On Monday (January 19), Cllr Claire Dowling, East Sussex County Council’s lead member for transport, is set to consider a petition calling for “traffic calming measures” in The Village — a residential road surrounding the Meads Village Allotments.
In a report to Cllr Dowling, officers said the petition was prompted by residents’ concerns around “excessive speeding of vehicles using the road as a route to avoid traffic on Meads Street.”
But officers have concluded the road would not meet the council’s criteria for intervention.
The report reads: “The county council has a limited amount of funding available to develop local transport improvements and needs to ensure that resources are allocated to those schemes which will be of greatest benefit to our local communities.
“To help prioritise the number of requests received for improvements, an assessment process has been developed to determine which schemes should be funded through the Local Transport Improvement programme.
“The request for traffic calming measures to be introduced around The Village, Eastbourne has been assessed through the approved prioritisation process but has not met the necessary benchmark score to be considered for inclusion in the East Sussex County Council annual capital programme for local transport improvements for 2026/27.
“The request will however remain on the list of schemes for potential progression should other funding sources become available in the future.”
In coming to this conclusion, they note how crash data supplied by Sussex Police shows there have been no personal injury crashes on the road within the past three years (as of September).
Officers also say The Village has residential parking bays on alternating sides along the length of the road, which they say “provides an unofficial traffic calming system as road users need to slow down to navigate around [the parked vehicles].”
Officers recommend the petitioners be advised to look into the formation of a Community Speedwatch group.
They say these allow concerned residents to carry out speed checks, which can then be shared with Sussex Police in order to help target enforcement efforts.
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