Road Traffic Acts
ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH
THE GREENWICH (HOUSING ESTATE ROADS AND CAR PARKS) (AMENDMENT NO. 1) ORDER 80 2023
INTRODUCTION OF FORMAL ON-STREET AND OFF-STREET PARKING CONTROLS ON VARIOUS HOUSING ESTATES AND CHANGES TO EXISTING CONTROLS ON CERTAIN HOUSING ESTATES
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich on 1st December 2023 made the above-mentioned Order under sections 6, 35, 45, 46, 49 and 124 of and part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended. The Order will come into force on 13th December 2023.
2. The general effect of the Order will be to:
(a) provide parking controls in the housing estate locations listed in Schedule 1 to this Notice (including certain access roads to the estates) and at those locations:
(i) to designate on-street parking places, being either permit parking places or disabled resident parking places that will operate at all times and introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on all remaining on-street kerbside; and
(ii) to provide and regulate off-street parking places that will operate at all times, comprising permit parking bays or disabled resident parking bays and double yellow line ‘no parking’ areas;
[Note: not all locations will include the above types of on-street parking places or waiting restrictions, or off-street parking bays]
(b) provide ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions in certain lengths of the housing estate locations listed in Schedule 2 to this Notice; and
(c) provide a restriction of waiting ‘at any time’ on grassed areas, including all verges in the housing estate locations listed in Schedule 3 to this Notice.
[As mentioned in paragraph 5, below – maps showing the proposals in greater detail are available from the Council].
3. The Order will further provide for the issue of permits for use in, and other terms and conditions of use for, the above on-street parking places and off-street parking places and more generally in on-street and off-street areas in housing estates, and make provisions for waiting by vehicles in the above streets and more generally in housing estate roads.
4. The charges for permits will be as specified in Schedule 4 to this Notice. [Note: Different permit types will only be available for purchase and use in certain on-street parking places and off-street parking places. Where permits are available, there will be limits on the number of permits that any one household can have at a time].
5. Further information about the Order may be obtained by telephoning Tenancy Services on 020 8921 8609or online at www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/parkingconsultation.
6. The Order and other documents giving more detailed particulars of the Order are available for inspection during normal office hours until the end of six weeks from the date on which the Order was made, at Tenancy Services, Royal Borough of Greenwich, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ or online at www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/parkingconsultation.
7. If any person wishes to question the validity of the Order or of any of the provisions contained therein 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 of any instrument made under that Act has not been complied with, that person may, within six weeks from the date on which the Order was made, apply for that purpose to the High Court.
Assistant Director, Strategic Transportation
The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Dated 6 December 2023
SCHEDULE 1 (see paragraph 2(a))
Dairy Lane (Milne Estate); Fletching Road, Sandpit Place; 401 to 639 Middle Park Avenue; Sowerby Close; Earl Rise; Ann Street; and Richard Neve House.
SCHEDULE 2 (see paragraph 2(b))
Barnfield Estate, Felixstowe Road (hardstanding on the south side, approximately 40 metres east of Mottisfont Road), Monksfarm Place and Rockmount Estate
SCHEDULE 3 (see paragraph 2(c))
Flowers Estate; Bromholm Road; Bracondale Road; and Mottisfont Road.
SCHEDULE 4 (see paragraph 4)
(1) residents’ permits, £57.00 per annum; (2) business permits: permit for first vehicle: free of charge; permits for second and subsequent vehicles (subject to applicable permit limits), £57.00 each per annum; (3) visitors’ permits, £7.00 for 20 four-hour permits; (4) Disabled Residents’ Permit, Carers’ Permit and contractors permits will be free of charge.
