Issued By: Andrew Darvill Assistant Director, Traffic and Transport
Date: 02/12/2012

Various Roads in the borough Disabled Bays

Disabled Bays - to introduce a number of parking places for disabled persons

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 6

THE LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES (FREE PARKING PLACES) (PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES) (AMENDMENT No. 26) ORDER 2011

DISABLED PERSONS PARKING BAYS

VARIOUS STREETS THROUGHOUT THE BOROUGH

(Reference 57/11)

1.The Council of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames on 28 November 2011 made the above Order under sections 6 and 124 of, and Part IV of Schedule 9 to, the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended.

2.The principal objective of the Order is to introduce a number of parking places for disabled persons where a high level of parking made reasonable means of access difficult and to discontinue a number of similar parking places previously provided where the demand for such bays no longer exists.

3.The Order introduces a parking bay for disabled persons’ vehicles, operating “at any time” in the following locations:

12 Camac Road, Twickenham
4 Manor Park, Richmond
117 Sheen Lane, East Sheen
42 West Park Road, Kew
20 York Road, Teddington

4.A Notice of Proposals in respect of these bays was given on 8 July 2011.  A number of the new disabled persons parking bays which had been included in those proposals and all of the bays which were intended to be revoked were introduced or revoked, as the case might be, by the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames (Free Parking Places) (People with Disabilities) (Amendment No. 25) Order 2011, made on 20 September 2011.

5.Copies of this Order, which will come into operation on 5 December 2011, plans showing the locations and effect of the Order and the Council’s Statement of Reasons for proposing to make the Order can, for a period of six weeks from the date of this Notice, quoting Reference 57/11:- be inspected, at the Civic Centre Reception, 44 York Street, Twickenham TW1 3BZ between 9.15am and 5pm on Mondays to Fridays, except for Bank and other public holidays; and

6.Copies of this Order may be purchased from the Environment Directorate, Civic Centre, 44 York Street, Twickenham TW1 3BZ.

7.Persons wishing to question the validity of this Order or any of its provisions on the grounds that it or they are not within the powers conferred by the 1984 Act, or that any requirement of the Act or any instrument made under the Act has not been complied with that person may, within six weeks from the date on which the Order was made, apply for the purpose to the High Court.

ANDREW DARVILL
Assistant Director, Traffic and Transport
Civic Centre, 44 York Street, Twickenham TW1 3BZ

Dated 2 December 2011