CORNWALL Council has set up a web page where all the updates on the 20mph speed limit project for safer towns and communities – dubbed ‘20’s plenty’ – will be posted.

The initiative is part of the council’s ‘Living Streets’ initiative outlined by Councillor Philip Desmonde, Cornwall Council Portfolio Holder for Transport, to Saltash Town Council towards the end of last year.

Phase 1 of the area wide 20mph application will be in Camelford and in Falmouth and Penryn. The council will review all existing 30mph speed limits, with the plan for these to become 20mph. 

The following local areas have 30mph speed limits and form part of phase 1: Camelford, St Breward, St Teath, Delabole, Tintagel Forrabury and Minster, Warbstow, Tresmeer, St Juliot and Otterham.

The authority says: “We selected these community network areas for many reasons. This includes (but are not limited to):

• Deliverability within required timescales;

• Building on existing or advancing 20mph provision, closing gaps;

• Mix of built up areas, towns and rural villages, providing optimal monitoring opportunities;

• Synergy with other investment.”

Under the heading ‘Other Committed 20mph schemes’, some projects in the South East Cornwall area are said to be ‘advancing’, with three of then in a Community Network Area given the title of ‘Cornwall Gateway’.

Progress in part of this Cornwall Gateway area, which includes in the parish of Botus Fleming a 20mph speed limit and traffic calming in Vollards Lane, Hatt, and in Saltash a 20mph speed limit and traffic calming in Old Ferry Road and Tamar Street, is said to be in the process of ‘programming’. However, in another part of Saltash – a 20mph speed limit in Bakers Hill and Burraton Coombe – preliminary design work is said to be now under way.

Elsewhere, in the Liskeard and Looe area a 20mph speed limit zone around St Neot School is described as being in the process of construction, while in the Tywardreath and Par area a 20mph scheme for Tywardreath is said to be at the ‘preliminary design’ stage.

Also at the ‘preliminary design’ stage is a ‘part-time advisory with traffic calming’ scheme around South Petherwin School on the outskirts of Launceston.