Decision details

That the Cabinet Member:

a)     Notes the petition requesting additional traffic calming measures be installed on the A632 Top Road and through Bolehill in Calow.

b)    Declines the request for the introduction of additional traffic calming measures on the A632 Top Road through Calow village and on Bolehill in the Parish of Calow.

c)    Supports the Parish Councils application and installation of the SID on Top Road.

d)    Supports officers in continuing to monitor speeds through Bolehill and give support to residents in reporting collisions to the Police directly.

e)Supports officers in ensuring that there is dialogue with the Police in order for there to be continued Police presence and enforcement through Bolehill.

As neither the A632 Top Road nor Bolehill meet the criteria given in the speed management protocol for the installation of addition traffic calming measures.

As neither the A632 Top Road nor Bolehillmeet the collision criteria given in the speed management protocol document, to justify the installation of additional traffic calming, the alternative measure would be for Calow Parish Council to install Speed Indicator Devices which it is currently investigating.

          Officers are also considering moving one of the existing VASs in Bolehill to a location from under the trees so that the solar panels work better. This is subject to the existing sign being able to be relocated and whether there are any funds available to carry out this work.

          Officers consider that regular visits to Bolehill by the Police will have a positive effect on reducing the overall traffic speed of the vehicles that travel through the village. Whilst there has been some Police enforcement, officers have written again to the Traffic Management Officer at Police Headquarters to ask for continued support.

          Councillor Jack Woolley would like the Council to change its Speed Management Protocol so that Bolehill meets the criteria for traffic calming. This would mean that roads where there are high reported vehicle speeds, but no reported injury collisions would be, subject to funding, allowed to have physical traffic calming installed. The Speed Management Protocol has just been updated to include criteria for the SIDs project and the introduction of fixed and average speed cameras. The implications of allowing physical traffic calming on roads that do not have a history of reported injury collisions is that the authorities limited funds that are currently available to tackle reported injury collisions will be diluted to such an extent, that the Council would be unlikely to be able to prioritise its funding as it does now in the future, leaving collision sites untreated. Having limited funding means that the Council must prioritise those sites that have reported injury collisions with traffic calming measures and those sites that have a speeding history need to be targeted by Police enforcement.