NEW cameras have appeared as part of a traffic survey linked to plans for a new secondary school in Worcester and are not speed cameras.

The small, black cameras are fixed to lampposts in Woodgreen Drive, Warndon Villages, near where mobile speed vans sometimes operate.

Some drivers could be seen slowing down as they spotted the cameras, one right next to a speed camera sign on the same lamppost.

Mobile vans sometimes use that location and another on Woodgreen Drive for mobile speed enforcement.

However, the road safety team said they are not their cameras and enquiries with Worcestershire County Council have revealed their real purpose.

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A spokesperson for Worcestershire County Council said: “We can confirm that traffic surveys have been carried out using camera monitoring on roundabouts on Woodgreen Drive and Newtown Road this week.

"These surveys provide traffic information to inform the planning application stage of the New Secondary School for Worcester.”

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On Tuesday, February 2, 2021, Cabinet gave approval to establish a new 600-place secondary school in Worcester to meet the increased demand for school places.

Worcestershire County Council confirmed last November that plans to open Worcester City Secondary School on Newtown Road are still on track.

The school will open initially with just the year seven cohort, gradually feeding through the school with a new cohort joining each September.

Full capacity for the school is expected to be reached in 2030.

The multi-academy trust Oasis Community Learning was confirmed as the preferred sponsor for the school.

Worcestershire County Council Cabinet approved the proposal to establish a new 600-place secondary school in Worcester to meet the increased demand for school places in November 2021.

From mid-March to April 2022, Worcestershire County Council invited interested parties to submit bids to run the new school.

After completing a selection process the council submitted their recommendation to the Regional Schools Commissioner for the Department for Education who made the final decision.

A public consultation, consisting of 595 people who responded, saw 83 per cent in favour of the plans, 9 per cent neither agreed nor disagreed and only three per cent actively disagreed with the plans.