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Report to:
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Lead Member for
Transport and Environment
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Date of
meeting:
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27 January
2025
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By:
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Director of
Communities, Economy and Transport
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Title:
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Petition:
Installation of a
speed camera in Upperton Road, Eastbourne
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Purpose:
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To
consider a petition to install a speed
camera in the vicinity of the zebra crossing in Upperton Road, to
monitor traffic travelling towards the town centre
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RECOMMENDATIONS: The
Lead Member is recommended to advise the petitioners
that:
(1)
The area in the
vicinity of the zebra crossing on Upperton Road does not meet the
Sussex Safer Roads Partnership criteria for a speed camera;
and
(2)
The existing speed
camera further along Upperton Road, near the Goffs is due to be
replaced in 2025.
1
Background Information
1.1.
At the County Council meeting on 8 October 2024, a petition was
presented to the Chairman by Councillor Rodohan. The petitioners
are requesting a speed camera in the vicinity of the zebra crossing
on Upperton Road.
1.2.
Standing Orders provide that where the Chairman considers it
appropriate, petitions are considered by the relevant Committee or
Lead Member and a spokesperson for the petitioners is invited to
address the Committee. The Chairman has referred this petition to
the Lead Member for Transport and Environment. A copy of the
petition is available in the Members’ Room.
2
Supporting Information
2.1 Upperton Road is subject to
a 30mph speed limit by virtue of the presence of streetlights. A
plan of the road showing the position of the zebra crossing is
shown in Appendix 1 along with photographs of the site in both
directions.
2.2
The use of safety cameras is controlled by the Sussex Safer Roads
Partnership (SSRP). There is strict national guidance on the use of
cameras that ensures they are only used to improve road safety and
not as a way of raising extra revenue.
2.3
Sites where there have been crashes involving excessive speed are
considered for speed cameras.
2.4
The crash data provided by Sussex Police, for the roads identified
by the petitioners, indicates that there has been one fatality at
the crossing and one crash involving a slight injury 60 metres to
the north of the crossing in the latest 3-year period up to 31
October 2024. A plan showing the location of these crashes can be
found at Appendix 2.
2.5
The Road Safety Team routinely engage with Sussex Police following
crashes that result in a fatality or serious injury to discuss the
full details of the crash, consider if there were any highway
related causation factors and ensure appropriate action is taken if
required. There were no highway related causation factors
identified in the circumstances surrounding the fatal crash that
occurred at the site in 2023.
2.6
The site has been assessed against the criteria for a speed camera.
The crash history and the causation factors of these crashes at the
site for the previous 3-year period mean that the threshold for a
speed camera to be considered has not been met.
3 Conclusion
and Reasons for Recommendations
3.1
It is therefore recommended that the
Lead Member advises the petitioners that a speed camera does not
meet the requirements set out by the SSRP for the provision of a
speed camera.
3.2
Petitioners should also be informed that the existing damaged speed
camera on Upperton Road will be replaced, and the SSRP are
considering the use of mobile enforcement to provide a form of
visibility in the interim.
Director of Communities, Economy
and Transport
Contact Officer: Jo
Reed
Tel. No. 01273 482951
Email: jo.reed@eastsussex.gov.uk
LOCAL
MEMBERS
Councillor Pat
Rodohan
Councillor John
Ungar
BACKGROUND
DOCUMENTS
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