In place because of a weak culvert which few people realise is there. If it did collapse at the end without the horse sign there is a good 60 ft drop behind the trees on the left.
One end:
google.co.uk/maps/@51.23975 … 312!8i6656
The other:
google.co.uk/maps/@51.23723 … 312!8i6656
This used to be marked up as 7T both ends but got changed for some reason.
Interesting.
I drive past a 7.5t sign almost everyday to get to one of my drops. Assessor out with me twice has been more than happy about. Police have followed me through, didn’t bat an eyelid. I can come in from the other end as do the artics but as I don’t bend in the middle like them I can’t get round the hair pin to go back out the same way so I would still have to go through the weight restriction. I have only seen the sign at one end of the village, there doesn’t appear to be another sign at the end the artics come in 
We also have some drops in width restricted zones but go through those too with no issues.
None of them have Access exceptions.
That said, one of our drivers fell foul of a weight restriction in Oxfordshire a few years back because even though he had received a couple of warnings about it, couldn’t be bothered to go the long way round, about 5 miles, to the drop. Caught by a camera car, fined and pointed.
Ste46:
Slightly different angle -7.5 weight limit except for access - can you take your lorry home for lunch, as you are requiring access to your own house?
And yes - this is a serious enquiry!
Steve
They couldn’t do me for going to the chip shop as was making a collection.
This is on Derbyshire Council website about environmental weight limits, which I believe is the type of limit the OP is talking about I. E a housing estate.
When proposing a weight restriction for any route or area, we must give careful consideration to those vehicles that will be re-routed. In certain instances, a route may seem inappropriate for HGV use but there may be no other realistic alternatives. If there are no alternative routes, introducing a weight restriction will only displace problems on to similarly inappropriate roads. Where alternative routes are available we must ensure wherever possible to positively sign these routes, and give early warning of a weight restricted area, to help the restriction to be self-enforcing.
It’s important to stress that environmental weight restrictions will nearly always include exemptions for:
vehicles making deliveries or collections at premises within the restriction
vehicles working on or near the roads in question
emergency service and military vehicles
buses, coaches and other public service vehicles.
This means that vehicles requiring legitimate access within the area covered by the weight limit, such as to deliver to a shop or access an industrial unit, are permitted. It’s not appropriate to impose weight restrictions on routes or areas where the majority of heavy goods vehicles using those roads are doing so to access premises. To introduce a restriction in such circumstances will have little or no effect.
That doesn’t state about weight limits except for access but says exceptions are allowed for delivering vehicles . As it is the local council that impose said limits I still say access is allowed if it is the only way in for a delivery.
I agree with Harry, and have done the same refused a collection/delivery because of this… I have several times been reported for being in 7.5 t limits (allowed access though) mobile phone pictures taken ect and sent into the office… firm as been ok with it to now but they always ask if that was the quickest/nearest to the address way in, so one day I guess something will happen and the usual office blow out of proportion will happen…
place i worked at before though a driver was in accident, not his fault as a car skidded in snow and hit the truck, but this was in a 7.5 limit with access, but his drop wasnt in it, was just the other side and he was taking a short cut… car driver instantly jumped on this and police were involved… ended up losing his job…