Back in 2011, Lancashire County Council brought in 20mph limits – at a reported cost of £9m – on what it described as “main residential areas and outside schools”
Councillors have clashed over a declaration that Lancashire will not be introducing “blanket” 20mph speed limits – with some claiming that they already exist, but are not enforced.
At a meeting of Lancashire County Council, Tory cabinet member for highways and transport Rupert Swarbrick was asked whether he and the authority supported existing 20mph limits in Lancashire and “extending these where required”. While County Cllr Swarbrick’s response – to a question from Labour’s Kim Snape – was initially a simple “yes”, he later clarified that that did not mean a Wales-type change was on the cards in the county.
“Lancashire County Council did not implement blanket 20 mph zones, they were 20mph areas – they were in residential areas only, not on commuter routes. The final decision was given to the county councillor for each area if the road or street could have fallen into both camps. On the issue of enforcement, she added: “Lancashire County Council spent £9m knowing that this could not be enforced because we didn’t have the technology or the legal right to impose 20 mph on the roads, because it hadn’t gone through Parliament.” Liberal Democrat group leader David Howarth said he still had a copy of a letter from Lancashire Police stating that the force did not intend to enforce the lower limit.
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