The Orkney Islands Council (20 mph Speed Limit) (Various Roads in Kirkwall, Orkney) Order 2025

Orkney Islands Council proposes to introduce a new Traffic Regulation Order which will create a twenty miles per hour speed limit on various sections of roads in Kirkwall.

The proposed Order will supersede various existing Orders specified in the Schedule below.

Details of the proposals are contained in the draft Order which, together with copies of the relative maps, a statement of the Council’s reasons for proposing to make the Order and the Orders specified in the Schedule below may be inspected during normal office hours at Customer Services, Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 09:00 to 17:00 and Wednesday 10:00 to 17:00) and at Warehouse Buildings, 2-12 Victoria Street, Stromness, Orkney KW16 3AA (Mondays 09:15 to17:45, Tuesday to Friday 09:15 to 16:45 and Saturdays 11:00 to 15:45) and online at www.orkney.gov.uk.

Objections to the proposals, specifying the grounds on which they are made, should be sent in writing to the Director of Infrastructure and Organizational Development, Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney KW15 1NY or by email to nsi@orkney.gov.uk not later than 5pm on Friday, 12 September 2025.

Schedule

1. The Orkney Islands Council (30 mph Speed Limit) (Various Roads in Orkney Order 2021) which came into operation on the Seventh day of January Two Thousand and Twenty-Two.
2. The Orkney Islands Council (Variable 20 mph Speed Limit) (Schools in Kirkwall and Stromness) Order 2005 which came into operation on the First day of October Two Thousand and Five.
3. The Orkney Islands Council (Variable 20mph Speed Limit) (Schools in Kirkwall and Stromness) (Amendment) Order 2019 which came into operation on the Eighteenth day of March Two Thousand and Nineteen.
4. The Orkney Islands Council (Restricted Roads) (Grainbank and Grainepark, St Ola) Order 1993 which came into operation on the First day of May Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Three.

Oliver Reid.

Chief Executive.

Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY.

14 August 2025.