Councillors and schoolchildren enjoying the improvements outside St Joseph’s

PLANT boxes, wider pavements and seating areas have been set up on school runs in a bid to make family trips greener and safer.

The council said it had revamped the entrances to St Joseph’s Primary School, in Dartmouth Park Hill and Highgate Hill, and laid down a “continuous crossing”.

Fab four: councillors using the continuous crossing

The Hornsey Road entrances to Montem and Samuel Rhodes primary schools have also been revamped with new cycle parking and improvements to pedestrian crossings.