Speed surveys for residents’ associations
When a group of residents wants something firmer than a set of personal accounts.
Residents notice the vehicles that felt too fast. An association can collect those accounts, and they show how strongly people feel. They do not, on their own, tell a council how the traffic as a whole was behaving. A speed survey is a way to add that measurement.
Commissioning it yourselves
A residents’ association, a community group or an individual resident can commission a survey directly. You do not have to wait for the parish council to be the client, though many groups then share the report with the council. The parish council page describes how councils use the same kind of report.
What we need is the road, the postcode or location, and a description of the concern, including any time of day that matters. The quote form asks for those.
What you should not have to do
Standing at the kerb with a private device, trying to build a case vehicle by vehicle, is a poor substitute for a survey. It is difficult to do safely, difficult to do consistently, and difficult for anyone else to assess. Collecting this kind of evidence is surveying work: a safe position, a defined period, and analysis afterwards. That is the work KerbSight does.
What the report will and will not say
It will say what was measured. It will not say that a particular driver committed an offence, and it will not ask the police to prosecute anyone. KerbSight does not carry out enforcement. A residents’ group can still use the report to show the council or the highway authority what the speeds were, which is a more precise conversation than a bundle of complaints.
If the association also needs to know how many vehicles use the road, ask for a traffic count as well.