Speed surveys for parish and town councils
A report a council can read, minute, and send on. Not an enforcement exercise.
Parish and town councils are often the first place residents take a speeding concern. The council can see that people are worried. It is harder, from the correspondence alone, to say how fast the traffic was, at what time, and in which direction. A vehicle speed survey is commissioned to answer that.
What the council usually needs
A paper the committee can follow. Where the surveyor stood, which hours were covered, the posted limit, the 85th percentile, the average, and the share of vehicles at or below the limit. Written so that a clerk can attach it to a minute and a councillor can explain it. That is the report KerbSight provides. The detail of the method is on the methodology page, and the shape of the document is on the sample report, which uses demonstration data only.
What to tell us
- The road and the parish, and a postcode or a clear description of the point
- The concern: speed, a particular time of day, or both
- The posted limit, if you know it
- Whether you also need a count or a pedestrian survey
- Any date the council is working towards
You do not need to specify the statistical method. Say what the council is trying to understand. We will propose a duration and a survey point when we quote.
What the report can and cannot do
It can give the council an independent account to send to the highway authority, or to use when deciding whether to ask for a change on the road. It cannot require that authority to act, and it is not evidence the police would use to prosecute a driver. KerbSight does not carry out enforcement. Councils that need a repeat survey, for example after a change, can commission the same stretch again so the two reports can be compared.
Schools in the parish often share the same road. There is a separate note on surveys near schools, and on surveys for residents’ associations where the council is not the client.