Summary
- Where: St Monica 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: £295k from Active Travel England’s Active Travel Fund Round 5
Project Details
Southampton City Council (SCC) 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.
St Monica 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 Active Travel Fund Round 5 (ATF5) the Council is proposing to make changes on St Monica Road, South East Road and Kathleen Road. The ATF5 funding can only be used on projects designed to improve the walking, cycling and wheeling environment.
For more details of ATF funded schemes, please see the Active Travel tab above.
Latest News
September 2025
Over the past year, we have been developing proposals using a wide range of data sources and feedback from the local community to address the issues identified to us. We are formally consulting on these proposals through the Traffic Regulation Order process.
A booklet outlining and explaining the proposals has also been sent to residents in the area around St Monica Primary School.
Any person wishing to object, support or make any other representation relating to these proposals must do so in writing either online or by post to:
The Highways Legal Team, Southampton City Council, Civic Centre, Southampton, SO14 7LY
You must quote the scheme title: 'St Monica Safer Routes to School Scheme' and, if objecting, state the grounds for the objection.
Representations must be received by 17 October 2025.
Please note that all representations submitted, including the name and address of the person submitting it, may be made available for public inspection.
March 2025
Thank you for those who responded to our initial perception survey carried out in December 2023. Over the past year, we analysed the responses which has helped to identify proposals that could be implemented to help improve road safety.
We want to hear your views to help us amend or enhance the SRtS scheme in the St Monica Primary area. Following this, the proposals that will be taken forward will be formally consulted on through the Traffic Regulation Order process.
The proposals are:
- A zebra crossing on South East Road at the junction of St Monica Road and resurfacing around the crossing. To accommodate the zebra crossing, and not to interfere with existing driveways, more space is required at the end of St Monica Road. This means that St Monica Road will be changed with a larger footway, so there will be no right turn out onto South East Road, and no entry into St Monica Road from South East Road. There will also be accessibility improvements across St Monica Road and greening (such as planting) to the space.
- School Street on St Monica Road between its junctions with South East Road and Maxwell Road.
More information about School Streets can be found here: Managing the School Run - Further parking restrictions on St Monica Road, Maxwell Road and Kathleen Road.
- Shared use cycle space at southern end of the zebra crossing so cycles can go between South East Road and St Monica Road.
- Accessibility improvements to the bus stops on Kathleen Road.
Each proposal has a corresponding number on the map to show the location of the proposal. Please note that the online survey is now closed.
Should residents wish to speak to Officers about the scheme, we will be holding a drop in event on Thursday 27th March 2025 at St Mary’s C of E Church on St Monica Road between 17:00 – 19:00.
December 2023
In December 2023, we invited residents living near to St Monica 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 210 responses from pupils and adults and analysed the responses and developed proposals to resolve the identified issues in the perception survey, the school travel plan and Officer observations.
A summary of the survey results is below and click here to access the full report of the St Monica Primary Travel Perception Survey
Summary of Survey Results
Pupil responses:
- 91% would like fewer vehicles on the street on their way to and from school
- 95% want more places to cross safely
- 88% want more space to walk, cycle, scoot and wheel to school
- Just 45% of pupils walk, cycle, scoot or wheel to school but 75% want to travel actively to school
Adult responses – including local residents, parents/carers of children at St Monica Primary and school staff.
- 85% of respondents said that they were dissatisfied with the safety of children on the way to and from school
- 65% were dissatisfied with the safety of walking and 53% with the safety of cycling
- 60% of respondents were dissatisfied with the ease of crossing roads on foot
- 93% support road safety improvements
- 84% of respondents agree with proposals to improve walking and cycling
- 77% agree that improvements to walking and cycling will support reducing congestion and air pollution
- There were 34 suggestions for restricted parking/enforcement measures
- 12 suggestions for a road closure during peak school travel hours