Speed restrictions set for Skenfrith

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

RESIDENTS OF SKENFRITH are to get a long-awaited speed restriction after Monmouthshire County Council has proposed scheduling a 30mph limit through the village.
For some years now there has been the anomaly of speed camera signs at the approaches to the villages, but without an enforced 30mph limit, the cars and motorbikes were within the law to take the dangerous bends at 60 mph, the national speed limit on single carriageways set since 1977.
In 1999, Local Authorities were given the powers to introduce a 20mph speed limit without requiring a consent from the Secretary of State. The local Community Council has long requested speed restrictions in the area, but have been thwarted by Monmouthshire County Council’s ideas of where speed restrictions should be.
“We are currently pressing the council for a speed limit for the local school at Cross Ash and have been for many years receiving letters from residents asking why there is no restriction through their village, when there has been one set at Newcastle by the previous Labour administration” said Roy Nicholas, Clerk to Llangattock Vibon-Avel Community Council. “We welcome this at Skenfrith and hope attentions will now turn to Cross Ash.

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