We use Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras at several sites in Medway to enforce:
- traffic restrictions
- signs and road markings.
We can issue penalty charge notices (PCNs) for offences such as:
- driving through a 'no entry' sign
- illegal turns
- entering a yellow box junction before your exit road or lane is clear. You
may enter the box and wait when you want to turn right and are only stopped from doing so by oncoming traffic or other vehicles waiting to turn right.
This makes the roads safer and less congested.
Locations
We enforce moving traffic restrictions with ANPR cameras at:
- A2 Corporation Street junction with Bardell Terrace - yellow box junction
- A2 Corporation Street junction with Esplanade, Rochester - yellow box junction
- A2 Corporation Street junction with Gas House Road, Rochester - yellow box junction
- A2 High Street junction with B2002 Station Road, Strood - yellow box junction
- A2 High Street junction with Orchard Street, Rainham - right turn ban
- A2 High Street, Strood junction with Esplanade, Strood - yellow box junction
- A2 junction with Castle View Road, Strood - yellow box junction
- A2 London Road junction with Gravesend Road, Strood - yellow box junction
- A2 Rainham Road, junctions with Ash Tree Lane and Canterbury Street, Gillingham - yellow box restriction
- Chatham High Street (access point from Clover Street, Chatham) - no entry restriction
- Chatham High Street - motor vehicle restriction (pedestrian zone). Access point from Batchelor Street, Chatham - no motor vehicles restriction
- Chatham Hill (A2), junction with Rock Avenue in Gillingham - yellow box restriction
- Chatham Hill junction with Luton Road, Chatham - yellow box junction
- Cuxton Road at High Street junction with Gun Lane, Strood - yellow box restriction
- Gibraltar Hill junction with A230 Maidstone Road, Chatham - yellow box restriction
- Gillingham High Street, Gillingham - no motor vehicles restriction
- Gillingham High Street (Green Street access point to Gillingham High Street) - no entry restriction
- Gillingham High Street (James Street access points to Gillingham High Street) - no entry restriction
- Gillingham High Street (Kings Street, access onto Gillingham High Street) - no entry restriction
- High Street junction with The Brook, Chatham - pedestrian zone and no entry restrictions
- Maidstone Road, Chatham, Bus Interchange - yellow box junction
- Rochester High Street junction with Star Hill, Rochester - right turn ban
- Rochester High Street, Rochester - no motor vehicles restriction on Saturdays
- Station Road junction with Friary Place, Strood - yellow box junction
- Whittaker Street/High Street, Chatham, in connection to the above (Chatham High Street) - no entry restriction.
We have not introduced any new traffic restrictions at these locations. We have only changed the way we enforce them.
There are also some restrictions on streets outside schools and red routes.
Background to moving traffic offences
We were granted powers from the government in July 2023 to enforce moving traffic offences under Part 6 of the Traffic Management Act 2004.
Before this, moving traffic offences could only be enforced by the police.
Better enforcement of these offences makes the roads safer. It helps us to meet objectives in our One Medway Council plan and Local Transport Plan.
We first implemented enforcement of restrictions at 8 locations in February 2024.
We then ran a public consultation to get your feedback on enforcement at 17 more locations in Medway.
The results of the consultation were considered by Cabinet in July 2024 and enforcement using ANPR cameras at these new locations was approved.
View the cabinet report and decision documents for the additional locations.