GREENWICH COUNCIL

The Greenwich (Free Parking Places) (Disabled Persons) (Amendment No.   ) Order 199 

Notice is hereby given that Greenwich Council, hereinafter called “the Council” propose to make 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 the Local Government Act 1985 and the Road Traffic Act 1991.   2. The general effect of the Order would be to further amend the Greenwich (Free Parking Places) (Disabled Persons) Order 1994 so as to:   (a) designate disabled persons parking places, shown in the Schedule to this notice, in which vehicles authorised by the Order may be left for any period during the permitted hours without charge;   (b) provide that each parking place would operate at any time (Christmas Day, Good Friday and Bank Holidays excepted);   (c) specify, in respect of each parking place, 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 each parking place in certain circumstances, e.g., to allow persons to board or alight (maximum 2 minutes), to load or unload (maximum 20 minutes), etc.   3. The prohibition referred to in paragraph 2 would not apply in relation to vehicles being used for ambulance, fire brigade or police purposes in certain circumstances.   4. The above-mentioned prohibition would not apply to anything done:   (i)  with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a parking attendant;   (ii) in accordance with any restriction or requirement indicated by traffic signs placed on the highway by or on behalf of the Metropolitan Police.   5. A copy of the proposed Order, the Order being amended and the Council’s statement of reasons for proposing to make the Order together with plans showing the locations, can be inspected during normal office hours on Mondays to Fridays inclusive, at Development Services, Greenwich Council, Peggy Middleton House, 50 Woolwich New Road, Woolwich SE18 6HQ.   A copy of the proposed Order and plans showing the locations can also be inspected at all local libraries.   6. Any person desiring to object to the proposed Order or make other representation, should send a statement in writing of either their objection and the grounds thereof or of their representation to the Councils’ Agents, TMO Services, 9 Osprey Close, Whitstable, Kent CT5 4DT, quoting Ref. LBG/1111, by 23rd April 1998.   7. Persons objecting to the proposed Order should be aware that in view of the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, this Council would be legally obliged to make any comments received in response to this notice, open to public inspection. J. Barnes, Borough Secretary and Solicitor Town Hall, Wellington Street,   Woolwich SE18 6PW.

Schedule

  Burrage Road, the west side, from a point opposite the southern flank wall of No. 182 Burrage Road extending northward for a distance of 6 metres.   Crumpsall Street, the east side, from a point 1 metre south-east of a point opposite the party wall of Nos. 3 and 5 Crumpsall Street extending northward for a distance of 6 metres.   Eynsham Drive, the north-west side, from a point 4 metres north-east of the south-western flank wall of No. 118 Eynsham Drive extending north-eastward for a distance of 6 metres.   Griffin Road, the north-west side, from a point 0.5 metres south-west of a point opposite the party wall of Nos. 30 and 32 Griffin Road extending north-eastward for a distance of 6 metres.   Holburne Road, the south-west side, from a point 2 metres south-east of a point opposite the north-western flank wall of No. 150 Holburne Road extending south-eastward for a distance of 6 metres.   Old Dover Road, the south-west side, from a point 1.65 metres south-east of a point opposite the party wall of Nos. 16 and 18 Old Dover Road extending south-eastward for a distance of 6 metres.   Pound Park Road, the south-west side, from a point 0.5 metres north-west of a point oppposite the south-eastern flank wall of No. 32 Pound Park Road extending north-westward for a distance of 6 metres.   Rochdale Road, the west side, from a point 0.7 metres south of a point opposite the party wall of Nos. 26 and 28 Rochdale Road extending northward for a distance of 6 metres.   Sherington Road, the west side, from a point 0.3 metres north of a point opposite the party wall of Nos. 35 and 37 Sherington Road extending southward for a distance of 6 metres.   Troughton Road, the south-east side, from a point 0.65 metres south-west of a point opposite the party wall of Nos. 60 and 62 Troughton Road extending north-eastward for a distance of 6 metres.   Waverley Crescent, the south-east side, from a point opposite the party wall of Nos. 24 and 26 Waverley Crescent extending north-eastward for a distance of 6 metres.   Waverley Road, the east side, from a point 0.5 metres south of a point opposite the party wall of Nos. 103 and 105 Waverley Road extending northward for a distance of 6 metres.   Wynford Way, the south-west side, from a point 8 metres south-east of a point opposite the south-eastern flank wall of No. 45 Littlemead extending south-eastward for a distance of 6 metres. 2nd April 1998.