Tunstead & Sco-Ruston

  • Community Speed Watch Volunteers Needed

    Community Speed Watch was started in 2007, as an initiative to help communities play an active role in tackling speeding in their villages.

    Tunstead and Sco Ruston used to have a speed watch team, but this was disbanded some time ago. Our local Beat Manager (police officer) wishes to restart the speed watch team again. A team consists of a minimum of six people, who will be trained in using the speed measuring equipment, with one member of the team being the coordinator who will hold the equipment and be the main point of contact.

    Results of the teams are sent to a central point who will send out letters to the registered keeper of the vehicle that was observed driving over the speed limit. The letter will remind them about the hazards of speeding, and ask them to keep within the speed limits. Persistent offenders will be contacted by the local police engagement officer.

    If you wish to join the team of Community Speed Watch Volunteers, please contact the Norfolk Safety Camera Partnership on 01603 276433 or the local district Engagement Officer by dialling 101.

    The North Norfolk Police have published a booklet about the scheme. Click the underlined words to download the Community Speed Watch booklet.

  • SID comes to town

    SID (sometimes known as SAM) has been installed by Westcotec Ltd, in Tunstead. SID is a vehicle Speed Indicator Device.

    A Westcotec’s SID in use

    As you know, Tunstead’s through roads Anchor Street and Market Street have long suffered from speeding motorists. To help combat this, the parish council with financial support from The Parish Partnership Scheme sponsored by the Highway department of Norfolk County Council, have purchased and installed the SID. The intension of installing such a device is to inform and educate drivers of the speed constraints within our village. Whilst SID does not hold any punitive measures in itself, it is felt that it will be a useful tool in educating motorists and help reduce speeding in our village.

    SID at one of its four locations in our village

    The device can be quickly installed and secured in any of four locations in our village. The system is moved on every few weeks so to provide a dynamic indication of a vehicle’s speed, without it being seen as yet another piece of street furniture.

    The parish council is looking for volunteers to move and reinstall the device in different locations. Installation only takes five minutes (if that), so the task in itself is not arduous. The device is run on a battery which needs to be kept charged, so a second battery has been supplied by Westcotec, along with its own battery charger which plugs into an ordinary mains socket. Once the existing battery is run down, the replacement is used and the original recharged. If you have a few spare minutes, and a spare mains socket please contact us to join the team of volunteers and help reduce speeding through our village.

    Contact us via this LINK

    For further information on Westcotec Ltd, please use visit their web site via this LINK

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