Issue - meetings

This report provides background information on the current national speed limit on Blackwater Valley Road and slip roads around the Runfold Diversion roundabout in Tongham. The current speed limit on the above road and slip roads is a national speed limit which is proposed to be reduced to 40mph to improve road safety.

The Guildford Joint Committee agreed:

(i)    A reduction of the current national speed limit to a 40mph speed limit on a section of Blackwater Valley Road and the surrounding slip roads approaching the roundabout, where indicated on the attached plan.

(ii)    To promote a traffic regulation order for the introduction of the 40mph speed limit.

Reasons for recommendations:

To allow for the ongoing increase in economic prosperity of the region by providing increased capacity and safer roads for all users and to allow the government’s house building requirements to be met by the borough and district councils.

Declarations of Interest: None

Officers attending: Bahram Assadi, Traffic Engineer, Surrey County Council

Petitions, Public Questions, Statements:

The chairman stated that this item was being taken as an urgent item under Section 100(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972. This was because the next opportunity to discuss it would be at the March 2021 formal meeting and the works in question need to have been carried out by then due to the time-limited nature of the LEP funding and to provide a safer working environment for the workforce.

Member Discussion – key points:

The proposed scheme was welcomed by members.

Resolved:

The Guildford Joint Committee AGREED:

(i)    A reduction of the current national speed limit to a 40mph speed limit on a section of Blackwater Valley Road and the surrounding slip roads approaching the roundabout, where indicated on the attached plan.

(ii)    To promote a traffic regulation order for the introduction of the 40mph speed limit.

Reasons for recommendations:

To allow for the ongoing increase in economic prosperity of the region by providing increased capacity and safer roads for all users and to allow the government’s house building requirements to be met by the borough and district councils.