NEW Forest Verderers have backed proposals for a blanket 30mph speed limit across the New Forest in Hampshire in a bid to further reduce animal fatalities. The call for the reduction of the limit from 40mph on unfenced roads was made at the May Verderers’ Court at Lyndhurst by the New Forest Commoners’ Defence Association, an organisation which looks after the interests of those who own the cattle and ponies that roam the forest. Spokesman Mike Eccles was looking for the backing of the verderers, and he got it.
Following discussions in committee, official verderer Oliver Crosthwaite Eyre came down firmly on the side of a reduction in the 40 limit, which has been in place forest-wide since 1992. He said: “Having a universal speed limit of 30mph across the whole of the forest makes very good sense.
“The government's own statistics show that the 10mph difference between 30 and 40 hugely reduces the risk of accidents.
“Another benefit would be the removal of the multitude of ugly and rather pointless new signs that have had to be erected all over the forest because of the different speed limits in most of our villages, sometimes only yards apart.
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