20 mph Orders need your support!

Support the Traffic Regulation Orders for 20 mph speed limits for Preston Drove, Surrenden Road and Stanford Avenue. 

It only takes a couple of minutes to fill in a simple response form on the Council’s website  or email parking.consultation@brighton-hove.gov.uk by 8th April 2014. The reference numbers are TRO-9b-2014 and TRO-9c-2014. You must give your full name and address. Tell the council that these roads are main routes to school. 20 mph speed limits mean greater safety and a better environment for healthy walking and cycling.

This flyer gives the basic details of the Traffic Regulation Orders and puts the main points about 20 mph limits on the three roads.  (To be printed double-sided on A4 paper, then cut in half.) Ideal to provide essential information for  neighbours and friends.

People can also write to the Executive Director Environment, Development & Housing, Brighton & Hove City Council, Hove Town Hall, Room 323, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ, following the points above. Deadline 8th April 2014. Spread the word!

Big step forward on 20 mph in Fiveways and Preston

 

At Brighton and Hove City Council’s Environment, Transport and Sustainability meeting on Tuesday 4 March, it was agreed that Speed Limit Orders will be advertised for the previously excluded roads of Preston Drove, Stanford Avenue and Surrenden Road. The formal decision list is on the Council’s website.

Great news!  But we still have a bit more work to do. We need to support the Speed Limit Orders once published, so keep an eye on the Council’s website where Traffic Regulation Orders are published. Usually here   

 This progress follows the presentation of our successful petition to the council on 30 January and a deputation at 4 March meeting. Well done everyone!

The rest of the Phase 2 area of Brighton and Hove’s 20 mph speed reduction programme has made great progress. Several Traffic Regulation Orders for 20 mph  and one for 30 mph were approved at the same council meeting.

Ask councillors to support 20 mph recommendations – URGENT

URGENT! PLEASE LOBBY the COUNCILLORS ON THE Environment, Transport and Sustainability Committee AS SOON A POSSIBLE (and it must be before their meeting on 4 March 2014 at 4 pm.) Ask them to support the recommendations in the “Brighton and Hove 20 mph phase 2” report, and particularly to support 20 mph speed limits on Preston Drove, Stanford Ave. and Surrenden Rd. The members are:
gill.mitchell@brighton-hove.gcsx.gov.uk (L)
alan.robins@brighton-hove.gcsx.gov.uk (L)
emma.daniel@brighton-hove.gcsx.gov.uk (L)
geoffrey.theobald@brighton-hove.gcsx.gov.uk (C)
tony.janio@brighton-hove.gcsx.gov.uk (C)
graham.cox@brighton-hove.gcsx.gov.uk (C)
ian.davey@brighton-hove.gcsx.gov.uk  (G)
christopher.hawtree@brighton-hove.gcsx.gov.uk (G)
ollie.sykes@brighton-hove.gcsx.gov.uk (G)
pete.west@brighton-hove.gcsx.gov.uk (G) (Chair)

The background to this is that Preston Drove, Stanford Avenue and Surrenden Road were removed from the 20 mph speed limit process at the last minute in December 2013 by Labour and Conservative councillors voting together. But these streets are main routes to schools. Most road deaths and serious injuries occur on roads with 30 mph limits so these are the important roads to improve! Preston Drove and Stanford Avenue are not key bus routes. Fast roads discourage cycling and walking. A petition of 742 signatures in support of 20 mph on those roads is being referred to this Environment, Transport and Sustainability Committee. In addition a deputation is being made. The roads are now back on the agenda! We can achieve 20 mph limits here and elsewhere if the councillors support the 20 mph recommendations!  Please email them using the addresses above.

For further detailed council information: The 20 mph report starts on page 217 in the “Public reports pack” on the council website  The deputation is on page 43. The petition is mentioned on page 45.

