Speed limit on Pinchbeck road to be lowered

A stretch of road where a meeting was told ‘miscreants’ are regularly seen speeding is to have the limit lowered.

Lincolnshire County Council is looking at extending the 30mph limit of Mill Green in Pinchbeck further south.

A consultation is to be launched on the proposal after the authority’s Planning and Regulation Committee gave its approval at a meeting on Monday (April 11).

The 30mph zone would start south of the junction with Fengate Road and continue for a portion along that road too to outside Mill Green Nurseries.

The stretch is currently 40mph with there having been one reported injury there over the last five years.

County council officers though say that the road is now more built up with homes than when the speed limit was originally introduced.

Coun Angela Newton told the meeting: “It borders my ward. It’s a very busy road and I know there are several miscreants. You see them daily.”

Lincolnshire County Council carried out speed surveys in the area and decided that Mill Green was a ‘borderline case to be lowered.’

Councillors though unanimously voted it through.

The authority’s Jeanne Gibson told the planning meeting: “We’ve assessed this under the criteria and the mean speed of traffic comes in at 36mph. This renders it a borderline case.

“We seek to carry out consultation to make it a 30mph limit.”