The Greater London Highways and Road Traffic (Various Provisions) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 1547

LONDON GOVERNMENT

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Greater London Highways and Road Traffic (Various Provisions) Order 2000

Made

9th June 2000

Laid before Parliament

12th June 2000

Coming into force

3rd July 2000

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 405(2) and 406 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999(1) and, being satisfied that it is expedient on grounds of national security that no part of certain areas in the City of Westminster should be included in a special parking area, of the power conferred by section 76A(3)(a) of the Road Traffic Act 1991(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Greater London Highways and Road Traffic (Various Provisions) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 3rd July 2000.

Town and Country Planning Act 1990 Part X—transitional provision

2.—(1) This article applies where an application requesting the Secretary of State to make an order under section 247, 248 or 249 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(3) is received by him before 3rd July 2000.

(2) Where this article applies, Part X of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 shall apply in relation to any order requested by the application to be made, as if the amendments made to that Part by Schedule 22 to the Greater London Authority Act 1999 had not been made and the Secretary of State may accordingly continue to deal with the application until—

(a) he makes an order, or decides not to make an order, in pursuance of it; or

(b) the application is withdrawn.

Procedure for the making of traffic orders by Transport for London

3.—(1) Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(4) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 20(1) (consultation with the chief officer of police)—

(a) for “a local authority make” there shall be substituted “making”;

(b) for “they” there shall be substituted “a local authority or Transport for London”;

(c) after “Part II of this Schedule” there shall be inserted “or any other provision of this Act”;

(d) after “the authority” there shall be inserted “or, as the case may be, Transport for London”.

(3) In paragraph 23(1) (procedure for orders made by a London borough council or the Common Council of the City of London—

(a) after “Common Council of the City of London” there shall be inserted “or Transport for London”;

(b) after “that council” in both places where those words occur there shall be inserted “or Transport for London”.

(4) The amendments to the Local Authorities' Traffic Orders (Procedure) Regulations 1996(5) in Schedule 1 to this Order shall have effect.

Areas not to be included in a special parking area

4.  The areas in the City of Westminster comprised of the roads specified in Schedule 2 to this Order are hereby specified for the purposes of section 76A(3)(a) of the Road Traffic Act 1991 (areas not to be brought within a special parking area).

Amendment of the Road Traffic (Parking Adjudicators) (London) Regulations 1993

5.—(1) The Road Traffic (Parking Adjudicators) (London) Regulations 1993(6) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 for the definition of “local authority” there shall be substituted—

• ““local authority” (except in regulation 3) means—

  (a)

  in a case where Transport for London made the disputed decisions, Transport for London;

  (b)

  in any other case, the London authority which made the disputed decision;”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Keith Hill

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

9th June 2000

Article 3(4)

SCHEDULE 1 AMENDMENTS OF THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES' TRAFFIC ORDERS (PROCEDURE) REGULATIONS 1996

1.—(1) Regulation 3(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In the definition of “local authority” after sub-paragraph (a)(ii) there shall be inserted—

“(iiA) Transport for London,”.

(3) In the definition of “London authority” after “means” there shall be inserted “Transport for London,”.

(4) For the definition of “London bus service” there shall be substituted—

““London bus service” means a local service with one or more stopping places in Greater London which is not an excursion or tour as defined by section 134 of the Transport Act 1985(7);”.

2.—(1) Regulation 6 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In the table in paragraph (1), in column (3) of item 5 for “London Regional Transport” there shall be substituted “Transport for London”.

(3) In paragraph (3)(b) “London authorities and” shall be omitted.

3.—(1) Regulation 9 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 9(3)(b)(ii) for “London Regional Transport” there shall be substituted “Transport for London”.

(3) In regulation 9(5) for sub-paragraph (c) there shall be substituted—

“(c) to the extent that it relates to a GLA road or GLA side road.”

4.  In regulation 24(1) “a London authority or” shall be omitted.

5.  In Schedule 4 (minor orders), in paragraph 7 after sub-paragraph (a) there shall be inserted—

“(aa) an order made under section 76A(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1991 (variation of special parking areas by order made by the Mayor of London);”.

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2 ROADS IN THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER NOT TO BE INCLUDED IN A SPECIAL PARKING AREA

1.  Abbey Orchard Street, from its junction with Victoria Street, south for 40 metres, from the Victoria Street kerb line.

