Issue - meetings

This reports updates the Committee on progress of the actions taken following the response provided to the July 2011 Cabinet to recommendations set out in the Scrutiny Panel report on introducing a 20mph limit in the borough.

The Committee received an update from Joan Hancox on the review update of the 20mph speed limit.  There was not a great deal to update the Committee – the main recommendation on the original report had not been agreed by Cabinet.

NOTED:

·                    Road safety measures were still being implemented to reduce speed on residential roads.

·                    The £3.2m was an estimated based on implementing the limit where it was not already in place – it was not for a wide range of physical measures.

·                    With regards to comparisons against other boroughs, Hackney and Islington already had significant areas (approximately 75%) of the borough under 20mph limits prior to a roll out.  Haringey only had 35% of the roads covered by a 20mph limit, hence the higher cost to introduce it across the remaining 65%.

·                    The majority of accidents were on A and B roads and not residential roads.  Therefore a 20mph limit of side roads would not address the majority of accident rates.

Councillor McNamara suggested that it might be appropriate for the Environment and Housing Scrutiny Panel to carry out further work on this issue.