London Borough of Enfield

PAINTERS LANE EXPERIMENTAL CLOSURE

Further information may be obtained by telephoning David Taylor, telephone number 020 8379 3576. 1. Notice is hereby given that the Council of the London Borough of Enfield (the Council), on 14 May 2003, made the Enfield (Prescribed Route) (No 1) Experimental Traffic Order 2003, under sections 9 and 10 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. 2. The general effect of the Order will be, as an experiment, to prohibit motor vehicles from entering that length of the eastern arm of Painters Lane which lies between a point 10.5 metres west of the western kerbline of Park Road and the western extremity of that arm. 3. The prohibition referred to in paragraph 2 above will not apply: (a) to any person causing any vehicle to enter the above-mentioned length of Painters Lane for the purpose of gaining access to or leaving any land or premises abutting thereon or accessible only therefrom; (b) any person who causes any vehicle to proceed for access purposes in respect of exercising any statutory power or performing any statutory duty; (c) in respect of anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police officer; or (d) in respect of anything done in accordance with any restriction or requirement indicated by traffic signs placed on the highway by or on behalf of the Metropolitan Police. 4. The Order provides that in pursuance of section 10(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, the Head of Traffic and Parking Services of the London Borough of Enfield may, if it appears essential for certain relevant purposes, modify or suspend the Order or any of its provisions. 5. A copy of the Order, which will come into operation on Monday 19 May 2003, and will continue in operation for up to 18 months, of the Council’s statement of reasons for proposing to make the Order and other relevant documents can be inspected at the Reception Desk, “B” Block, the Civic Centre, Silver Street, Enfield, Middlesex EN1 3XD, during normal office hours on Mondays to Fridays inclusive, until the Order ceases to have effect. 6. Copies of the Order may be obtained from Traffic and Parking Services, the Civic Centre, Silver Street, Enfield, Middlesex EN1 3XD. 7. In due course, the Council will be considering whether the provisions of the experimental Order should be continued in force indefinitely by means of an Order made under section 6 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. Any person may object to the making of the Order for the purpose of such indefinite continuation within a period of 6 months beginning with the day on which the experimental Order comes into force or, if the Order is 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 came into force. Any such objection must be in writing and must state the grounds on which it is made and be sent to the Head of Traffic and Parking Services, the Civic Centre, Silver Street, Enfield, Middlesex EN1 3XD, quoting Ref T/TG52/826, by 19 November 2003. 8. Under the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, any letter you write to the Council in response to this notice may be made available to the press and to the public, who would be entitled to take copies of it if they so wished. 9. 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 regulation made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the Order may, within 6 weeks of the date on which the Order is made, make application for the purpose to the High Court. I Hastings, Head of Traffic and Parking Services 14 May 2003.