The formal notification order for the scheme (Traffic Regulation Order) will be advertised in Hutton from the week beginning Monday 22 July for three weeks.
The scheme will be the 28th 20mph scheme since 2000 with recent zones including Wrington, Uphill, Nailsea, Clevedon (The Beach / Hill Road area), Weston (Baker Street) and Pill and Easton-in-Gordano.
A further scheme is also planned for Kenn Street, Kenn following consultation with residents this summer.
The 20mph zones support the council’s commitment to be carbon neutral by 2030 by providing sustainable travel routes across the area to offer health and wellbeing benefits to residents and encourage more cycling and walking, as well as reducing car travel.
The Hutton zone aims to provide safer routes for walking, cycling and horse riding through the village with the introduction of 20mph limits (signs and lines) and a 20mph zone using traffic calming measures.
The scheme will also:
A public consultation on the 20mph scheme was held in October 2023 and included a drop-in session and an online questionnaire. Of the responses, 80 per cent were in favour of its introduction.
We are delighted to be introducing a 20mph zone in Hutton that will provide a safer environment for people to move around the village on foot, wheel or horse.
Cllr Hannah Young, North Somerset Council’s executive member with responsibility for active travel
We have consulted with Hutton Parish Council, local ward members and community organisations including the school and residents, and there is huge community support for this project.
We look forward to its completion and the positive impact it will have on the community as a whole.
We are pleased this scheme is finally coming to fruition as this will help to make Hutton safer for pedestrians and horse riders as many drivers dangerously race through the village.
Cllrs Mike Solomon and Terry Porter, ward members for Hutton and Locking
We will still be pushing to extend this scheme coming into and leaving the village.
The scheme is set to be completed by October.
Residents in Temple Cloud are being asked to share their views on proposals to reduce the speed of traffic through the village and encourage active travel.
North Somerset Council is inviting everyone who lives, works, or studies in, or regularly visits the area to take part in a new Transport and Travel Survey this summer.
Helen Godwin, the new Mayor of the West of England, has today joined a coalition of eleven of England’s regional Mayors to sign up to an ambitious joint statement pledging to create a new national walking, wheeling and cycling network, enabling millions more happy, healthy and green journeys.
Bath & North East Somerset Council is proposing to make permanent a through traffic restriction in Sydney Road, Bath following a six-month experimental trial.
Construction work, to prevent flooding and improve walking and cycling routes on a stretch of Whiteladies Road between its junctions with Tyndalls Park Road/St Pauls Road and Queens Road, will start on Monday 14 July 2025.
