VOTE Lower speed limit for Littlehampton roads

Beach ward town councillors have agreed to spend their area’s allocation of £500 for specific projects on the signs, as the first step towards bidding for a lower legal speed limit on the roads.

Dr James Walsh, Liberal Democrat councillor for Beach ward on the town council, gave details of the moves to reduce speeds in urban areas at the annual town meeting.

He was responding to a call from Jeannie Millington, of River Road, for a 20 miles per hour maximum on roads where the limit is currently 30.

“It could be a real feather in our cap to have somewhere that is much safer to walk and cycle,” said Mrs Millington.

Dr Walsh, who is also chairman of the transport sub-committee of the county council’s East Arun Area Committee, said details of the advisory signs had been given to a meeting of the sub-committee that morning, “as a precursor to, hopefully making some ot these roads 20 miles per hour limits”.

However, the problem with 20 miles per hour limits, said Dr Walsh, was they had to go through a system of traffic orders, which were expensive and could take two years.

Advisory signs, he added, had been shown to work in more residential streets.