We noticed this report on the success of the new Zone 30 in the Belgian city of Ghent. It may be viewed here but the English translation of the web page follows.

At the 7th annual 20mph Places conference in Guildhall, City of London, after a warm welcome from Cllr Michael Welbank MBE, I made my presentation on how 20's Plenty/Love 30 is a developing standard for streets. Here is the text of that presentation.

The guidance is dead - long live the guidance
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Will 2026 become the year that UK transitions to a de-facto 20mph norm for urban/village streets?
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Opening address at inaugural Vision Zero - 20's Plenty conference
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At this time of the year it is traditional to take stock of achievements and progress in the preceding year. For 20’s Plenty for Us then perhaps 2015 will be seen as the “tipping point” when the whole campaign took on new dimensions and success. It does not mean that in 2015 we achieved our aims of delivering a 20mph limit as the norm for all residential streets in the UK, but was the year when we started to see that that aim was going to be deliverable in the foreseeable future.

Whilst many urban councils have pressed ahead with 20mph limits, some County and, particularly Shire Councils have not always told the truth if reluctant to implement 20mph. We bust the common 20mph myths.

French cities are adopting wide-area 30km/h (20mph) limits with their 30 zones. Here we reproduce a translated page of "Rue de l'Avenir" website who campaign for better a better and more live-able urban environment in France.

You can view the original page (in French)  here

Road injuries hurt an estimated 1% of people a year and its rising. Tackling road risk is key to public health improvement outdoors for all ages. Community-wide 20mph limits confer huge health economic returns in casualties avoided and in active travel exercise gains.  

Being active is the ‘wonder drug’ that more Britons should be taking regularly.  The greatest gains in health are from regular activities like walking or cycling locally.  20mph speed limits are a crucial platform for people to choose active travel. All local transport methods and journeys become safer and more pleasant. 20mph helps keep people safe and gets their legs moving more often!

Successful ways to campaign for 20mph limits include demonstrating community support to local politicians. Getting on the agenda of each major Party political group meeting can really help councillors to understand and vote for a Total 20mph policy. Win by speaking direct to those with power to set local road speeds

20's Plenty for Us is featured in a number of videos.  For more information contact [email protected]

The 4th in the series of Delivering 20 was on Dec 10th 2025. This focused, one and a half hour session unpacked the behavioural and cultural factors that shape the success of 20mph implementation, drawing lessons from Wales and beyond. Viewers will gain insights from new casualty data, learn from behavioural science research, and hear reflections on the evidence behind national reviews and professional guidance.

In his latest newsletter, Will Hayward reports on how 20mph is "working great" in Wales.

The 3rd in our series of highly popular "Delivering 20" webinars was on 24th June 2025. The theme was "20mph with exceptions at 30mph: How 20mph lays the foundation for Vision Zero".  Will Norman, London's Walking and Cycling Commissioner, discussed the benefits of making London effectively a default 20, Dr Suzy Charman, Executive Director, Road Safety Foundation spoke about the importance of “survivable speeds” in achieving zero road deaths and Sue Nicholls, 20’s Plenty for Us CIC summarised progress towards a ‘de facto' default 20mph across Wales, Scotland and England.

I was delighted to be asked to speak at the opening plenary session at the inaugural Vision Zero - 20's Plenty conference on 15th May, 2025. The conference was hosted by Liverpool City Region and Landor. It had over 200 attendees and was showing how default 20mph urban/village speed limits both complement and form the foundation for Vision Zero and a safe system.

Whilst I couldn't be at the conference due to a pre-arranged holiday, I did speak via a link and pre-recorded this video in case of any technical issues on the day. I am pleased to say that the link all worked well. 

On 26th February 2025, 20's Plenty and Landor Links hosted the second in our highly successful series of webinars on "Delivering 20". Experts analysed and discussed the results of the nationwide 20mph default speed limit in Wales, which has led to a 28% reduction in casualties and lowered car insurance premiums by around £50 per driver. Over 500 attendees learned how some Welsh councils were making exceptions to the national 20mph rule on a very small number of roads and the increasing extent to which 20mph is being rolled in England.  The panel called on the UK government to change the guidance on setting local speed limits, to make it easier and cheaper for local authorities in England to implement 20mph.    

Responses from attendees included:

"I expected an informative and valuable event and definitely got it"

"Possibly the best webinar on any subject I have attended! No waffle, just solid information. Fantastic."

"...more data than I was expecting which was brilliant....deep dive into how 20mph was implemented in Wales and its positive impacts" 

On 9th Oct 2024 20's Plenty hosted a conference with Landor Links and sponsored by the Project Centre. 

