No extra enforcement plan for village's 20mph limit

15 October 2025

Phil Shepka,Cambridgeshire political reporterand

Tom Jackson,Cambridgeshire

News image — Rupert Pearce-Gould said Harston had been consulted on the 20mph limit plans

Tom Jackson/BBC Rupert Pearce-Gould smiling into camera next to a road in Harston with a school 20mph limit in the background. He has grey hair swept to the side, a goatee beard, is wearing a brown jacket, navy jumper and turquoise shirt. — Rupert Pearce-Gould said Harston had been consulted on the 20mph limit plans

A village where 20mph limits are proposed has no plans for further enforcement measures such as more signage, according to the chairman of the parish council.

Harston is one of 11 Cambridgeshire villages which county councillors have unanimously approved to have 20mph-limit schemes at a total cost of £176,000 across the county.

The county council said the schemes aimed to make streets safer and encourage active travel.

Asked about how it will be enforced, Harston Parish Council's Rupert Pearce-Gould said "most of the people are law-abiding and therefore we don't feel we've got to actually put anything up".

He said the village, which has the A10 running through its middle, already has speed indicator displays at the roadside.

"I think we like to rely on human nature but if people are caught speeding or involved in an accident then there'll obviously be a further investigation," he said.

Mr Pearce-Gould alluded to one of the roads, Button End, where he said: "People go amazingly fast down there and we think it's a good culture to actually recognise the whole village outside the A10 is a 20mph zone."

Cambridgeshire County Council's highways and transport committee approved 11 projects, mostly in south Cambridgeshire, out of 95 applicants, to be designed and delivered.

Alex Beckett smiling and looking into the camera in front of houses in Cambridge. He has short blonde hair and beard and is wearing a navy jacket with a white shirt and yellow pocket square. — Alex Beckett said 20mph limits were "relatively cheap" compared to other interventions

The committee's Liberal Democrat chairman, Alex Beckett, said the cost to implement 20mph schemes across all the applications would be nearly £1.5m.

"That's actually really relatively cheap compared to a lot of the interventions we do," he said.

"I personally would support increasing the available funding... because these are clearly very much wanted by communities and have such a good impact on safety."

The villages which have had 20mph schemes approved are: