Agenda item

This council meeting notes that:

 

·         responsibility for installing and managing speed cameras in our area lies with the Greater Manchester Safer Roads Partnership, a joint body of Transport for Greater Manchester as our local traffic authority and Greater Manchester Police;

·         the current guidelines for speed cameras to improve road safety for our residents are over 15 years old; and

·         they require that there must be at least three deaths or serious injuries to occur within a three year period before the installation of speed cameras can be considered.

 

This council meeting further notes that correspondence with ministers at the Department for Transport has revealed that:

 

·         the guidance relating to speed cameras is currently under review;

·         it is advisory only;  and

·         local areas are free to set their own deployment criteria.

 

This council meeting believes that: 

 

·         the criteria contained in the current guidelines and adopted by the GM Safer Roads Partnership are unacceptable and require far too high a price to be paid in terms of harm before speed cameras are considered and installed;

·         the current “Community Concern location” mechanism offered by the GM Safer Roads Partnership for handling sites which do not meet the current criteria is not adequate in many cases; and

·         the overview and scrutiny of the GM Safer Roads Partnership is currently unclear.

 

This council meeting therefore resolves:

 

·         to call upon the Greater Manchester Safer Roads Partnership urgently to review their current approach to the deployment of speed cameras and to adopt new criteria which do not require deaths or significant harm to occur first;

·         to offer Stockport Borough as a trial location for such new criteria, if trials are deemed necessary; and

·         to engage with local members to gain a better understanding of speeding hot-spots which cause concern to residents but which, through good fortune, have not reached a level that would enable speed cameras to be installed under the current criteria but for which a Community Concern location listing would be inadequate; and

·         to ask GMCA to review the overview and scrutiny of the GM Safer Roads Partnership to ensure democratic accountability.

 

Moved by:                  Councillor Lisa Smart

 

Seconded by:           Councillor Amanda Peers

MOVED AND SECONDED - This council meeting notes that:

 

·         responsibility for installing and managing speed cameras in our area lies with the Greater Manchester Safer Roads Partnership, a joint body of Transport for Greater Manchester as our local traffic authority and Greater Manchester Police;

·         the current guidelines for speed cameras to improve road safety for our residents are over 15 years old; and

·         they require that there must be at least three deaths or serious injuries to occur within a three year period before the installation of speed cameras can be considered.

 

This council meeting further notes that correspondence with ministers at the Department for Transport has revealed that:

 

·         the guidance relating to speed cameras is currently under review;

·         it is advisory only;  and

·         local areas are free to set their own deployment criteria.

 

This council meeting believes that:

 

·         the criteria contained in the current guidelines and adopted by the GM Safer Roads Partnership are unacceptable and require far too high a price to be paid in terms of harm before speed cameras are considered and installed;

·         the current “Community Concern location” mechanism offered by the GM Safer Roads Partnership for handling sites which do not meet the current criteria is not adequate in many cases; and

·         the overview and scrutiny of the GM Safer Roads Partnership is currently unclear.

 

This council meeting therefore resolves:

 

·         to call upon the Greater Manchester Safer Roads Partnership urgently to review their current approach to the deployment of speed cameras and to adopt new criteria which do not require deaths or significant harm to occur first;

·         to offer Stockport Borough as a trial location for such new criteria, if trials are deemed necessary; and

·         to engage with local members to gain a better understanding of speeding hot-spots which cause concern to residents but which, through good fortune, have not reached a level that would enable speed cameras to be installed under the current criteria but for which a Community Concern location listing would be inadequate; and

·         to ask GMCA to review the overview and scrutiny of the GM Safer Roads Partnership to ensure democratic accountability.

 

AMENDMENT MOVED AND SECONDED - This council meeting notes that:

 

·         responsibility for installing and managing speed cameras in our area lies with the Greater Manchester Safer Roads Partnership, a joint body of Transport for Greater Manchester as our local traffic authority and Greater Manchester Police;

·         the current guidelines for speed cameras to improve road safety for our residents are over 15 years old; and

·         they require that there must be at least three deaths or serious injuries to occur within a three year period before the installation of speed cameras can be considered.

