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Woburn Sands Councillor backs residents demands for an extended 20 MPH zone in Downham Road

Cllr David Hopkins, who’s Danesborough and Walton Ward includes the town of Woburn Sands will be presenting a resident’s petition signed by over 100 local residents to MKCC Full Council meeting on 14 June calling for a 20 MPH zone to be installed covering the Downham Road area of the town.

The signatures have been collected by local residents and passed to Cllr Hopkins for presentation at the MK City Council meeting.


Cllr Hopkins reports that ‘In a recent survey of local people in Woburn Sands, 82% of those who responded supported a uniform reduction of the speed limit to 20MPH across the whole of the town’.


The petition is signed by over 100 Downham Road residents concerned that Downham Road remains the only major artery in the town not to enjoy the benefit of a 20 MPH restriction despite being a well-used rat run by drivers avoiding the congestion at the Aspley Hill and High Street junction.


Cllr Hopkins continues; ‘Reducing the speed limit from 30MPH to 20MPH on this busyresidential street would benefit all residents of Woburn Sands and its neighbouring communities through…


1. Making these roads less attractive to speeding through traffic and rat runners, decreasing traffic volumes

2. Increasing road safety for all, encouraging cyclists back onto the roads andchildren to all or cycle to local school with knock on positive health consequences for all

• Reducing air pollution locally

• Reducing the stressful local disruption and traffic noise

• Leading to a more pleasant, healthy, and less stressful living environment in Woburn Sand and thus

- Attracting visitors in to use local facilities including shops, cafes, restaurants, the library, and other businesses

- Encouraging people to leave their cars at home and walk or cycle

- Improving community cohesion and opening up safer links between the built up and rural (Greensands Ridge) parts of the Parish

- And encouraging nature networks and increasing biodiversity in the town’


1. Public Health England. Reducing unintentional injuries on the roads among children and young people under 25 years. 2018.

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