Road Traffic Acts
London Borough of Lambeth
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 AND HIGHWAYS ACT 1980
PROPOSED INTRODUCTION OF FLAT-TOP ROAD HUMPS (“SPEED TABLES”) IN PARTS OF COLDHARBOUR LANE AND CHANGES TO THE AT ANYTIME WAITING RESTRICTIONS IN COLDHARBOUR LANE AT AND NEAR TO ITS JUNCTION WITH VALENTIA PLACE
(Note: this Notice is about the Council’s proposal to install “speed tables” in Coldharbour Lane at its junctions with Electric Lane and Rushcroft Road and to extend the length of the existing double yellow lines in Coldharbour Lane at its junction with Valentia Place. Obejctions may be made – see paragraph 7.)
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Lambeth Borough Council, propose to make the Lambeth (Waiting and Loading Restrictions) (Special Parking Area) (Amendment No. **) Order 2008 under Sections 6 and 124 of Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.
2. The general effect of the Order would be to ban waiting at anytime (indicated by double yellow lines) in that length of: -
(a) Coldharbour Lane which lies on the north-west side between a point 11.4 metres south-west of the common boundary of Nos. 356 and 358 Coldharbour Lane and a point 4.2 metres south-west of the party wall of Nos. 350 and 352 Coldharbour Lane; and
(b) Valentia Place, which lies on the north-east side, between Coldharbour Lane and a point 12.6 metres north-west of Coldharbour Lane.
3. FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Lambeth Borough Council propose to construct the type of flat-top road humps known as “speed tables”, in Coldharbour Lane (a) at its junction with Electric Lane and (b) at its junction with Rushcroft Road.
4. Each “speed table” would be an elevated section of carriageway with a flat top, 75 millimetres higher than the surrounding carriageway and extending across the carriageway continuously from kerb to kerb. The “speed table” described in paragraph 3(a) above would be approximately 21 metres long in Coldharbour Lane and extend from Coldharbour Lane into Electric Lane on the north-west side for approximately 6.4 metres, at its longest point and on the south-east side for approximately 5.2 metres. The length of the “speed table” described in paragraph 3(b) above would be approximately 19.2 metres long in Coldharbour Lane and extend from Coldharbour Lane into Rushcroft Road for approximately 6 metres.
5. If you have any enquiries, please telephone the Council’s Transport and Highways Group on 020 7926 0318.
6. Documents giving more detailed particulars of the proposed Order are available for inspection between 9.30 am and 4.30 pm (excluding bank holidays) until the last day of a period of six weeks beginning with the date on which the Order is made or, as the case may be, the Council decide not to make the Order, at: the offices of Lambeth Borough Council’s Transport and Highways Group, 3rd Floor, Blue Star House, 234-244 Stockwell Road, London SW9 9SP. A map showing the location of the “speed tables” can be inspected between the same hours until 29th February 2008 at the same address.
7. All objections and other representations relating to the proposed Order or to the “speed tables” must be made in writing and all objections must specify the grounds on which they are made and should be sent to Barbara Poulter, Transport and Highways Group, London Borough of Lambeth, 3rd Floor, Blue Star House, 234-244 Stockwell Road, London SW9 9SP, by 29th February 2008.
Dated 8th February 2008
Tim Jackson
Assistant Director – Street Management