2.  Abingdon Street (A3212).

3.  Barton Street.

4.  Brewer’s Green.

5.  Bridge Street.

6.  Broad Sanctuary.

7.  Broadway.

8.  Buckingham Gate.

9.  Butler Place.

10.  Cannon Row.

11.  Carteret Street.

12.  Caxton Street.

13.  Cowley Street.

14.  Craig’s Court.

15.  Dacre Street.

16.  Dartmouth Street.

17.  Dean Farrar Street.

18.  Dean’s Yard.

19.  Derby Gate.

20.  Downing Street.

21.  Great College Street.

22.  Great Peter Street from the north side kerb line, to the centre line of the carriageway, from its junction with Marsham Street to Millbank.

23.  Great Scotland Yard.

24.  Great Smith Street (B326).

25.  Great George Street (A3214).

26.  Horseferry Road between its junction with Millbank and the northern kerb line of Thorney Street and the party wall of Ergon House and Imperial House.

27.  Horse Guards Avenue.

28.  King Charles Street.

29.  Lewisham Street.

30.  Little College Street.

31.  Little George Street.

32.  Little Sanctuary.

33.  Little Smith Street.

34.  Matthew Parker Street.

35.  Millbank (A3212)—

(a) from its junction with Dean Stanley Street north to its junction with Abingdon Street; and

(b) from the southern kerb line of Thorney Street and a point opposite to the southern kerb line of Horseferry Road and the southern kerb line of Lambeth Bridge.

36.  New Scotland Yard.

37.  Northumberland Avenue (A400), from the south side kerb line, to the centre line of the carriageway.

38.  Old Queen Street.

39.  Old Palace Yard (A3212).

40.  Palmer Street.

41.  Parliament Square.

42.  Parliament Street.

43.  Petty France.

44.  Queen Anne’s Gate.

45.  Richmond Terrace.

46.  Richmond Terrace Mews.

47.  Scotland Place.

48.  South Eaton Place (so far as it lies to the south west of a line down the centre of the carriageway) between its junction with Ebury Street and the party wall of Numbers 54 and 56 South Eaton Place.

49.  Spring Gardens, from its junction with The Mall, southwards.

50.  St. Ermin’s Hill.

51.  St. Margaret Street (A3212).

52.  Storey’s Gate

53.  The Sanctuary.

54.  Thorney Street.

55.  Tothill Street.

56.  Treasury Passage.

57.  Tufton Street, from its junction with Great College Street south to its junction with Great Peter Street.

58.  Vandon Passage.

59.  Vandon Street.

60.  Victoria Embankment (A3211), from Westminster Bridge to its junction with Northumberland Avenue.

61.  Victoria Street (A302), from its junction with Buckingham Gate, east to its junction with Broad Sanctuary.

62.  Westminster Bridge (A302).

63.  Whitehall (A3212).

64.  Whitehall Court.

65.  Whitehall Place.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes provision for various highways and road traffic matters arising out of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (“the 1999 Act”).

Schedule 22 to the 1999 Act amends Part X of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 so as to enable London borough councils and the Common Council of the City of London, instead of the Secretary of State, to make orders authorising the stopping up of highways. Article 2 makes transitional provision by enabling the Secretary of State to continue to deal with applications for such orders received by him before 3rd July 2000. Article 3(1) applies to Transport for London the requirement to consult the chief officer of police before making a traffic order and the Secretary of State’s power to make regulations prescribing the procedure for making traffic orders. Article 3(2) introduces Schedule 1 which makes amendments to the Local Authorities' Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1996 so as to apply them to Transport for London and make other consequential amendments.

Article 4 and Schedule 2 prescribe areas in the City of Westminster which, on grounds of national security, are not to be included in a special parking area and article 5 amends the Road Traffic (Parking Adjudicators) (London) Regulations 1993 so as to apply them to decisions made by Transport for London.

(1)

1999 c. 29.

(2)

1991 c. 40. Section 76A is inserted by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 section 286.

(3)

1990 c. 8.

(4)

1984 c. 27, paragraphs 20 and 23 of Schedule 9 were amended by the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51). Schedule 5, paragraph 4(39)(h) and (j) and by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22). Schedule 8, paragraph 80 and Schedule 9.

(5)

S.I. 1996/2489.

(6)

S.I. 1993/1202 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(7)

1985 c. 67.