1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the London Borough of Merton, on 16 October 2023, made the above-mentioned Orders under the powers conferred by sections 6, 45, 46, 49 and 124 of, and Part IV of Schedule 9 to, the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended.

2. The general effect of the ‘Free Parking Places’ Order will be to:-

(a) designate a parking place on the carriageway at the locations listed in Schedule 1 to this Notice, in which vehicles authorised by the Order may be left for any period without charge;

(b) provide that the parking place will operate at all times;

(c) specify, in respect of the parking place, that vehicles displaying in the relevant position, a disabled persons badge (commonly referred to as "the Blue Badge") issued by any local authority under the provisions of the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) Regulations 2000 may be left therein;

(d) provide that certain vehicles may wait in the parking place in certain circumstances, e.g. to allow persons to board or alight (maximum 2 minutes), to load or unload (maximum 20 minutes), etc;

(e) revoke the redundant disabled persons parking places at the locations listed in Schedule 2 to this notice.

3. The general effect of the ‘Parking Places Amendment’ Orders will be to shorten in length existing permit only parking places to facilitate the introduction of disabled persons parking place in certain roads or increase in length existing permit only parking places following the removal of disabled parking places in certain roads.

4. A copy of each of the Orders, which will come into force on 30 October 2023, and other documents giving more detailed particulars of the Orders, including plans which indicate the roads or lengths of road to which the Orders relate, can be inspected during normal office hours Mondays to Fridays, until the end of six weeks from the date on which the Orders were made, at Merton Link, Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden.

5. Any person desiring to question the validity of the Orders or of any provision contained therein on the grounds that it is not within the relevant powers of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, or that any of the relevant requirements thereof, or of any relevant regulations made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the Orders may, within six weeks from the date on which the Orders were made, make application for the purpose to the High Court.

Dated 16 October 2023

Paul McGarry

Head of FutureMerton

London Borough of Merton

SCHEDULE 1

Outside No. 88 Hamilton Road, SW19 (CPZ S2)

Outside No. 14 Southview, Clifton Road, SW19 (CPZ VOs)

Outside No. 90 Springfield Avenue, SM4

SCHEDULE 2

Outside No.12 Manor Way, CR4

Outside No. 28 Murray Road, SW19

Outside No. 73 Tamworth Park, CR4

Outside No. 26 Whitford Gardens, CR4