Safer School Precincts program
Brisbane City Council is taking action to create Safer School Precincts in our suburbs.
We are delivering a tailored and coordinated program of infrastructure improvements in precincts with multiple schools in our suburbs. Whether you walk, ride, catch public transport or drive, these improvements will make travelling around your suburb easier and safer.
The program primarily focuses on road safety improvements, improving pedestrian connectivity and enhancing opportunities for active travel, making it safer for students to get to and from school and creating a more liveable precinct for everyone to enjoy.
We’re committed to getting you to school or home sooner and safer with more transport choices, so you can spend less time travelling and more time doing what’s important.
The Safer School Precincts program will initially kick off in Kedron and Mansfield, with future precincts planned in Wynnum Manly and Indooroopilly.
Program benefits
- Improve safety
- Deliver more sustainable transport infrastructure
- Provide increased transport options
- Enhance precinct liveability
- Ease congestion around schools
- Encourage sustainable travel choices.
About the Safer School Precincts program
Currently, 70% of students in Brisbane are driven to school. This adds thousands of cars to morning and afternoon peak hours, contributing to traffic congestion issues around our suburbs.
Safer School Precincts builds on Council’s award-winning programs, such as Safer Paths to School, Safe School Infrastructure and Active School Travel, to create an innovative program that combines community engagement, infrastructure improvements and behaviour change to connect places for people in our suburbs.
Through this program, Council aims to improve safety and ease congestion around schools by creating precincts where sustainable travel, like walking, riding or catching the bus is safer and more convenient.
Council will work with schools, residents and businesses to identify transport opportunities that cater to the varying needs of our local communities. We will use the insights of the community to plan and deliver balanced, coordinated infrastructure improvements to enhance travel options for everyone, whether you walk, ride, catch public transport or drive.
Once the new and improved infrastructure is in place, we will empower children and their families with the knowledge and tools to move safely in their completed Safer School Precinct.
Our Safer School Precincts will be designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, support sustainable travel, and improve connections with nature and our community while getting you where you want to be sooner and safer.
Precincts
Over the next 4 years, Council will deliver Safer School Precincts at 4 key locations across our suburbs. As these precincts become safer and more connected, the benefits will continue to grow for each precinct and the entire city.
Kedron Safer School Precinct
Status: COMMUNITY CONSULTATION closed.
Consultation was completed for the Kedron Safer School Precinct in late 2024.
Having almost completed the first phase of the Safer School Precincts program, Kedron will soon progress to the deliver phase where we consider your feedback alongside technical data to help shape the precinct plan.
The Kedron Safer School Precinct supports Padua College, St Anthony’s Primary School and Mount Alvernia College and the surrounding local community.
Register for updates about the Kedron Safer School Precinct.
Community consultation
Community consultation was open between 12 November and 12 December 2024.
We received valuable feedback from residents, businesses and school community members during the consultation period. Thank you to everyone who took the time to provide their feedback.
See the Kedron Safer School Precinct map
Next steps
Council will review the feedback from the community consultation and prepare a consultation report that will be available on our website in early 2025.
We will continue to keep the community informed of the project progress once updates are available.
Mansfield Safer School Precinct
Status: community consultation coming soon.
Located in Brisbane’s bustling south-eastern suburbs, Mansfield is about to start its journey to becoming a more liveable and safer precinct for everyone to enjoy.
The Mansfield Safer School Precinct will support Mansfield State School, Mansfield State High School and Brisbane Adventist College and the surrounding local community.
The Mansfield Safer School Precinct is proudly supported by the Queensland Government’s Cycle Network Local Government Grants program.
Register for updates about the Mansfield Safer School Precinct.
Wynnum Manly Safer School Precinct
Status: community consultation coming soon.
Register for updates about the Wynnum Manly Safer School Precinct.
Indooroopilly Safer School Precinct
Status: community consultation coming soon.
Register for updates about the Indooroopilly Safer School Precinct.
More information
If you want more information about Council’s Safer School Precincts program, you can:
- phone Council on 07 3403 8888
- email the project team.