Decision details

Dorset Council 20mph speed limit process and Guidance

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

A report setting out the council’s approach to 20mph speed limits.

Decision:

(a)           That the policy for setting the principles, criteria, and process for 20mph schemes, as amended below, be approved.

 

“That the wording in Appendix B, relating to the requirement to undertake a survey of residents and the requirement to have a threshold level of support of 60% from the respondents of households affected by the proposed 20mph scheme, should be removed, and changed to ‘must be able to demonstrate and quantify community support for the initiative’, to be in line with the wording of ‘criteria c’”

 

(b)           That the policy be reviewed 1 year after adoption.

 

Reason for decision

 

To ensure speed limit consistency across Dorset.

 

Report author: Wayne Sayers

Publication date: 02/11/2022

Date of decision: 01/11/2022

Decided at meeting: 01/11/2022 - Cabinet

Effective from: 10/11/2022

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