Low traffic neighbourhoods and Penalty Charge Notices

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Within the area for which your organization is responsible, please provide: 

1. How many streets in the area you cover, have become Low traffic neighbourhoods (LTN) in the last 12 months? Please list those locations /streets.

None, but a number of roads have been affected by works carried out under the Emergency Active Travel Fund:

  1. Exeter E9 Wonford Road – Point Closure except buses and cycles.  
  2. Exeter E9 Dryden Lane – Point Closure restricting all through vehicles.
    1. Consultation on next steps held Feb-March 2021
  3. Exeter E9 Ludwell Lane – Point Closure restricting all through vehicles.
    1. Consultation on next steps held Aug- Sept 2021
  4. Exeter E3 Homefield Road– Point Closure restricting all through vehicles
    1. Consultation on next steps held Aug- Sept 2021
  5. Exeter E3 Chard Road – Point Closure restricting all through vehicles.
    1. Consultation ongoing
  6. Exeter E3 Vaughan Road – Point Closure -19th June
    1.  Removed (14th October)
  7. Exeter Doctors Walk– Point Closure restricting all through vehicles
  8. Barnstaple – Extended Town Centre pedestrianisation
  9. Bideford Centre –High Street, Bridgeland Street, Longbridge and Manor Park Type: Pedestrian Improvements (parking removal, point closures, crossings and one-way system). Installed July 2020 and removed Feb 2021

Further information on the measures implemented by Devon can be fund from our webpage:

Emergency Active Travel Fund

2. Are any of these locations / streets bollarded off so it is impossible to travel through them or are they still open to traffic outside of restricted hours?

Please the available information above.

3. What ways did you communicate to residents and road users that these restrictions had been implemented?

Letter drop to residents and business in the vicinity in advance of changes.

4. How many PCN’s have been issued since their introduction per month, please also state the number of issued PCNs for each separate location.
5. How many of these PCNs have been challenged?
6. How many of these PCNs have been cancelled?
7. How much revenue has the council generated through these?

In response to questions 4-7, following our response to question 1 confirming that no LTNs have been created, we do not hold this information.

8. What consultations or research was conducted on each location to ensure its suitability as a LTN spot?

The point closures in Exeter are on locations on the Cabinet approved Exeter Strategic cycle network

9. Do you have plans to remove any of the existing LTN scheme?

The future of temporary closures will be subject to further review, and subject to consultation

10. Do you have any plans to introduce more of the LTN schemes?

Future plans for Exeter are set out in the Exeter Transport Strategy. Reducing traffic on residential streets is included in the strategy, although there are no specifically identified Local Traffic neighbourhoods