Welby Community Speedwatch

The work to help reduce speeding vehicles in the village has continued unabated, aside from Covid-19 lockdown periods of course!

It is also pleasing to receive support from the local and county police, with a variety of suggestions to attend our village and the possibility of including a contact officer to regularly assist our group. Please see the attached response from Marc Jones the Police & Crime Commissioner for Lincolnshire and also Kerrin Wilson, Assistant Chief Constable.

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Following ongoing concerns from several parishioners in regards to speeding vehicles through our village, Welby Parish Council has liaised with Road Safety Partnership Lincolnshire to set up the new Community Speed Watch Initiative in Welby and purchased the required equipment.

Welby's Community Speed Watch programme commenced in January 2019 being the first group in the Grantham area to operate this programme.

The programme involves volunteers within our community who have kindly donated their time to carry out speed checks in a controlled and authorised manner within Welby throughout the week to make our village a safer place.

The aim of the scheme is for these volunteers to:

undertake high-visibility roadside operations to educate speeding drivers, by displaying their speed on a handheld radar with a view to improving driver behaviour; and
reporting to the Police the details of speeding vehicles in specific areas where speed is of concern. These speed monitoring reports enable the police to send advisory letters to the registered owners. Eventually, if a driver exceeds the speed limit three times, they will be visited by the Police and potentially given points on their licence - these can be a mix of a road-side check in our village, or from another Community Speed Watch check point in Lincolnshire, or from a Police roadside vehicle speed check.
Also the data gathered to inform Police and others on the allocation of resources and general road safety issues.

The Welby Community Speed Watch Coordinator: is Roel van Aken who has generously volunteered both his time and resources to co-ordinate this scheme.

In order to help reduce any speeding vehicles, Welby Parish Council is currently aiming to raise funds from the local community to have a Speed Indicator Device (SID) installed within the village, in order to electronically notify vehicles of their speed through the village, which should be no more than 30mph. Please see the seperate link within this website for more information and to make a donation - thank you.

The Community Speed Watch Coordinator is always on the look out for new volunteers to join their team. The training lasts an hour and takes place locally by the police. Post training, your time commitment does not have to be huge - just one or two road-side sessions a month, for an hour each time, would be greatly appreciated.

If anyone would like to volunteer to help deliver this programme or to contact the team please contact Roel van Aken, Welby Speed Watch Co-ordinator, on 01400 230404 or email: welbyspeedwatch@gmail.com.