Road Traffic Acts
London Borough of Waltham Forest
EXPERIMENTAL EXTENSION OF THE WSN AND WSS CONTROLLED PARKING ZONE – WOOD STREET AND SHERNHALL REGIONS AND FREE SHORT STAY PARKING PLACES ON VARIOUS ROADS
MINOR CORRECTION TO EXISTING ORDER DEFINITIONS IN LEA BRIDGE ROAD
THE WALTHAM FOREST (WOOD STREET CPZ) (PARKING PLACES) (AMENDMENT NO.1) EXPERIMENTAL TRAFFIC ORDER 2014
THE WALTHAM FOREST (WAITING AND LOADING RESTRICTION) (AMENDMENT NO. 63) EXPERIMENTAL TRAFFIC ORDER 2014
THE WALTHAM FOREST (FREE PARKING PLACES) (SHORT STAY) (AMENDMENT NO. 20) EXPERIMENTAL ORDER 2014
T29 (2014)
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the London Borough of Waltham Forest on 25th November 2014 made the above Orders under sections 6, 9, 10 and 124 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended. The Orders will come into force on 15th December 2014 and may continue in force for up to 18 months.
2. The general effect of the experimental Orders will be to:
(a) extend the existing boundaries of:
(i) the Wood Street North (WSN) Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) to include Shernhall Street (north of the southern edge of the rail bridge) and Vallentin Road; and
(ii) the Wood Street South (WSS) CPZ to include Barrett Road E17, Brooke Road E17, Brookfield Avenue E17, Butterfields E17, Chestnut Avenue South E17, Elm Road E17, Eastern Road E17, Evelyn Road E17, Ferndale Avenue E17, Greenacre Gardens E17, Greville Road E17, Oliver Road E17, Raglan Road E17, Rosslyn Road E17, Shernhall Street E17 (south of the southern edge of the rail bridge), Wood Street E17 (between the south-eastern wall of No. 171 Wood Street and its junction with Lea Bridge Road) and Western Road E17;
(b) introduce permit holder parking places into all roads or parts of roads mentioned in 2(a)(i) and 2(a)(ii) above that will operate between 10am and 4pm on Mondays to Fridays inclusive;
(c) introduce short stay free parking places into Ferndale Road E17 and Raglan Road E17 that will operate between 10am and 4pm on Mondays to Fridays inclusive where vehicles will be permitted to stay for a maximum period of 1 hour with no return within 2 hours;
(d) introduce “at any time” double yellow line waiting restrictions into the lengths of street specified in Schedule 1 to this Notice (or convert existing single yellow line waiting restrictions into double yellow lines at these locations if applicable);
(e) advertise the existing no loading “at any time” restrictions on the west side of Wood Street between Roland Road and No.220 Wood Street to (these arrangements are already on street to protect vehicles in designated parking places on the footway, avoid loading at junctions and for bus stop accessibility but were not previously advertised)
3. The Orders relating to the Wood Street CPZ (north and south) extension will provide that:
(a) the operational hours in the extension of the CPZs for permit parking places will be between 10am and 4pm on Mondays to Fridays inclusive;
(b) valid residents’ permits, business/charity permits, visitors’ permits, school parking permits, residents’ foreign vehicle permits and essential user/carers permits may be issued, on payment of the appropriate charge to a person who is the keeper of a passenger vehicle (having 8 passenger seats or less), certain goods carrying vehicles and invalid carriages, (motor cycles will be able to park in permit parking places, free of charge, without the need of a parking permit) providing that in the case of:—
(i) a virtual residents’ permit, they are a resident of a street specified above and their vehicle is UK registered to that address;
(ii) a foreign vehicles residents’ permit, they are a resident of a street specified above and their vehicle is registered outside of the UK;
(iii) a business/charity permit/business visitor’s permit, they have a business in a street specified above and that the permit is for a vehicle which is essential to the operation of that business/charity and is used in the purchase and sale of goods or services in connection with that business/charity;
(iv) an essential users/carers permit, they are a doctor or carer who has a surgery in or works in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, or employed by or contracted to the Council, or employed by or contracted to a health authority, or employed by the Metropolitan Police, or employed by the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority, or a company that services fire fighting appliances and for whom the use of a vehicle is essential to the carrying out of their public service duties in a street specified above (except for essential users employed by or contracted to the Council in an exclusion zone);
(v) a visitors’ permit, they are a resident of a street specified above and that such permit is to be used by a bona fide visitor to their home;
(vi) a schools parking permit, they are a parent of a student enlisted at a school situated in or near to the streets specified above; and
(c) only vehicles displaying a valid hard-copy permit (or as the case may be provided a valid virtual permit for) displaying the letters:
(i) WSN may use the permit parking places provided in the street specified in paragraph 2(a)(i) above and in permit parking places signed with the letters WSN in streets within the WSN CPZ (north of Wood Station); and
(ii) WSS may use the permit parking places provided in the streets specified in paragraph 2(a)(ii) above and in permit parking places signed with the letters WSS in streets within the WSS CPZ (south of Wood Station); and
(iii) except in the permit parking places referred to in the streets specified in paragraph 2 above, waiting by vehicles will be banned between 10am and 4pm on Mondays to Fridays inclusive;
[“At any time” waiting restrictions in certain areas of certain streets listed in paragraph 2(a)(i) and (ii) above will also apply]
(d) those addresses specified in:
(i) Schedule 2 to this Notice relate to those properties whose occupiers are eligible to purchase permits to park in the WSN CPZ; and
(ii) Schedule 3 to this Notice relate to those properties whose occupiers are eligible to purchase permits to park in the WSS CPZ.
