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Speed Camera Locations

  • Silver Street: October 2023

Midsomer Norton Town Council own vehicle activated sign which is currently in Silver Street in order to gather some data about traffic speeds and volume in the area of the new primary school and housing. We will leave the camera in situ for approximately six weeks (the life span of the battery) when it will be across to the other side of Silver Street to capture traffic moving in the opposite direction. The Town Council can then share their data with the public, B&NES Highways and the local police.

  • The Town Council can represent the concerns of residents to both B&NES Council and Police but have no power to change or enforce speed limits.
  • B&NES Council are responsible for the highway including road surface, road markings and speed limits.
  • B&NES Councillors again have no power to enforce but can lobby for a change to speed limits, road improvements and coordinate activities between the various organisations to find solutions.
  • The Police are responsible for enforcing the speed limits and highways law. The level of Police resource allocated is dependent on statistics so the more residents report each issue the more resource we are likely to receive. B&NES Council also use these Police statistics to identify accident hot spots.
  • If residents are keen to help out with a community speed watch site they should speak to the local beat manager at Radstock police station as this is a police initiative.

The Town Warden regularly checks that the VAS unit is working. It doesn’t register any speed under 27 mph, displays a smiley face for speeds between 27mph and 30mph and an unhappy face for speeds above 30mph. This means that we get occasional reports that it is not working from people travelling under the speed limit.