Broomhill Park Road, Southborough in Tunbridge Wells - Prohibition of driving

Consultation has concluded

Following a successful period as an experimental order it has been decided to make this a permanent order for Southborough C of E Primary School, Broomhill Park Road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells. The result is a safer, healthier, and more pleasant environment at the school entrance.

The ‘School Streets’ schemes offer a proactive solution for school communities to tackle air pollution, poor health and road danger reduction. The scheme promotes healthier lifestyles and facilitates an increase in active travel to/from school for families, creating a better environment for everyone.

The effect of the Order would be to revoke the experimental order that has been in place since 13 September 2021 and replace it with a permanent order to stop vehicles from driving either way along Broomhill Park Road from its junction with Prospect Road Southborough, Tunbridge Wells between 8am - 8.45am and 2.45pm – 3.30pm Monday to Friday making it safer for children traveling to school:

This order has been made for the following reasons:

  • avoid the danger to persons or other traffic using the road or any other road or for preventing the likelihood of any such danger arising.
  • for preserving or improving the amenities of the area through which the road runs.
  • for facilitating the passage on the road or any other road of any class of traffic (including pedestrians).

Further information regarding healthier, safer, cleaner Kent School Streets can be found on Kent Connected.


Following a successful period as an experimental order it has been decided to make this a permanent order for Southborough C of E Primary School, Broomhill Park Road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells. The result is a safer, healthier, and more pleasant environment at the school entrance.

The ‘School Streets’ schemes offer a proactive solution for school communities to tackle air pollution, poor health and road danger reduction. The scheme promotes healthier lifestyles and facilitates an increase in active travel to/from school for families, creating a better environment for everyone.

The effect of the Order would be to revoke the experimental order that has been in place since 13 September 2021 and replace it with a permanent order to stop vehicles from driving either way along Broomhill Park Road from its junction with Prospect Road Southborough, Tunbridge Wells between 8am - 8.45am and 2.45pm – 3.30pm Monday to Friday making it safer for children traveling to school:

This order has been made for the following reasons:

  • avoid the danger to persons or other traffic using the road or any other road or for preventing the likelihood of any such danger arising.
  • for preserving or improving the amenities of the area through which the road runs.
  • for facilitating the passage on the road or any other road of any class of traffic (including pedestrians).

Further information regarding healthier, safer, cleaner Kent School Streets can be found on Kent Connected.


Consultation has concluded

  • 27 May 2022

    A full statement of the Council’s reasons for making the Order, a plan indicating the location and the effect and a copy of any other Orders which will be amended by the made Order may be examined at Kent Highways, Transportation & Waste, Ashford Highway Depot, Henwood Industrial Estate, Unit 4 Javelin Way, Ashford, Kent TN24 8AD by appointment booked through tro@kent.gov.uk or viewed online from 27 May 2022 at www.kent.gov.uk/highwaysconsultations

    Anyone may, by application to the High Court by 11 July 22, challenge the validity of the Orders or of any provision contained in them on the grounds that it is not within the powers conferred by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, or any instrument made thereunder, or that there has been a failure to comply with any statutory requirement to the Orders.