The charges for permits and vehicle class would be as follows:
Engine size less than 900cc registered before 1st March 2001 | Engine size between 901cc and 3000cc registered before 1st March 2001 | Engine size more than 3000cc registered before 1st March 2001 | CO2 emissions less than 120 g/km registered after 1st March 2001 | CO2 emissions between 121 and 185 g/km registered after 1st March 2001 | CO2 emissions more than 185 g/km registered after 1st March 2001 | |
Residents’ permit - 12 months) | £12.50 | £25.00 | £120.00 | £12.50 | £25.00 | £120.00 |
Residents’ permit (second vehicle) - 12 months | £42.00 | £90.00 | £210.00 | £42.00 | £90.00 | £210.00 |
Residents’ permit (more than two vehicles) - 12 months | £65.00 | £150.00 | £280.00 | £65.00 | £150.00 | £280.00 |
Residents’ permit – 1 month | £10.00 | £20.00 | £100.00 | £10.00 | £20.00 | £100.00 |
Residents’ permit foreign vehicle – 6 months | £24.00 | £50.00 | £150.00 | £24.00 | £50.00 | £150.00 |
Schools 15 minute permit – 12 months | £21.00 | £42.00 | £125.00 | £21.00 | £42.00 | £125.00 |
Other permits
All-Zone Business Visitor’s Permit – book of 30 permits (valid for 1 hour each) £23, book of 20 permits (valid for 2 hours each) £30, and book of 10 permits (valid for 5 hours each) £40; Business Permit – 3 months, £220; Business Permit – 12 months, £390; Business Permit – 12 months (more than two vehicles), £570; Charity permit – 12 months, £40; Charity permit – 12 months (more than two vehicles), £172; Essential User Permit – 1 month, £30; Essential User Permit – 6 months, £110; Essential User Permit – 12 months, £190; Visitor permits – 1 hour book of 30, £14 (free to over 60’s, 1 book per year); Visitor permits – 2 hours book of 20, £16; Visitor permits – 5 hours book of 10, £18, Vouchers - 80 pence for 30 minutes or £1.30 per hour. Services charges for change of VRM or change of address £5, for refunds £10 (refunds under £1 not permitted) and lost or stolen permits, £20
4. Make minor corrections to existing Order definitions for waiting and loading restrictions in Lea Bridge Road E10 (between Halford Road and Peterborough Road so that they accurately reflect the current on-street layout (no changes will be made on-street).
5. Documents giving more detailed particulars of the Orders are available for inspection between 9.30 am and 4.30 pm on Mondays to Fridays inclusive (except Bank Holidays), from the date on which this notice is published until the Orders cease to have effect, at (a) The Information Desk, Town Hall, Forest Road, Walthamstow, E17 4JF and (b) Low Hall Depot, Argall Avenue, London, E10 7AS.
6. The Council will be considering in due course whether the provisions of the experimental Orders should be continued in force indefinitely by means of permanent Orders made under sections 6, 45 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. Any person may object to the making of the permanent Orders for the purpose of such indefinite continuation within a period of six months beginning with the day on which the experimental Orders come into force or, if the Orders are varied by other Orders or modified pursuant to section 10(2) of the 1984 Act, beginning with the day on which the variation or modification or the latest variation or modification came into force. Any such objection must be made in writing and must state the grounds on which it is made and be sent to Traffic Orders, Environment and Regeneration, Low Hall, Argall Avenue, London, E10 7AS, quoting reference Traffic Orders T29. Any objection may be communicated to, or be seen by, other persons who may be affected
7. If any person wishes to question the validity of the Orders or of any of the provisions on the grounds that it is not within the powers conferred by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, or that any requirement of that Act or any instrument made under that Act has not been complied with, that person may, within 6 weeks from the date on which the Orders are made, apply for the purpose to the High Court.
For more information please telephone 020 8496 3000 quoting reference Traffic Orders – T29.
Dated 1st December 2014
Mr. K . Valavan, Head of Highways and Infrastructure, Public Realm, Low Hall, Argall Avenue, London, E10 7AS
SCHEDULE 1 (double yellow line “at any time” waiting restrictions)
Brookfield Avenue E17 - between Nos. 32 and 37, Butterfields E17 (north-eastern junction) - at its junction with Shernhall Street, Chestnut Avenue South E17 - northern arm extremity, Elm Road E17 - at its junction with Shernhall Street, Evelyn Road E17 – at the southern entrance of Wye Court, Greenacre Gardens E17 – excluding permit parking, the remainder of the street,Shernhall Street E17 -between its junction with Church Lane northward to the existing double yellow lines; outside the new development site access opposite Brooksfield Avenue; either side of the existing bus cage outside Nos. 84 and 94; outside the southern wall of Ellis House and at its junction with Butterfields (north-eastern arm), Wood Street E17 - between its junction with Upper Walthamstow Road and a point opposite its junction with Barrett Road.
SCHEDULE 2 (properties whose occupiers are eligible to purchase permits to park in the WSN CPZ)
Shernhall Street (properties north of the rail bridge) and Vallentin Road;
SCHEDULE 3 (properties whose occupiers are eligible to purchase permits to park in the WSS CPZ)
Barrett Road E17, Brooke Road E17, Brookfield Avenue E17, Butterfields E17, Chestnut Avenue South E17, Eastern Road E17, Elm Road E17, Evelyn Road E17, Ferndale Avenue E17, Greenacre Gardens E17, Greville Road E17, Oliver Road E17, Raglan Road E17, Rosslyn Road E17, Shernhall Street E17 (properties south of the rail bridge only), Wood Street E17 (properties south of the rail bridge only) and Western Road E17.