At the council cabinet meeting held on 6 September, after an 18 month trial period, the Mayor made the decision to make the boroughwide 20mph speed limit permanent.

Read the Review of boroughwide 20mph limit report that was presented to the cabinet.

The specific decision made was:

1. To agree that the 20mph speed limit Experimental Order is made permanent subject to Leamouth Road and Leamouth Roundabout being omitted from the traffic order and reverting to 30mph.
2. To agree that the roads listed in 5.10* be prioritised for additional traffic calming to reinforce the 20 mph speed limit.
3. To note that further work will continue to review road safety throughout the borough in order to target ongoing traffic calming work to those areas most in need of improvements.
4. To note that further awareness and education programmes will be delivered to build awareness and ownership of the 20 mph limit.

*see LBTH's Review of boroughwide 20mph limit cabinet report.

The main word missing from the decision was enforcement so we'll be following this up with the council and police.