Background to ASE schemes
Coventry City Council is committed to making the city’s roads as safe as possible and to reducing the number of accidents for all road users.
Read the Regional Road Safety Strategy and the Regional Road Safety Action Plan.
Road deaths and serious injuries can often be avoided. Many are preventable, and we continue to strive for safer roads, including where speeding is an issue. Research shows a clear connection between speed and serious collisions, which is why the Council makes Average Speed Enforcement a key focus of its road safety efforts.
How does Average Speed Enforcement work
The Average Speed Enforcement cameras work by using Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and record speed by measuring the time taken to travel between defined points. A zone is always very well signed as the aim is to slow drivers down – not to give out fines.
How we choose the locations
Average Speed Enforcement is not suitable for all roads. We work closely with West Midlands Police, who operate and undertake the enforcement of speed limits as well as following national guidance.
We use the following criteria to help us select the best locations for this kind of enforcement:
- locations that have previously had fixed safety cameras
- historical evidence of collisions resulting in casualties
- speed surveys which indicate that speeding vehicles are an issue
- site suitability including length of road and number of junctions
- current speed limit
- where there is no alternative realistic or appropriate solution that can be installed to reduce collisions and vehicles exceeding the speed limit
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Location of ASE scheme |
Description of the extents of each ASE zone |
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Ansty Road (A4600) |
From its junction with Dane Road to M6 |
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London Road (B4110) |
From its junction with the City Ring Road to Toll Bar Island |
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Binley Road (A428) |
From its junction with Jimmy Hill Way to its junction with Brandon Road |
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Henley Road (B4082) |
From its junction with Woodway Lane to its junction with Hall Green Road |
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Burnaby Road |
From its junction with Holbrook Lane to its junction with Keresley Green Road |
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Bell Green Road (B4109) |
From its junction with A444 to its junction with Old Church Road |
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Longford Road (B4113) |
From its junction with A444 to City boundary |
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Foleshill Road (B4113) |
From its junction with A444 to its junction with Harnall Lane West |
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Stoney Stanton Road (B4109) |
From its junction with A444 to its junction with Harnall Lane East |
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Walsgrave Road (B4600) |
From its junction with Sky Blue Way to its junction with Burns Road |
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Tamworth Road (B4098) |
From its junction with Bennetts Road South to City boundary |
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Radford Road and Keresley Road (B4098) |
From its junction with the City Ring Road to its junction with Tamworth Road |
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Kenilworth Road (A429) |
From its junction with Leamington Road to its junction with A45 |
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Allesley Old Road (B4106) |
From its junction with Spon End to its junction with Pickford Way |
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Holyhead Road (A4114) |
From its junction with City Ring Road to its junction with Pickford Way |
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Allard Way (A4082) |
From its junction with London Road to its junction with Binley Road |
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Hearsall Common (B4101) |
From its junction with Broad Lane to its junction with City Ring Road |
Future plans
Work to deliver new Average Speed Enforcement zones was approved in March 2024. This means we are working on three new routes.
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New ASE zones to be installed spring 2025 |
Description of the extents of each ASE zone |
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Fourpounds Avenue, Moseley Avenue and Engleton Road. |
From its junction with Allesley Old Road to its junction with Radford Road |
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Wheelwright Lane, Lockhurst Lane and Holbrook Lane |
From its junction with Winding House Lane to its junction with Foleshill Road |
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Alderman’s Green Road, Including Parrotts Grove |
From its junction with Hall Green Road to its junction with City boundary |
We are working to ensure schemes should go-live in spring 2025 or sooner.
Signs will go up ahead of the cameras being switched on and the cameras themselves are bright yellow and very visible.