 

This Council Meeting also notes:

 

·         Speed indicator devices (SIDs) can play a useful role as part of an effective speed management strategy, alongside other deterrents and penalties like speed cameras;

 

This council meeting further notes that correspondence with ministers at the Department for Transport has revealed that:

 

·         the guidance relating to speed cameras is currently under review;

·         it is advisory only;  and

·         local areas are free to set their own deployment criteria.

 

This council meeting believes that:

 

·         the criteria contained in the current guidelines and adopted by the GM Safer Roads Partnership are unacceptable and require far too high a price to be paid in terms of harm before speed cameras are considered and installed;

·         the current “Community Concern location” mechanism offered by the GM Safer Roads Partnership for handling sites which do not meet the current criteria is not adequate in many cases; and

·         the overview and scrutiny of the GM Safer Roads Partnership is currently unclear.

 

This council meeting therefore resolves:

 

·         to call upon the Greater Manchester Safer Roads Partnership urgently to review their current approach to the deployment of speed cameras and to adopt new criteria which do not require deaths or significant harm to occur first;

·         to offer Stockport Borough as a trial location for such new criteria, if trials are deemed necessary; and

·         to engage with local members to gain a better understanding of speeding hot-spots which cause concern to residents but which, through good fortune, have not reached a level that would enable speed cameras to be installed under the current criteria but for which a Community Concern location listing would be inadequate; and

·         to ask GMCA to review the overview and scrutiny of the GM Safer Roads Partnership to ensure democratic accountability.

 

This council meeting further resolves to;

 

·         request the Cabinet Member (Sustainable Stockport) ensure as soon as possible that each ward has at least one SIDS device to place at hot-spots until at least such time as new local deployment criteria are established for Stockport Borough and/ or a speed camera can be installed.

 

AMENDMENT CARRIED

 

It was then

 

RESOLVED - This council meeting notes that:

 

·         responsibility for installing and managing speed cameras in our area lies with the Greater Manchester Safer Roads Partnership, a joint body of Transport for Greater Manchester as our local traffic authority and Greater Manchester Police;

·         the current guidelines for speed cameras to improve road safety for our residents are over 15 years old; and

·         they require that there must be at least three deaths or serious injuries to occur within a three year period before the installation of speed cameras can be considered.

 

This Council Meeting also notes:

 

·         Speed indicator devices (SIDs) can play a useful role as part of an effective speed management strategy, alongside other deterrents and penalties like speed cameras;

 

This council meeting further notes that correspondence with ministers at the Department for Transport has revealed that:

 

·         the guidance relating to speed cameras is currently under review;

·         it is advisory only;  and

·         local areas are free to set their own deployment criteria.

 

This council meeting believes that:

 

·         the criteria contained in the current guidelines and adopted by the GM Safer Roads Partnership are unacceptable and require far too high a price to be paid in terms of harm before speed cameras are considered and installed;

·         the current “Community Concern location” mechanism offered by the GM Safer Roads Partnership for handling sites which do not meet the current criteria is not adequate in many cases; and

·         the overview and scrutiny of the GM Safer Roads Partnership is currently unclear.

 

This council meeting therefore resolves:

 

·         to call upon the Greater Manchester Safer Roads Partnership urgently to review their current approach to the deployment of speed cameras and to adopt new criteria which do not require deaths or significant harm to occur first;

·         to offer Stockport Borough as a trial location for such new criteria, if trials are deemed necessary; and

·         to engage with local members to gain a better understanding of speeding hot-spots which cause concern to residents but which, through good fortune, have not reached a level that would enable speed cameras to be installed under the current criteria but for which a Community Concern location listing would be inadequate; and

·         to ask GMCA to review the overview and scrutiny of the GM Safer Roads Partnership to ensure democratic accountability.

 

This council meeting further resolves to;

 

·         request the Cabinet Member (Sustainable Stockport) ensure as soon as possible that each ward has at least one SIDS device to place at hot-spots until at least such time as new local deployment criteria are established for Stockport Borough and/ or a speed camera can be installed.