Decision details

To consider the comments received following the advertisement of the Traffic Regulation Orders associated with the speed limits proposed within Batch 27 following the review of A and B class roads.

The proposals have been assessed and are in accordance with the guidance provided by the Department for Transport, Circular 01/13 ‘Setting Local Speed Limits’.

To:

(i)              Implement all the proposals as advertised.

(ii)              Amend the proposals in accordance with the comments received.

(iii)            Abandon the proposals.

Prior to the publication of the recommendations, all the proposals were discussed with the former Wiltshire Safety Camera Partnership, as the enforcement agency at the time.

The review recommendations were provided to Town and Parish Councils in the form of a CD in December 2009 and additionally published on the Wiltshire Council website.

Town and Parish Councils were invited to comment on the recommendations of the review and were given the opportunity to put forward their case should they wish to see a different result from that proposed by the review.  All the review recommendations, together with background information, were made available on the Council’s website.  The Town and Parish Councils were requested to put forward their comments in terms of the criteria set out in Circular 01/06 to enable a review of their case.

Copies of the proposals were distributed to Wiltshire Police and the locally elected Wiltshire Council Member.

During the advertisement period for the Traffic Regulation Order, a total of seven letters have been received. All of these relate to the proposal between Corsham and Gastard, two of which have been taken as objection. The remainder are comments of support with one of those being from Corsham Town Council.