The 8th Healthy Streets Scorecard for London Boroughs has been published and Brent's position is unchanged at 21st out of 33.
Healthy Streets say:
We want all London Boroughs to implement six key measures
These measures will dramatically improve air quality, reduce road danger, boost active lifestyles and reduce carbon emissions – often literally overnight:
- 1. Borough-wide Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
- 2. A default 20mph speed limit on all borough and Transport for London controlled roads
- 3. Small-area Controlled Parking Zones borough-wide
- 4. Protected cycle lanes on main roads
- 5. Traffic-free streets around all schools and safe walking and cycling routes to school
- 6. Bus priority on all routes 24/7
The London Boroughs Healthy Streets Scorecard shows to what extent London Boroughs are putting in place these six key measures – what we call ‘input’ indicators. It also sets out data to show the health of each borough’s streets – what we call ‘outcome’ indicators. By combining the scores for the ten indicators we give each borough a final Healthy Streets score.
Healthy Streets Scorecard for Brent released today: 2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results
Brent remains in 21st place overall this year, but its final Healthy Streets Scorecard score rose from 3.49 to 3.61 out of 10, one of the larger increases in London. The largest contribution to this increase came from a decrease in cycling casualty rates, which represents a real improvement in score. The borough’s strongest results are in outcome indicators: Brent now has the highest sustainable modeshare of any Outer London borough at 68.7%, and also the highest proportion of households without a car, at 51.7%. Car ownership is moving in the right direction, with cars per household falling and the polluting-vehicle score improving from 6.39 to 6.20. The proportion of adults walking regularly has also improved, but remains below 30%, and cycling participation has fallen to 7%.
There are some encouraging signs on school travel too. Brent has 37 School Streets, covering 37.4% of schools, putting it among the stronger Outer London boroughs on this indicator. Its Travel for Life score also improved from 42.3% to 44.4%.
However, other than school streets, Brent’s street-level delivery remains more limited. LTN coverage is unchanged at 12.0%, protected cycle track coverage is still very low at 1.0%, and bus priority is unchanged at 12.1%. CPZ coverage is also unchanged at 35.7%, while 20mph coverage remains static at 61.2%. Brent’s results show that many residents are already travelling sustainably and living with lower car ownership than most Outer London boroughs, but this now needs to be matched by stronger delivery on safer, healthier streets.
The organisation counts Brent as Outer London but the borough, south of the North Circular, has many Inner London features. There are more school streets in the south than in the north.
Details on how the indicators re assessed can be found HERE
