Cameras will be used to catch drivers who break the rules at five junctions after a decision by Brighton and Hove City Council’s cabinet on Thursday (12 November).
Labour councillor Trevor Muten, the council’s cabinet member for transport and city infrastructure, said that too many drivers were ignoring the signs at the five sites in central Brighton, Hollingbury and Rottingdean.
Councillor Muten said that each location had community support when he spoke at a meeting of the council’s cabinet at Hove Town Hall.
He said that other requests for help enforcing the rules of the road would prompt proper assessments, not “an automatic promise of a camera”.
He said: “This is not blanket enforcement but targeted protection. Not success measured by tickets issued but by behaviour changed.
“We aspire to no PCNs (penalty charge notices) and no accidents or injuries as the very best of outcomes.”
Councillor Muten said that there was particularly strong support for cameras to enforce the no right turn from West Street, Rottingdean, to the High Street. Nearly three quarters of the 206 people who responded to a consultation were in favour.
In Hollingbury, more than half of the 124 people who responded to the public consultation wanted to see enforcement of the one-way entry at Carden Avenue into Carden Crescent.
In Ditchling Road, a camera will enforce the ban on drivers turning into Francis Street. The move was backed by more than half of the 133 people who responded to the consultation.
Councillor Muten said: “Having met with local residents and businesses deeply concerned by the persistent number of motor vehicles blatantly ignoring the clear no through road signs, I knew we had to act.
“I met with ward councillor (Sue) Shanks three years ago who said she had been asking for over a decade before to sort this out.
“I said I would not ask, I would act. Sussex Police did not have capacity to consistently enforce. This administration has found a way to make this work.”
Cameras will also enforce the no left turn into Baker Street, from Ditchling Road, and the no left turn from London Road into New England Road.
The projected costs of installing cameras for all five sites is £94,000. The money will come from the council’s closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera capital programme.
Any surplus income from fines can only be spent on traffic management, public transport, roads, air quality and environmental improvements.
