The Orkney Islands Council (20 mph Speed Limit) (Various Roads on Orkney Mainland and Isles) 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 on the  Orkney mainland and isles.

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 and 30 mph speed limit extension) (Finstown) Order 2023 which came into operation on the Eighteenth day of March Two Thousand and Twenty Four.
3. The Orkney Islands Council (Variable 20 mph Speed Limit and) (Island Schools) Order 2023 which came into operation on the Ninth day of October Two Thousand and Twenty Three.
4. The Orkney Islands Council (Restricted Roads) (Balfour Village, Shapinsay) Order 1998 which came into operation on the First day of September Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Eight.
5. The Orkney Islands Council (Restricted Roads) (Birsay) Order 1999 which came into operation on the First day of December Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Nine.
6. The Orkney Islands Council (Restricted Roads) (Dounby) Order 1993 which came into operation on the First day of March Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Three.
7. The Orkney Islands Council (Restricted Roads) (Ireland Road, Stenness) Order 1996 which came into operation on the First day of March Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Six.
8. The Orkney Islands Council (Restricted Roads) (Orphir) Order 1996 which came into operation on the First day of November Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Six.
9. The Orkney Islands Council (Restricted Roads) (Pier Road, St Margaret’s Hope) Order 2001 which came into operation on the First day of April Two Thousand and One.
10. The Orkney Islands Council (Restricted Roads) (Trumland, Rousay) Order 1998 which came into operation on the First day of February Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Nine.
11. The Orkney Islands Council (Restricted Roads) (Whitehall, Stronsay) Order 1999 which came into operation on the First day of December Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Nine.
12. The Orkney Islands Council (Variable 20 mph Speed Limit) (Ireland Road, Stenness) Order 2016 which came into operation on the Eleventh day of April Two Thousand and Sixteen.
13. The Orkney Islands Council (Variable 20 mph Speed Limit) (B9052, Toab, St Andrews) Order 2015 which came into operation on the Seventeenth day of August Two Thousand and Fifteen.

Oliver Reid.

Chief Executive.

Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY.

14 August 2025.