Council Climate Change Action Scorecard and 20mph speed limits
Dear Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council,
One of the criteria in the Council Climate Change Action Scorecard is a Local Authority's commitment to a 20mph speed limit on restricted roads. Local Authorities in Wales and in Scotland will soon be implementing 20mph as a national norm.
In order to assess progress towards 20mph in England, 20's Plenty for Us requests answers from Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council to the following:
1. Do you have plans in place to make 20mph the norm or default speed limit for most restricted roads?
2. Have you requested the UK Government to set 20mph as the default speed limit for restricted roads in England?
3. Are you committed to Vision Zero as part of your traffic/transport strategy?
Yours faithfully,
Adrian Berendt
Good morning, I apologise I don't think I acknowledged your FOI request as below.
It is in hand and due a response by 27 April.
Regards
Sue Hill
Transportation Support
Team Leader
Infrastructure
Currently working remotely: please email me in the first instance.
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Good afternoon, further to your request for information received on 29 March please find below the material that you asked for.
1. Do you have plans in place to make 20mph the norm or default speed limit for most restricted roads?
There is currently no plan to make 20mph the norm or default speed limit for most restricted roads in the BCP Council area.
2. Have you requested the UK Government to set 20mph as the default speed limit for restricted roads in England?
BCP Council has not requested the UK Government to set 20mph as the default speed limit for restricted roads in England.
3. Are you committed to Vision Zero as part of your traffic/transport strategy?
BCP Council has a Climate Action Strategy 2023 which sets out two Strategic Aims:
Strategic aim 1 - To make BCP Council and its operations carbon neutral by 2030
Strategic aim 2 - To work with the wider community to make the region carbon neutral before the UK target of 2050.
The Council has started work on a refreshed Local Transport Plan that will aim to be in line with national requirements set out in the forthcoming Local Transport Plan guidance soon to be issued by central government. The new Local Transport Plan will be adopted by the end of 2024.
I trust this response is of use and deals with your request satisfactorily.
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Regards
Sue Hill
Transportation Support
Team Leader
Infrastructure
Tel: 01202 817827
Currently working remotely: please email me in the first instance.
[email address]
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Dear PT&E RFI,
Thanks for the response. Answers to questions 1 and 2 are clear. Question 3 was about Vision Zero - no fatal or serious injuries on BCP roads, rather than Net Zero. Could you respond on Vision Zero?
Yours sincerely,
Adrian Berendt
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Dear Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council,
Thanks for your response regarding the questions on 20mph. The third question related to Vision Zero - no deaths or serious injuries on BCP roads - rather than Net Zero - re carbon emissions. Please could you response on Vision Zero?
Yours faithfully,
Adrian Berendt
Dear Mr Berendt
In regard to your further inquiry.
The Council is part of a road safety partnership called Dorset Road Safe (DRS) and more information about that can be found here, including the DRS Strategy document:
https://www.dorsetroadsafe.org.uk/inform...
Within that you will see it is stated that:
"Our vision is to improve road safety by reducing the number of road deaths and serious injuries in Dorset by 40% to 213 KSIs by 2030 compared to the five year baseline for 2015 to 2019 of 355 KSIs with a vision of zero KSIs by 2050."
Kind Regards
Richard
Richard Pearson
BEng (Hons) CEng FICE MCIHT DMS
Transport Network Manager
Infrastructure
[email address]
bcpcouncil.gov.uk
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