Human Rights considerations in sending letters to registered keepers may be considered as an infringement of an individual’s privacy. However, in the case of Community Speed Watch the following ingredients would mitigate any challenge on privacy grounds:

• There is a pressing social need;
• It pursues a legitimate aim;
• It is a strategy in the reduction of crime and disorder;
• It promotes and protects public safety;
• It protects rights and freedoms of other villages for a safer environment;
• It is the least intrusive method;
• It is proportionate to the problem.