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This project successfully funded on 15th February 2026, you can still support them with a donation.
Brailes School Safety Zone
Banbury, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Aim
To create a 20mph Safety Zone, each side of a raised zebra crossing that ensures vehicles are ‘forced’ to slow down at that crossing point.
Thank you to all those who have kindly helped us achieve the first stage of our Brailes Road Safety Improvement plan which has enabled us to purchase the sets of Flashing School Warning Lights. These will be sited in 3 locations around the primary school creating a new 'School Safety Zone’.
However, this is only part of what is needed to make it safer for children to cross the road.
In conjunction with the Flashing Warning Signs, within the ‘School Safety Zone’ we also need to install a pedestrian ‘Zebra' crossing. This will ‘encourage’ children to cross the road in a safer location instead of dodging between cars anywhere along the stretch between Sutton Lane and the School as they do now.
Zebra crossings in front of schools are critical safety measures designed to protect children by requiring motorists to stop when pedestrians are waiting to, or are already crossing. These areas, often marked with yellow zigzags to prohibit parking, feature flashing amber beacons and are frequently upgraded with raised platforms or speed humps to slow traffic.
Highway’s Department at WCC have told us the cost of a zebra crossing alone can be as much as £40k and may take anything up to a year to finally approve!
Whilst there are grants available that we have applied for, as we did with the Flashing School Warning Lights, our fundraising activities will continue and we hope more commercial sponsors will come on board to help us achieve this.
Thank you.
Please direct any questions to Brailes Community Speedwatch team, or a member of Brailes Parish Council.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made