Decision details

The Cabinet Member considered a report detailing a policy on the installation, maintenance and removal of traffic calming schemes.

Various traffic calming schemes had been implemented throughout the Borough over a number of years. These schemes were generally safety or environmentally led.  The safety related schemes were implemented to reduce the number of killed or seriously injured incidents and environmental schemes were installed in response to residents’ road safety concerns with the benefit of majority support. 

In view of the pressure on the Highway Maintenance Budget, the deteriorating network and traffic claming maintenance requirements, it was proposed that, where highway maintenance work would require the reinstatement of any traffic calming feature likely to make the maintenance operation more difficult or more costly, the need for those features should be reviewed.  The aim of the review would be to assess the ongoing need for the features, looking at the original case made for the scheme and to determine if it was delivering the original objective. If not, the humps and speed cushions or other features would be considered for removal as part of the maintenance works. 

In considering the traffic calming policy appended to the report, Members requested that the first sentence of paragraph 3 be amended as follows:

“New sites will normally only be considered for traffic calming where there are personal injury accidents on the proposed roads.”

This amendment would be incorporated into the policy document.

RESOLVED:

That the Traffic Calming Policy (as amended), as set out in Appendix A to the Report, be approved.