A SPEED survey is to be organised for Peverell Avenue East on the Duchy’s extension to Dorchester – to see if the road might qualify for a 20mph zone.

Dorset Council said it was unable to make a decision on the road without further investigation.

Now Dorchester Town Council has agreed to pay for a speed survey, using strips fixed to the road, attached to a measuring device, at a cost of more than £300.

Cllr Richard Biggs, who sits on both councils, said at a town council planning and environment meeting that as much as he was loathe to see the town council pay out for Dorset Council highway work, without making the payment the information would not be collected to make the case for the lower speed limit.

In a recent letter to the Dorset Echo writer R Bonner points out to the apparent disparity when it comes to the treatment of ‘old’ and ‘new’ Poundbury; “How ironic that old Poundbury and Poundbury Road residents have for over 40 years and all well within the current 30 mph speed limit, had during this period received no response to several requests for speed reducing methods, nor a visit from a speed detector van to help reduce speeding. Vehicles travel at 40/50 mph past residential properties on a daily basis, yet the recently new constructed estate is given very quick consideration for speed reductions.”