M4 junction 3 to 12 smart motorway - Statutory Instrument Consultation

Overview

We are consulting on a proposed amendment to the M4 Motorway (Hillingdon and Hounslow) (Speed Limits) Regulations 2002 No.1651.

The M4 junctions 3 to 12 smart motorway scheme involves the use of variable mandatory speed limits (VMSL) displayed on signals installed on overhead gantries – this will lead to a change in the location where the 60mph speed limit starts (currently shown by a fixed plate sign) between junction 4 and junction 3 eastbound.

VMSL gantries will displace the current 60mph fixed plate signs and a gantry cannot be sited at the current starting point of the 60mph limit due to the terms of the M4 Motorway (Junctions 3 to 12) (Smart Motorway) Development Consent Order 2016. 

An amendment is required for this change and the consultation on this page is related to this amendment only.

You can find out more about our proposals in the Consultation Document below. You can also download a copy at the bottom of this page.

We need your views

We would like to encourage any organisations, businesses or individuals affected by these proposals to contact us and communicate their views.

If you are responding on behalf of an organisation, it would be helpful if you could make this clear in your reply. Please also indicate the nature of the organisation; how many individuals’ views are included in the response and ways in which these views were gathered.

How to give us your views

You can respond to the consultation by completing our online survey - you can access this in the 'Give us your views' box below.

Alternatively, you can complete the consultation response form within the Consultation Document (Appendix B) and return it to us by email or by post at the following addresses.

Post: Lynne Stinson, Senior Project Manager, Highways England, 2 Colmore Square, Birmingham B4 6BN

Email: M4J3to12smartmotorways@highwaysengland.co.uk

Please ensure that your response reaches us by Wednesday 14 August 2019. 

You can find out more about the M4 junctions 3 to 12 smart motorway scheme on a dedicated page on our website.