MP challenges TfGM to keep revising speed camera guidance

After new speed camera guidance from TfGM designed to identify speeding hotspots before accidents happen identified only one qualifying location in the whole of Stockport, MP Lisa Smart has written to GM Mayor Andy Burnham to ask for the guidance to be reviewed and updated on a rolling basis to ensure it is effective.

The new guidance was published in the middle of 2025, after a long running campaign to get changes at a local and national level. 

Lisa Smart, the MP for the Hazel Grove constituency said: “This has been a step in the right direction, but it is clear from speaking to residents in my neck of the woods that there are far more speeding hotspots than this guidance has identified. 

“The point of this guidance is to allow speed cameras to prevent accidents. If there are so few sites being identified, then we need to either review the guidance itself or the data that is going into the assessment.”

As well as changes to the local guidance from TfGM, the MP is still pushing the Labour Government to update the national advice, after it failed to meet its promise to publish its Road Safety Strategy by the end of 2025. 

Liberal Democrat MP Lisa Smart added: “The national guidance is woefully out of date, and the Labour Government has sadly continued in the pattern of the previous Government – promising an update, but failing to deliver. 

“It just needs sorting, so that more lives can be saved on our roads.”