Locations mapped out for new traffic enforcements

Barnet council plans to introduce new fines and CCTV cameras to catch drivers committing offences, known as moving traffic contraventions, across the borough.

The measures will see 50 cameras, costing £1.4million, placed around schools and busy junctions to catch motorists breaking restrictions such as ignoring no left or right turn signs and parking on zig-zag lines outside schools.

The authority’s environment committee agreed last Thursday (September 24) to a list of 52 locations – 32 schools and 20 roads and junctions – for the first phase.

Among the schools to be included are St Margaret’s Nursery School in New Barnet, Fairway and Northway Primary School in Mill Hill, and Christ’s College in Finchley.

The full list of schools and roads and junctions  can be found below this article.

The proposals also include a banned right turn out of Sainsbury's car park into Ravensdale Avenue, North Finchley, box junction marking outside the entrance to Broadwalk Shopping Centre in Edgware, and a compulsory left turn into West Hendon Broadway from Brent View Road.

The scheme will begin in January next year, provided further approval is granted from the London Council’s Transport and Environment Committee (TEC).

Once the cameras have addressed problems in a particular area, they will be moved to the next location, the council has said.

Barnet council hopes the measures will increase road safety, as well as to keep traffic moving and reduce air pollution.

The scheme was criticised in June by campaigner Paul Pearson, who runs thepenaltychargenotice.co.uk website, as a “blatant” money-making move.

Councillors agreed at a full council meeting in July to take over responsibility for the offences from the Metropolitan Police, which has not enforced them.

In a report to last week’s environment committee, officers wrote: “The introduction of moving traffic contraventions across the borough will assist with making roads safer and improving traffic flow and will provide value for money for the tax payer as the scheme will be self-funding for which any surplus will be reinvested in to traffic development and management.

“This will also protect the tax payer by ensuring that the general fund does not have to subsidise cost towards parking and traffic management.”

The list of schools to be included in the first phase is as follows:

The full list of roads and junctions is as follows: