Road Traffic Acts
London Borough of Bexley
THE BEXLEY (FREE PARKING PLACES) (DISABLED PERSONS) (AMENDMENT NO. 32) TRAFFIC ORDER 1999
THE BEXLEY (NEW ELTHAM) (PARKING PLACES) (AMENDMENT NO. 6) TRAFFIC ORDER 1999
Notice is hereby given that the Council of the London Borough of Bexley, on 8th March
1999, made the above-mentioned Order, under sections 6 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule
9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended by section 8 of and Part 1 of
Schedule 5 to the Local Government Act 1985.
The general effect of the Bexley (Free Parking Places) (Disabled Persons) (Amendment
No. 32) Traffic Order 1999 will be to:
(a) designate parking places in which vehicles authorised by the Order may be left
for any period during the permitted hours without charge in the roads specified in
the Schedule to this notice;
(b) provide that the parking places will operate at any time throughout the week;
(c) specify, in respect of the parking places in the roads in the Schedule, that
disabled persons’ vehicles displaying in the relevant position a disabled person’s
badge (commonly referred to as the Orange Badge”) issued by any local authority under
the provisions of the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) Regulations 1982
may be left therein; and
(d) provide that certain vehicles may wait in the parking places in certain circumstances,
e.g. to allow persons to board or alight (maximum 2 minutes), to load or unload (maximum
20 minutes), etc.
The general effect of the Bexley (New Eltham) (Parking Places) (Amendment No. 6)
will be to amend a parking place in Oakley Drive, New Eltham.
A notice of proposal was advertised on 11th December 1997, for a designated parking
place for disabled drivers vehicles in Springfield Road, Welling. The Council deferred
the introduction of this bay under Regulation 19 of the Local Authorities Traffic
Order (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1996. This bay is now introduced.
A copy of the Order, which will come into operation on 15th March 1999, the Bexley
(Free Parking Places) (Disabled Persons (No. 1)) Traffic Order 1989, (and of the Orders
which have amended that Order), The Bexley (New Eltham) (Parking Places) (No. 1) Traffic
Order 1997 (and the Orders which have amended that Order), the Council’s statement
of reasons for making the Order, and of the maps which indicate each length of road
to which the Order relates can be inspected during normal office hours on Mondays
to Fridays inclusive until the expiration of a period of 6 weeks from the date on
which this notice is published in The Information Centre, Civic Offices, Broadway,
Bexleyheath, Kent DA6 7LB.
Copies of the Order may be purchased from the Chief Engineer’s Department, Room 37,
Civic Offices, Bexleyheath, Kent DA6 7LB.
Any person desiring to question the validity of the Order 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 6 weeks of the date on which the Orders were made, make application for the
purpose to the High Court.
P. J. Morley, Chief Engineer
Schedule
Barnehurst Road, Barnehurst; Bedford Road, Sidcup; Brook Street, Erith; Elm Road,
Erith; Ethronvi Road; Hudson Road, Bexleyheath; Lumley Close, Erith; Northcote Road,
Sidcup; Oakley Drive, New Eltham; Queens Road, Welling; Riverdale Road, Erith; Springfield
Road, Welling; and Westerham Drive, Sidcup.
8th March 1999.