PZ Healthy Streets

Traffic Flow

During the Neighbourhood Plan Survey, Penzance Expo and Cornwall We Want Survey there was a request from the public to reduce traffic in the town centre.

The latest Healthy Streets consultation in Feb/March 2021 also showed 96% of those responding to the Let’s Talk survey felt it was important to have safe roads in the town, with 77% saying it was important to have access to good pavements and footpaths, and 80% wanted to see lower levels of local traffic pollution.

As a result initial work to reduce traffic flow in the town will start in Autumn/Winter 2021:

• Modifying road signage in order to direct more through traffic to use the A30 and the existing primary route network as intended.
• Day visitors and shoppers heading to the town’s car parks will also be directed via the ring road.
• Modifications to the mini roundabout linking Western Prom to Alexander Road, to create a ‘gateway’ to the prom and signal it as a more pedestrian and cycle friendly zone, rather than a through route

New speed monitoring and signage on New Road will look to reduce traffic speeds travelling towards Newlyn