LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW

The Butts Area, Brentford—Parking Scheme

Notice is hereby given that, the Council of the London Borough of Hounslow, on 30th March 1998, made the following Orders:

  (a) the Hounslow (Parking Places) (No. 1) Order 1998 under sections 45, 46 and 49 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (as amended);
  (b) the Hounslow (Waiting and Loading Restriction) (Amendment No. 99) Order 1998 under sections 6 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the afore-mentioned Act of 1984 and the Road Traffic Act 1991; and
  (c) the Hounslow (Free Parking Places) (Disabled Persons) (No. 1) Order 1998 under section 6 of the Act of 1984.

  2. The general effect of the Orders will be to impose a system of parking control in the streets or parts of streets in The Butts Area of Brentford specified in Schedules 1, 2 and 3 to this notice (hereinafter referred to as “the controlled area”).
  3. The general effect of the Parking Places Order will be to:

  (a) designate parking places on the highway specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this notice at which charges may be made by the Borough Council for vehicles authorised by the Order to be left in those parking places and provides that the type of parking place so designated will be as set out in column 2 of that Schedule;
  (b) provide that the parking places will operate between 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. on Mondays to Saturdays inclusive (Christmas Day, Good Friday and Bank Holidays excepted);
  (c) specify in respect of the ticket parking meter parking places, that passenger vehicles (12 seats or less), goods carrying vehicles, motor cycles and invalid carriages may be left therein and, in respectof the residents’ and business parking places, that vehicles displaying a valid permit in a protective cover issued by the Borough Council may be left therein;
  (d) provide that the permits and protective covers will be issued by the Borough Council:

    (i) on application being made, together with payment of the appropriate charge, for a residents’ parking permit by any person residing in the controlled area who is the owner of a passenger vehicle (12 seats or less), a goods carrying vehicle not more than 2.28 metres in height, a motor cycle or an invalid carriage;
    (ii) on application being made, together with payment of the appropriate charge, for a business parking permit by any person who occupies premises in the controlled area and who uses such premises for non-residential purposes and who is the owner of a passenger vehicle (12 seats or less), a goods carrying vehicle not more than 2.5 metres in height and the overall length of which does not exceed 2.25 metres or a motor cycle;

  (e) specifies that:

    (i) in respect of the ticket parking metered parking places, the charge would be at the rate of 20p per 30 minutes with a maximum period of stay of 5 hours;
    (ii) in respect of the residents’ parking places, the charge for permits will be £50 for 12 months and £10 for a Saturdays only permit running from the beginning of the month in which they are issued;
    (iii) in respect of the business parking places, the charge for a permit would be £400 for permits issued for 12 months running from the beginning of the month in which they are issued;
    (iv) in respect of residents’ visitors, a maximum of 6 booklets of vouchers per year per household may be purchased at a cost of £4 per booklet;
    (v) in respect of the ticket parking meter parking places, permit parking places and shared use parking places the Penalty Charge—payable to the Borough Council—will be £40 (or £20 if paid within 14 days), the unexpired time on a parking meter may be used free of charge and the period during which a vehicle may not return to a parking place would be 1 hour;

  (f) provides that certain vehicles may wait free of charge in certain circumstances, e.g., to allow persons to board or alight (maximum 2 minutes), to load or unload (maximum 20 minutes).

  4. The general effect of the Waiting and Loading Restriction Order will be to further amend the Hounslow (Waiting and Loading Restriction) Order 1977 so that:

  (a) waiting by vehicles (otherwise than for the purpose of delivering or collecting goods or unloading a vehicle will be prohibited between 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. on Mondays to Saturdays inclusive in the streets or parts of streets specified in Schedule 3 to this notice;
  (b) waiting by vehicles for the purposes of delivering or collecting goods or loading or unloading a vehicle for a period of more than 20 minutes in the same place will be prohibited between 11 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays in the streets or parts of streets referred to in sub-paragraph 4(a) above;
  (c) the sale or offer for sale of goods from a vehicle in the streets or parts of streets referred to in sub-paragraph 4(a) above will be prohibited unless there is in force a valid licence issued by the Hounslow Borough Council or the goods are immediately taken into or delivered at premises adjacent to the vehicle from which the sale is effected;
  (d) a solo motor-cycle parking area will be designated in The Butts.

  5. The prohibitions referred to in paragraphs 4(a) and (b) above, will not apply in respect of anything done with the permission or at the direction of a parking attendant or a police constable in uniform or in certain circumstances, e.g., the picking-up or setting-down of passengers, the carrying out of statutory powers or duties, the taking in of petrol, etc., from roadside petrol stations, to licensed street traders etc. The usual exemption relating to vehicles displaying a disabled persons’ “Orange Badge” will apply.
  6. The general effect of the Free Parking Places, Disabled Persons Order will be further amend the Hounslow (Free Parking Places) (No. 1) Order 1980 to designate parking places in The Butts in which vehicles displaying a disabled persons’ “Orange Badge” may wait free of charge between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. on Mondays to Saturdays inclusive.
  7. A copy of the Orders, which shall come into operation on 6th April 1998, of the above-mentioned Orders of 1977 and 1980 (and of the Orders which have amended those Orders) and of a map which indicates the lengths of roads to which the Orders relate can be inspected during normal office hours on Mondays to Fridays inclusive until the end of 6 weeks from the date on which this notice is published in the Environmental Services Reception Area at the Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow TW3 4DN.
  8. Copies of the Orders may be purchased from the Environmental Services Department of the London Borough of Hounslow, Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow TW3 4DN.
  9. 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, as amended, or that any of the relevant requirements have not been complied with in relation to the Orders may, within 6 weeks of the date on which the Orders were made, make application to the High Court for the purpose.
J. Evans, Director of Environmental Services

Schedule 1

(Streets or parts of streets comprising the proposed parking scheme)

  Brent Road, Brentside (part), Somerset Road (part), The Butts and Upper Butts.

Schedule 2

(Proposed parking places)

Highway 1	Type of parking places 2
A. Brent Road, Somerset Road, The Butts and the south-western arm of Upper Butts	Shared use by Residents Parking Permits; Business Parking Permits and Ticket Parking Meter 5 hours.
B. Brent Road, Somerset Road and The Butts	Residents Parking Permits.

Schedule 3

(Proposed waiting restrictions 8 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. on Mondays to Saturdays)

  Brent Road, Brentside (part), Somerset Road (part), The Butts and Upper Butts.
31st March 1998.