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At present there is no official government support for Home Zones in the UK, however some significant steps have been made towards legislation. In 1988, under the ten-minute rule, Helen Brinton, Member of Parliament for Peterborough, introduced a private members bill, which would have given legal priority to pedestrians and cyclists in developing Home Zones. This bill is unlikely to become law and there is no other similar legislation being considered at this time. In June 1999 legislation was passed which gave Local Councils greater freedom to impose 20mph zones. This is a move in the right direction although the limit is much higher than the 10mph sought and currently adopted by most European Home Zones. On 4 August 1999, Lord Whitty, Transport Minister, visited an event in Broughton Road, part of the Five Roads Forum, West London, which was organised by the residents and Local Council. He announced that there would be nine Home Zone pilot schemes initiated throughout England & Wales, The pilot schemes are: Five
Roads Forum, West Ealing The schemes will be evaluated to analyse changes in street use after their introduction. These monitoring activities will be funded by Central Government. The respective Local Council's will fund the schemes themselves. Additional schemes are encouraged to join the pilot and information gathered from them will help the over all project. On the 13th
January 2000 a meeting was held with the DETR,
representatives of the nine pilot Home Zones, Transport 2000, The
Children's Play Council, The
Scottish Executive, The Welsh Assembly and the Northern
Ireland Office. The out come of this very important meeting
was that the DETR has agreed to allow local authorities to sanction
10 mph zones if they want them. At this stage they will only be
advisory signs and not mandatory. Also Scotland is to pilot 2-3
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