20mph schemes
Proposed by Ian Chittenden.
Seconded by Antony Hook
Background information
Kent County Council have for many years promoted the use of 20mph schemes in areas throughout Kent and, almost every Borough now has schemes in place in selected part of their area. The acceptance of a series of 20mph schemes as part of the Governments recent Active Travel initiative has accelerated the process in many existing built up areas. It is also strongly recognised that a reduction from 30mph down to 20mph helps cuts the number of accidents, reduces the seriousness of injury when accidents occur and saves lives.
MOTION
This Council requests that the Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport actively promotes the reduction of the default speed limit in all new housing developments to 20mph by:
• Recommending to District Planning Officers through the Consultee process in relation to all new housing development applications that the design of the estate roads should be such as to promote a default speed of 20mph.
• Adapting the Kent Design Guide to ensure that new estate roads are designed and constructed to ensure target speeds are self-enforcing at 20mph.
Minutes:
(1) Mr Chittenden moved and Mr Hook seconded the following motion:
“This Council requests that the Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport actively promotes the reduction of the default speed limit in all new housing developments to 20mph by:
• Recommending to District Planning Officers through the Consultee process in relation to all new housing development applications that the design of the estate roads should be such as to promote a default speed of 20mph.
• Adapting the Kent Design Guide to ensure that new estate roads are designed and constructed to ensure target speeds are self-enforcing at 20mph.”
(2) Mr Payne proposed and Miss Rankin seconded the following amendment:
“This Kent County Council
requests that the Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport
actively promotes the reduction of the default speed limit in
all new housing developments to 20mph by:
•
Recommending to District Planning Officers through the Consultee
process in relation to all new housing development applications
that the design of the estate roads should be such as to promote a default speed of
20mph.
•
Further development Adapting of
the Kent Design Guide to ensure that new estate roads continue
to be are designed and constructed to ensure target
speeds are self-enforcing at 20mph.
• Kent County Council recommending to District Planning Officers that the design of new housing estate roads should wherever possible promote a default speed of 20mph.
Furthermore, that based upon the learning acquired from the Emergency Active Travel Fund town wide and other 20mph trials, Kent County Council will look to introduce further 20mph schemes when government funding becomes available provided that safety benefits can be shown and there is community support for any such individual scheme.”
(3) The proposer and seconder of the original motion agreed to incorporate the amendments into their motion and the Council gave its consent to this approach.
(4) Following the debate the motion as set out in paragraph (2) above was put to the vote and the voting was as follows
For (59)
Mrs Allen, Mr Angell, Mr Balfour, Mr Barrington-King, Mr Bartlett, Mrs Bell, Mrs Beresford, Mrs Binks, Mr Bird, Mr Bond, Mr Bowles, Mr Brazier, Miss Carey, Mrs Chandler, Mr Chittenden, Mr Clinch, Mrs Cole, Mr Collor, Miss Constantine, Mr Cook, Mr Cooke, Mrs Crabtree, Mr Daley, Mrs Dean, Mr Farrell, Mrs Game, Mr Gough, Mrs Hamilton, Mr Harman, Mr Hill, Mr Hills, Mrs Hohler, Mr Homewood, Mr Hook, Mr Hotson, Mrs Hurst, Mr Kite, Mr Koowaree, Mr Lake, Mr Lewis, Mr Long, Mr Love, Mr Marsh, Mr McInroy, Mr Northey, Mr Oakford, Mr Pascoe, Mr Payne, Miss Prendergast, Mr Pugh, Miss Rankin, Mr Rayner, Mr Simkins, Dr Sullivan, Mr Sweetland, Mr Thomas, Mr Whiting, Mr Whybrow, Mr Wright
Against (0)
Abstain (0)
Motion carried
(5) RESOLVED that Kent County Council requests that the Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport actively promotes the reduction of the default speed limit in new housing developments to 20mph by:
• Further development of the Kent Design Guide to ensure that new estate roads continue to be designed and constructed to ensure target speeds are self-enforcing at 20mph.
• Kent County Council recommending to District Planning Officers that the design of new housing estate roads should wherever possible promote a default speed of 20mph.
Furthermore, that based upon the learning acquired from the Emergency Active Travel Fund town wide and other 20mph trials, Kent County Council will look to introduce further 20mph schemes when government funding becomes available provided that safety benefits can be shown and there is community support for any such individual scheme.