Presentations were made by Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall and Surrey councils on how they are delivering 20mph limits as a norm to communities. The Project Centre also gave a perspective.

The online conference was attended by 500 delegates and demonstrates the huge interest from councils around the country in setting 20mph as a norm.

For more information contact [email protected]

20's Plenty were asked to present at the European Transport Conference in Antwerp on 20th Sep 2024. Here the presentation is re-recorded.

Not a video but a podcast discussion between Rod King and Wendy Nash of "Getting around Cabo Carfree" in Queensland, Australia.

Our presentation at the Irish Road Safety Authority International Conference on Speed in October 2022

Anna Semlyen presents on 20's Plenty and the environment

The UK national 30mph limit is no longer fit for purpose. This is our presentation at the Road Safety GB Festival of Road Safety where we present on why the national urban speed limit should be changed to 20mph.

Anna Semlyen talks about how Parish Councils can get 20mph for their place 

At the Spotlight on Wales webinar looking at their national 20mph plans we feature several speakers

Dr Adrian Davis reports on the results from the 2020 implementation of 20mph across Scottish Border roads.

Dr Sarah Jones makes the case for the national 20mph limit for Wales.

Rod King puts the Welsh 20mph plans into the international context.

We host a webinar on setting 20mph and 30km/h default urban limits at national level. 

We collaborate with the Global Alliance of Road Safety NGOs in a 2hr webinar on effective activism. 

This two-hour session explores the major factors in successfully influencing decisions made by politicians and those in authority. It will discuss the issues from an activist’s perspective and will explore the key elements in successful activism. 

Download PDF of Mind Map used.

We take part in the Act on Road Danger Webinar to prospective Police and Crime Commissioners

And here is another on compliance

A new video from Anna Semlyen, Campaign Manager on how we can help communities gain a 20mph limit.

We were delighted to have a webinar in the Green Transport Recovery series dedicated to 20mph/30kmh limits. 

Recently medics and Public Health Professionals called for a national 20mph limit to reduce the road traffic casualty baseline load on the NHS. This appeared in the British Medical Journal at https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/03/24/can-we-improve-the-nhss-ability-to-tackle-covid-19-through-emergency-public-health-interventions/

In response we have created a video in support of this and adding some of our own perspective.

We created a webinar on campaigning for speed reduction for the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety. This is used to empower campaigners across the world as part of their "Capacity Building" program for NGOs

10 reasons why Scottish Government should support Safer Streets Bill

Welsh Government announces default 20mph limit

20 Questions on 20's Plenty

We love this video from Auckland Transport in New Zealand explaining the benefits of 30km/h limits.

Short Debate in the Welsh Assembly on a default 20mph limit for Wales

Jago's Story

What happens when an incident turns into a casualty?

Founder and Campaign Director of 20's Plenty for Us, Rod King,  was asked to speak at the annual Academic Lecture held by the Road Safety Authority of Ireland on the subject of 30km/h speed limits at the start of their annual Road Safety Week on 2nd October 2017.

Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organisation on the importance of reducing vehicle speeds for the 4th UN Global Road Safety Week, 8th-14th May 2017. We are delighted to have been chosen by WHO to write the Slow Down Day Toolkit for use by campaigners around the world.

Thanks to StreetFilms of New York who have recently created a new video that shows our success.

They also produced a video showing the way that 20mph limits arte being used in the City of London

Also see how they have been rolled out across the London Boroughs from 2012 to Sept 2015

and Transport for London is now progressively upgrading its arterial roads to 20mph

Here is a presentation made at the International Child Road Safety Conference in Dublin. You can watch it in Vimeo.

In April 2015 The Middle Way Society approached us with an interest in the way that we worked with communities and councils to deliver a more balanced use of roads. The interview with Rod King was turned into a podcast which is available here.

For our 2014 20's Plenty conference we conducted an interview with the Under Secretary of State for Transport - Robert Goodwill MP

Here is the video we made reporting on road casualties in the London Borough of Westminster

In May 2013 we were asked to give a Masterclass on campaigning for 20mph limits by the Movement for Liveable London as part of 3Spaces Re:THINK festival held in association with ourselves and Living Streets. The videos were produced by Brian Jones from Media for the Web

Rod King MBE presented on how to campaign effectively

Caroline Russell of Islington Living Streets

Jeremy Leach of 20's Plenty for Us and Jacqueline Saunders of Camden Council

Here is the first video made by StreetFilms of New York

And here is the video of one of earliest national conferences in Warrington after they had decided to set a 20mph limit for most roads.