your views to help us amend or enhance the proposed SRtS scheme in the Foundry Lane Primary School area. Following this, the proposals that will be taken forward will be formally consulted on through the Traffic Regulation Order process.  

The following proposals have been developed for the Foundry Lane Safer Routes to School project: 

  1. A zebra crossing on Foundry Lane to the north of its junction with English Road to support safer crossings 24/7. Accessibility improvements at this junction by introducing a raised table to create a continuously level surface for people walking, pushing prams, and using wheelchairs or other mobility aids. 
  2. Pavement widening on Foundry Lane from its junction with English Road/Heysham Road to approximately 10m north of the school gate. This is to accommodate high pedestrian flows during peak hours. 
  3. Improvements to enhance visibility of the ‘School Street’ on English Road between its junctions with Imperial Avenue and Foundry Lane. Installation of camera columns to enable future camera enforcement of the restriction. More information about ‘School Streets’ can be found here.
  4. A raised table at the English Road/Imperial Avenue junction to create a continuously level surface for people walking, pushing prams, and using wheelchairs or other mobility aids. The raised table also helps to reduce vehicle speed.  
  5. Introduction of rain gardens or other Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) to increase biodiversity and reduce the risk of surface water flooding. 

The perception survey also identified the Heysham Road/Villiers Road junction as an area with high traffic flow, congestion and road safety issues, so we are keen to hear from you what could mitigate these issues.  

You can let us know your views through our survey. The survey closes on 31st December 2025 at 23:45.  

Illustrative designs and general arrangements drawings can be seen below:

A map showing the locations of the proposals referenced in the web content above.

February 2024 

In December 2023, we invited residents living near to Foundry Lane Primary School and the school community to complete a travel perception survey.  This was to help us find out about how people are travelling in the area, road safety issues, barriers to active travel and potential solutions to the identified issues to inform the SRtS proposals.   

We received 124 adult responses and 398 pupil responses. We analysed the responses and developed proposals to resolve the identified issues in the perception survey, the school travel plan and Officer observations.   

You can see a summary of the responses below: 

Adult Survey  

  • 61% of respondents said that they were dissatisfied with the safety of children on the way to and from school 
  • 53% of respondents were dissatisfied with the ease of crossing roads on foot 
  • 95% support road safety improvements  
  • 89% of respondents agree with proposals to improve walking and cycling 
  • 85% agree that improvements to walking and cycling will support reducing congestion and air pollution 
  • 68% support lower speed limits 
  • There were 42 suggestions for restricted parking/enforcement measures 
  • 21 suggestions for reducing traffic and traffic calming measures 

Pupil Survey

  • 84% of pupils would like fewer vehicles on the street on their way to and from school 
  • 81% of pupils want more places to cross safely  
  • 84% of pupils want more space to walk, cycle, scoot and wheel to school  
  • 70% of pupils walk, cycle, scoot, wheel or take the bus to school but 91% want to travel actively or sustainably to school