Various roads in Wingham, Dover - Speed limit order

Consultation has concluded

The effect of this made Order will be to reduce the existing 30MPH speed limit to 20MPH speed limit on the following length of roads in Wingham, Dover.

For their entire length:

College Road
Court Cottages Lane
Edmund Street
Harris's Alley
Miles Court
Miller Close
North Court Close
North Court Road
Orchard Close
Oxenden Crescent
Palmer Road
School Lane
South Court Drive
St. Marys Meadow
Sweetlove Place
Canterbury Road
High Street
Staple Road


Also, to change the existing 30MPH speed limit on Canterbury Road - from the western property boundary of Bridge House for a distance of 285 metres in a westerly direction.

And, to reduce the existing National Speed Limit to 30MPH on:

  • Adisham Road - from its junction with High Street for a distance of 80 metres in a southerly direction.
  • Preston Road – from its junction with Preston Hill for a distance of 400 metres in a north easterly direction.
  • Staple Road – from its junction with Miller Close for a distance of 192 metres in an easterly direction.

This order is being made for the following reasons:

  • avoid the danger to persons or other traffic using the road or any other road or for preventing the likelihood of any such danger arising.

The effect of this made Order will be to reduce the existing 30MPH speed limit to 20MPH speed limit on the following length of roads in Wingham, Dover.

For their entire length:

College Road
Court Cottages Lane
Edmund Street
Harris's Alley
Miles Court
Miller Close
North Court Close
North Court Road
Orchard Close
Oxenden Crescent
Palmer Road
School Lane
South Court Drive
St. Marys Meadow
Sweetlove Place
Canterbury Road
High Street
Staple Road


Also, to change the existing 30MPH speed limit on Canterbury Road - from the western property boundary of Bridge House for a distance of 285 metres in a westerly direction.

And, to reduce the existing National Speed Limit to 30MPH on:

  • Adisham Road - from its junction with High Street for a distance of 80 metres in a southerly direction.
  • Preston Road – from its junction with Preston Hill for a distance of 400 metres in a north easterly direction.
  • Staple Road – from its junction with Miller Close for a distance of 192 metres in an easterly direction.

This order is being made for the following reasons:

  • avoid the danger to persons or other traffic using the road or any other road or for preventing the likelihood of any such danger arising.
Consultation has concluded

  • 25 March 2022

    Following the statutory consultation period, the scheme has been reviewed and the decision has been taken to make this Order permanent.

    Full details, including the scheme plan, can be found in the Made Order Public Notice and Statement of Reason document.

    Anyone may, by application to the High Court by 9 May 2022 challenge the validity of the Orders or of any provision contained in them on the grounds that it is not within the powers conferred by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, or any instrument made thereunder, or that there has been a failure to comply with any statutory requirement to the Orders.