Traffic camera enforcement consultation Weybridge

Overview

Thank you for coming to our online consultaion survey to tell us your thoughts on our HGV weight restriction enforcement cameras.

We strongly recommend that you read this page before answering the survey.

We will consider all the comments that we receive about these proposals before making a final decision about how to proceed, after which we will publish a summary of the comments and the outcomes on our website.

Please note that we will not be looking at these responses in detail until after the deadline for making comments has passed, so please do not include questions or queries in your response.

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Completing the questionaire should take no more than 5 minutes.

HGV weight restriction traffic camera enforcement consultation – Weybridge

The Department for Transport (DfT) now allows local authorities outside of London to carry out moving traffic enforcement under Part 6 of the Traffic Management Act 2004.

Surrey County Council intend to carry out camera enforcement of the heavy goods vehicle weight restrictions in Weybridge. We are starting a six- week consultation from early April 2025 to ask for your opinion about these proposals.

Enforcement of the heavy goods vehicle weight (HGV) restrictions in the area outlined in this consultation will help us manage traffic on the highway network and prevent unauthorised vehicles from using these routes.

Background and Legislation

In 2022, the Department of Transport designated the county of Surrey as a civil enforcement area for moving traffic contraventions.

This means traffic enforcement cameras can be used to enforce a variety of highway restrictions on Surrey roads to help improve safety and reduce congestion.

What are moving traffic restrictions and how are they enforced

Moving traffic restrictions are designated by traffic signs and road markings, such as driving through an HGV weight restriction, in a bus lane, making banned turns, stopping in yellow box junctions, driving the wrong way down one-way streets and driving in recognised cycle lanes.

Please do look at the list of the traffic signs which are subject to civil enforcement (PDF).

Currently, we are only looking to carry out camera enforcement of HGV weight restriction contraventions (therefore deter unauthorised vehicles from driving through the restricted routes) in Weybridge.

Why we want to enforce these HGV weight restrictions in Surrey

Specifically, traffic enforcement cameras provide an option to make travel and transportation schemes more effective and could be a key tool in helping deliver transportation and environmental objectives to reduce congestion and improve facilities for buses, cycles and pedestrians, particularly vulnerable road users.

We have carried out an HGV watch scheme in Weybridge, the scheme worked in that volunteers monitored HGV traffic in areas where restrictions are in place. They upload photographs of vehicles considered to be in contravention of the restriction to the SCC website where our HGV Watch Co-ordinator reviewed the information and contacted the HGV owner/operator with a ‘warning letter’. While the results showed there was a reduction in the number of HGV’s, we have decided the support of an enforcement camera (ANPR vehicle/Fixed) would prevent any further contraventions, we should see a significant reduction in the number of contravening HGV’s and improve compliance.

The proposed area

Brooklands Road (B374) from its junction with Wellington Way (D3912) to its junction with Heath Road (B374) and Hanger Hill (B373), Heath Road (B374), Church Street (B374) from Heath Road (B374) to its junction with Balfour Road (A317), Hanger Hill (B373), St Georges Avenue (B372), Egerton Road (D3907), Gower Road (D3905), Cavendish Road (D3908), Old Avenue (D3910) and Ellesmere Road(D3906) Weybridge.

A map of the routes can be accessed using the link below.

Weybridge 18T weight restriction map (PDF)

Why we selected these locations

These locations were chosen for camera enforcement because vehicles regularly drive through the HGV weight restrictions when they should not to avoid the traffic queues and alternate routes to travel around Weybridge.

What this means for you

We are not proposing to add any additional moving traffic restrictions to those that are already in place, and drivers that continue to comply with the HGV restrictions at each location will not be at risk of enforcement action.

The DfT stipulate that warning notices must be sent to motorists who commit an offence for the first time, for a period of six months from the installation of a camera. Subsequent offences by the same vehicle/keeper would receive a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN), which is to be set at £70 (reduced to £35 if paid early).

Have your say

We would like to hear your views about the proposed traffic camera enforcement for the HGV weight restrictions in Weybridge, in case there is anything unforeseen that would not make these suitable locations for camera enforcement. The consultation will run from Monday 7 April 2025 to Monday 19 May 2025.

Why your views matter

This questionaire will give you an opportunity to let us know what you think about our plans to apply HGV weight restriction enforcement cameras in Weybridge

What happens next

We will await all response by the deadline indicated and look at your feeback to publish a summary of comments on our website.