Hollingbury Safe Streets also need support

Neighbours in Patcham and Hollingbury are asking people to please support their petition to get local streets included in the new 20 mph limits.   Add your signature here. The petition will be presented at the next Environment, Transport and Sustainability meeting of Brighton and Hove City Council on 4 March.

Support the Traffic Regulation Orders and ask for more 20 mph streets!

The Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) proposals for 20 mph speed limits have been published on the Council website where there is a response form.

Please urgently support 20 mph speed reduction in TRO-3d-2014 (Preston area) and TRO-3e-2014 (Patcham area) and ask for Preston Drove, Stanford Avenue and Surrenden Road along its whole length to also have 20 mph speed limits. Deadline: 14 Feb 2014.  This is the most essential and minimal course of action and will only take a couple of minutes! You can simply email parking.consultation@brighton-hove.gov.uk with the above text.

But please do more if you can! To assist speed reduction in all the areas of Brighton and Hove, SUPPORT THE WHOLE SERIES of 20 mph TROs in one response quoting reference numbers:
West Hove: TRO-3a-2014
Dyke Road West: TRO-3b-2014
Dyke Road East: TRO-3c-2014
Preston: TRO-3d-2014
Patcham and Hollingbury: TRO-3e-2014
Hollingdean and South Moulsecoomb: TRO-3f-2014
Coldean: TRO-3g-2014
Bevendean and North Moulsecoomb:TRO-3h-2014
East Brighton: TRO-3i-2014
Also: TRO-3k-2014 is for Ditchling Road with a reduced 40mph speed limit at the northerly end and TRO-3j-2014 is for Coldean Lane to have a reduced 30mph limit. 

IF YOU FEEL ANYTHING HAS BEEN LEFT OUT, ASK FOR THE OMITTED STREETS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE 20 MPH SPEED REDUCTION PROPOSALS.
Click here for a document giving comments in support of 20 mph speed limits in several of the areas and requesting further inclusions. Has your street or your route been left out? You can check the TRO documents on the Council website.  For example, Ditchling Road is in the area covered by both TRO-3e-2014 and TRO-3f-2014 as well as TRO-3k-2014 which is relevant if you want a 20 mph limit north of Fiveways to cover the Varndean School entrance on Ditchling Road – This is not happening! TRO-3e-2014 omits Braybon Avenue and Carden Hill which will retain a 30 mph limit, though many people wanted these road reduced to 20 mph! See the Council’s message on the amendments to the 20 mph scheme and the Traffic Regulation Orders.

RESPOND NOW! Simply email parking.consultation@brighton-hove.gov.uk  quoting from the above or  click here to view the TROs and respond via the Council’s website.

Petition goes to council

I took the 20mph petition to Brighton and Hove City Council on 30 January 2014.  742 people (which includes paper signatories) had signed by that time. The petition says: “Please reconsider the decision not to reduce the speed limit on Preston Drove, Stanford Avenue, and Surrenden Road to 20mph.”  The council meeting was recorded, so you can watch the presentation here if you wish! The relevant bit starts at 00:12:23 approximately.
http://www.brighton-hove.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/122618 
But no discussion time was timetabled at this meeting. The petition will be referred to the Environment, Transport and Sustainability committee on 4/3/14.

Petition for 20 mph limits

CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION to ask the council to reconsider its decision not to lower the speed limit on Preston Drove, Stanford Avenue and Surrenden Road in Brighton to 20 mph.   These roads are NOT key routes for buses, but they ARE key routes for children & young people going to school. Slower speeds save lives! We need YOU to sign the petition by 29 January! Share widely!

Please print the petition and get more signatures where there’s no computer handy e.g. from your neighbours or parents at the school gates. Can you help distribute these flyers? Please feel free to print some and go ahead. Email me if you would like bulk copies of any of the files for yourself or for distribution.

MAKE SURE YOU RETURN ALL FORMS TO US BY 29th JANUARY 2014!

Please display a poster in your window!