Throckley Way - TRAFFIC CALMING PROPOSAL 2026

SOUTH TYNESIDE COUNCIL
THROCKLEY WAY, SOUTH SHIELDS
TRAFFIC CALMING PROPOSAL 2026

South Tyneside Council proposes under Sections 90A and 90C of the Highways Act 1980 and the Highways (Road Humps) Regulations 1999 to undertake the following:
Install permanent traffic calming consisting of a road hump on Throckley Way, South Shields, at the access to the Recycling Village.
The proposed road hump will measure approximately 9.4m wide, 4.0m long and 75mm high and will replace the existing bolt-down traffic-calming feature at this location.
The proposed location is shown in the schedule below:
Schedule 1 - Road Hump (approximately 9.4m width x 4.0m length x 75mm height)

Road
Location
Throckley Way, South Shields
At the access to the Recycling Village.

The traffic calming is necessary to reduce vehicle speeds entering and leaving the Recycling Village.
Details of the proposal may be inspected from Monday to Friday during normal office hours at the Council's South Shields Town Hall Customer Service Centre at the address below.
If you wish to raise an objection, express support or make any other observations about the proposal, you must make them in writing at the address below, addressed for the attention of Traffic & Road Safety and quoting reference SV/TRS/TC01/2026, by 20 November 2026. Any objection must specify the grounds on which it is made.
DATED: 30 October 2026
Head of Highways, Infrastructure and Project Delivery
South Tyneside Council
Town Hall and Civic Offices
Westoe Road
South Shields
NE33 2RL