Warwickshire wants ANPR cameras to fine drivers at the Clifton Road yellow box and the Eastlands Primary school street in Rugby. Have your say by 25 October.
Two Rugby junctions are on a list of six places in Warwickshire where the county council wants to fine drivers by camera. The consultation opened on 8 September and closes at midnight on 25 October.
The Rugby sites are the yellow box at Clifton Road and Moultrie Road, and Lansdowne Place, the school street outside Eastlands Primary School in Hillmorton. No other Warwickshire town has two.
Nothing about the restrictions themselves would change. What would change is who catches you breaking them, and how often.
What is being proposed
Warwickshire County Council wants to apply to the Department for Transport for powers to enforce moving traffic offences with Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras. At the moment only the police can enforce them, and the council’s consultation page says plainly that the police “have many other operational priorities”.
Councils outside London gained the right to apply for these powers in a 2022 change to national legislation. Warwickshire already enforces parking offences, such as double yellow lines and overstaying in a bay. This would extend that to offences committed while moving.
The council is explicit that this is about enforcement and not new rules:
“Importantly, we are not proposing to introduce any new restrictions at these locations at the current time, only how existing restrictions could be enforced.”
The six sites are:
| Location | Restriction |
|---|---|
| Clifton Road / Moultrie Road, Rugby | Yellow box |
| Lansdowne Place, Eastlands Primary School, Rugby | School street |
| Alcester Road / Greenhill Street / Arden Street / Grove Road, Stratford-upon-Avon | Prohibited turns and yellow box |
| Birmingham Road / High Street / Blythe Road, Coleshill | Prohibited turns |
| High Street / Bath Street, Leamington Spa | Yellow box |
| Midland Road / Abbey Green, Nuneaton | Yellow box |
Cllr Stephen Shaw, portfolio holder for transport and planning, said in the council’s announcement that the sites “have been selected using a range of evidence showing poor compliance with existing restrictions, which can create safety risks and congestion”. The council has not published that evidence alongside the consultation.
The Lansdowne Place restriction, in detail
The school street outside Eastlands Primary is the one most Rugby drivers will not know the rules for, because it only applies at two short windows in the day.
Lansdowne Place is closed to non-residential traffic in term time, Monday to Friday, from 08:15 to 09:15 and from 14:30 to 15:30, according to the county council’s own account of the scheme. It began as a pilot and was made permanent by a prohibition of vehicles order in 2025. Signs at the entrance to the zone give the hours.
Suki Edwards, the head teacher, said when the pilot was reviewed that the scheme “has transformed the area immediately around the school gates at the start and end of each school day”, and that children were “now walking the last five or ten minutes to school each morning”.
One small thing to know if you go looking for the paperwork: the council’s own traffic order page spells the street “Landsdowne Place”, while the consultation spells it “Lansdowne Place”. They are the same road.
What the fines would be, and where the money goes
The council does not publish a penalty amount anywhere in the consultation material, and we could not confirm one. What it does say is that drivers who break the restrictions “will be issued a Penalty Charge Notice”, and that:
- there would be a warning period when enforcement starts, “giving drivers time to adjust”, with no length given
- income, after costs are deducted, can by law only be spent on road safety improvements, public transport, and active travel schemes for walking, cycling and wheeling
- the cameras read the number plate only, “not the people in the vehicle”
The sequence matters. The consultation is not the decision. After 25 October the county council’s Cabinet considers the findings and decides whether to apply to the Department for Transport. Only if the DfT grants the powers does a publicity and warning period begin, and only after that do fines start. There is no published date for any of those steps.
What it means for you
If you drive through Clifton Road and Moultrie Road, the rule is already the rule. Entering a yellow box junction when your exit is not clear is an offence today. The proposal changes the chance of being caught, not the law.
If you drop children at Eastlands, check the times. The two windows are narrow and they only run in term time. Residents of the zone are not affected.
You have until midnight on 25 October to say what you think, through the county council’s Ask Warwickshire survey. If you need it in another format or language, the council gives an email address: civilenforcement@warwickshire.gov.uk.
This is separate from the town centre vehicle ban. Rugby Borough Council’s own application to extend the Market Place, Chapel Street, High Street and Sheep Street restriction from 4pm out to 11pm has been sitting with the county council since May, and no statutory notice has been advertised. That one is a change to the restriction itself. This one is not.
Everything currently closed or programmed on Rugby’s roads is on our roadworks and travel page, which we keep current.
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