Road Traffic Acts

London Borough of Waltham Forest

EXPERIMENTAL INTRODUCTION OF WILMOT ROAD AREA, E10 (WR)

CONTROLLED PARKING ZONE (T35(15))

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the London Borough of Waltham Forest (the Council) on 2nd October 2015 made The Waltham Forest (Wilmot Road Area CPZ) (Parking Places) Experimental Order 2015,The Waltham Forest (Free Parking Places) (Short Stay) (Amendment No. 31) Experimental Order 2015 and The Waltham Forest (Waiting & Loading Restriction) (Amendment No. 89) Experimental Order 2015 under sections 9 and 10 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. The Orders will come into force on 2nd November 2015 and may continue in force for up to 18 months.

2. The general effect of the Orders will be, as an experiment, to introduce:-

(a) the Wilmot Road Area (WR) Controlled Parking Zone into: Rosedene Terrace E10, Thornhill Gardens E10, Thornhill Road E10 and Wilmot Road E10;

(b) new permit holder parking places and waiting and loading restrictions into the streets and parts of streets mentioned in paragraph 2(a) above; and

(c) new free short stay parking place into Wilmot Road E10 (north-east side – adjacent to No. 26 Grange Park Road; and south-west side – adjacent to No. 24 (surgery) Grange Park Road), with a maximum stay of 1 hour and no return within 2 hours.

3. The Orders will provide that—

(a) the operational hours for the permit parking places and free short stay parking place throughout the new WR CPZ will be between 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. on Mondays to Saturdays inclusive; and

(b) virtual residents’ permits, business/charity permits, visitors’ permits, school parking permits, virtual and hard-copy 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 would 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 or part of a street specified in paragraph 2(a) above, and their vehicle is UK registered to that address;

(ii) a foreign vehicles residents’ permit (hard-copy/virtual), they are a resident of a street or part of a street specified in sub-paragraph (i) 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 or part of a street specified in sub-paragraph (i) 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 or part of a street specified in sub-paragraph (i) above;

(v) a visitors’ permit, they are a resident of a street or part of a street specified in sub-paragraph (i) 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 a street or part of a street specified in sub-paragraph (i) above;

(c) vehicles displaying any valid permit displaying the letters WR may use any of the permit parking places provided in the streets and parts of streets specified in paragraph 2(a) above;

(d) other than in the permit parking places or the free short stay parking places referred to in paragraphs 2 (b) and (c) above, waiting by vehicles will generally be restricted between 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. on Mondays to Saturdays inclusive in all other parts of streets within the WR CPZ; except where at any time waiting restrictions will apply in Rosedene Terrace [on the south-west side, outside Nos. 22 and 22a]; Thornhill Road [on the north-west side – (a) outside No. 51 and adjacent to No. 28 Rosedene Terace; (b) adjacent to No. 27 Rosedene Terace; (c) outside Salway House (Nos. 25 to 33); and (d) north-east of No. 20], and Thornhill Gardens.

4. The properties specified in the Schedule to this Notice would be eligible in respect of permits to park in the new WR CPZ.

5. The charges for permits and vehicle class will be as follows:-

Engine size less than 900cc registered before 1st March 2001Engine size between 901cc and 3000cc registered before 1st March 2001Engine size more than 3000cc registered before 1st March 2001CO2 emissions less than 120 g/km registered after 1st March 2001CO2 emissions between 121 and 225 g/km registered after 1st March 2001CO2 emissions more than 225 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
Virtual Residents’ permit – 1 month£10.00£20.00£100.00£10.00£20.00£100.00
Residents’ permit (virtual/hard-copy) 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.

6. Where it appears necessary for certain purposes, an authorised officer of the Council may, in pursuance of section 10(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, modify or suspend any provision of the experimental Traffic Orders while they are in force.

7. 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 5th October 2015 until the Orders cease to have effect, at (a) The Information Desk, Town Hall, Forest Road, Walthamstow, E17; (b) Low Hall, Argall Avenue, London, E10 7AS.

8. 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, 46 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 another Order 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, Engineering Design, Low Hall, Argall Avenue, London, E10 7AS quoting reference T35 (15) – Wilmot Road Area (WR) CPZ. Any objection may be communicated to, or be seen by, other persons who may be affected.

9. If any person wishes to question the validity of any the Orders or of any of their provisions on the grounds that they are 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.

Dated 5th October 2015

Mr. K . Valavan, Head of Highways and Infrastructure, Neighborhoods and Commissioning, Low Hall, Argall Avenue, London, E10 7AS

SCHEDULE (properties whose occupiers are eligible to purchase permits to park in the new WR CPZ) -

Grange Park Road E10 – Nos. 22 to 26 (evens); Oliver Road E10 – No. 23 and Nos. 49 to 55 (odds); Rosedene Terrace E10 – all; Thornhill Gardens E10 – all; Thornhill Road E10 – all; and Wilmot Road E10 – all.