Moving Traffic Offences consultation

Overview

We want to hear your views on new powers to enforce moving traffic offences in Buckinghamshire.

Buckinghamshire Council wants to be one of the first English local authorities outside London with powers to enforce moving traffic offences. The benefits of these powers include:

• improve pedestrian and cyclist safety
• reduce congestion
• improve journey times for public transport
• improve safety around schools

These powers can currently only be used by the police but may not be their top priority.

The Department for Transport (DfT) plans to change legislation to enable councils to enforce moving traffic contraventions. This would be done using ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) cameras.

Offences that will be covered are varied and will include:

• ignoring no entry or no turning signs,
• entering yellow box junctions with no clear exit,
• stopping on school keep clears,
• driving where and when motor vehicles are prohibited,
• driving the wrong way up one-way streets or driving on routes for buses and taxis only. 

The new enforcement powers would apply across Buckinghamshire and add to the powers the council already has to address dangerous or illegal parking.

Examining road safety reports and historical data, the council, in collaboration with Thames Valley Police, has created a list of locations that have been identified as areas where these new powers would be useful.

The list of locations is provided below and we would welcome your views before 4 April 2022. Please take a few minutes to read through the information below and respond.

Proposed locations

1. Amersham - Gore Hill - No right turn out of Fieldway on to Gore Hill 
2. Amersham - Whielden Lane A404 - No right turn into Whielden Street 
3. Amersham - Amersham Road (A413) junction with Pipers Wood - No U-turn 
4. Aylesbury - Mandeville Road - No right turn into private road (back of Asda near hospital)
5. Buckingham - High Street at the junction with Moreton Road A413 (running parallel to A422) - No entry
6. Buckingham - Well Street - Environmental weight restriction - Prohibition of goods vehicles exceeding 7.5 T
7. Chalfont St Peter - Oval Way outside Thorpe House School - School keep clear
8. Chesham - High Street - Pedestrian zone - prohibition of motor vehicles except loading for commercial vehicles
9. Gerrards Cross - Packhorse Road junction with Station Road - Entering yellow box junction with no clear exit 
10. High Wycombe - Corporation Street - Prohibition of vehicles except buses and taxis (Hackney carriages only) 
11. High Wycombe - Hamilton Road outside The Royal Grammar School - School keep clear 
12. High Wycombe - Marlow Hill junction with School Close - Entering yellow box junction with no clear exit
13. High Wycombe - Castle Street - No entry except for buses
14. Wexham - Uxbridge Road at the junction with Black Park Road - No U-turn

How to have your say

You can tell us your views in one of the following ways:

• Complete the online survey using the link at the end of the page
• Email us at MTO@buckinghamshire.gov.uk
• Write to us at Moving Traffic Offences Consultation, Parking Services, Buckinghamshire Council, The Gateway, Gatehouse Road, Aylesbury HP19 8FF.

If you have any questions about this consultation, please email us at MTO@buckinghamshire.gov.uk.

Please tell us your views by midnight on Monday 4 April 2022.

What happens next

Responses to this consultation will be considered by Buckinghamshire Council’s Cabinet at its meeting on 10 May 2022.

If Cabinet gives the go-ahead, we plan to apply for these enforcement powers to the Department for Transport (DfT) later in May 2022.

If awarded the powers, we expect to be able to introduce them later in 2022. 

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