A new 20mph limit will be introduced on a number of roads in a Norfolk village, after local people won a battle to tackle speeding driver.
Villagers in Southrepps, near the north Norfolk coast, have long called for measures to make streets safer by slowing down motorists.
Roads which will be covered by the new limit or have sections included in the 20mph zone are High Street, Thorpe Road, Church Street, Chapel Street, Long Lane, Sandy Lane, Whitegate Road, Gimingham Road and Gables Avenue.
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Southrepps Parish Council and Liberal Democrat county councillor Tim Adams, whose Cromer division includes Southrepps, have been calling for the limit for a number of years.
Norfolk County Council has agreed to bring in the 20mph zone, with built-out kerbs and traffic calming features to slow down traffic.
The parish council and county council will pay for the physical changes through County Hall's parish partnerships fund.
The traffic regulation order will be paid for through the local member fund, money which Mr Adams has accessed.
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He said: "This is very much welcomed by the parish council and the residents who have pushed for this for years now.
"This sort of project is a shared aspiration of many other villages to secure safety measures.
"But it has been very frustrating that it has taken this long. Work on the scheme started pre-Covid, and this proves why reform of the highways act and traffic regulation order process is needed.
"It is too difficult, time consuming and costly to secure even basic schemes, and we have to search in all sorts of dark corners to get them funded. Whereas there is a pipeline of projects in Yarmouth and Norwich which we don't benefit from."
A date for the introduction of the 20mph limits and the start of the physical work has yet to be announced.
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