Illegal speed limit signs

[SteveSteveson]

No... This isn't about an attempt to avoid a speeding fine by arguing the toss with the police, but a query about if some signs are real. I have sent a picture and details to the councils highways department, but knowing the speed they work at I will probably have forgotten by they time they do anything, so I thought I would ask here.

Some 20 limit signs have suddenly appeared on a country lane close to me. There is one house and a business down this road and very little else. It is not in a village or anything like that, the signs are on wooden poles and attached with screws through the red part of the sign rather than bands on the back like normal. These don't conform to the normal style of limit signs, and I thought 20 limit signs were only in built up areas.

Can anyone confirm my suspicion that these signs are wrong? I would guess that they were put up buy either the people living in the house or the business (I suspect they are owned by the same people anyway).

[SteveSteveson]

The Surveyor said:

Is the lane a public adopted highway or a private road if it's only serving a single house and attached business? If its the latter, they can put up whatever signs they like.

It is not a private road. About a mile down the road in one direction is a village of about 20 houses and a major road about a mile the other way. The 20 limit signs are about 50 meters from the house and business.

I have checked street view and the signs were put up after it was last done by Google. Here is the picture I took at the time and approximately where the sign is from streetview. Not a road you want to be doing any sort of speed on anyway.

[SteveSteveson]

remkingston said:

As you said OP, that looks like a scary place to want to do more than 20mph down anyway!

What speed is the road supposed to be?

This may help:
http://www.itoworld.com/map/5

It probably is. It's a road I cycle down and have never driven it so I could not say for sure.

It's NSL. Thank you for that link. I'll have a look when I'm on a real computer.

SMB said:

easy way to check is the size of the signs, if they are repeater size with no large signs at the ends of the limit , or a sign that increases the limit at the end, then they were put up by the residents.
generally residents dont want to pay the full price for the correct number of signs so it can be a quick give away.

Good point. There are just the two of them. Small repeater signs and no start/finish signs. I'm reasonably sure they are fake. I don't think the council will tell me, just take them down, so good to have a bit more of an answer.