LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN

The A503 Local Road (Camden) Red Route and (Side Roads) Experimental Traffic Order 1998

Notice is hereby given that the Council of the London Borough of Camden on 16th February 1998, made the above-mentioned Order under sections 9 and 10 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended by the Local Government Act 1985, and all other enabling powers.   The general nature and effect of the Order will be to introduce new Red Route controls on A503 Camden Road (between its junction with Camden Street and the borough boundary with the London Borough of Islington), and parts of the side roads adjacent to that road in Camden.   Those controls will include:   Double red line controls prohibiting stopping at any time at locations where stationary vehicles cause danger or congestion at any time.   Areas marked on the carriageway as “boxes” where parking and loading and unloading activities can take place at various times and for various periods, at locations and times where stationary vehicles do not cause congestion or danger.   Disabled person’s vehicles will be able to park in parking boxes for unlimited periods when these boxes operate.   Exemptions to the new Red Route controls will be few but do allow for boarding and alighting from buses, taxis and disabled passengers from disabled person’s vehicles.   The roads affected by the Order are part of Camden Road (between its junction with Camden Street and the borough boundary with the London Borough of Islington), Torriano Avenue, Camden Park Road, Sandall Road, Rochester Road, Rochester Square, St. Pancras Way, Rousden Street, Royal College Street, Murray Street, Lyme Street, unnamed road, Rochester Place, Bonny Street.   The Order provides that, in pursuance of section 10(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, the Director of the Council’s Environment Department, or some person authorised in that behalf by him and after consulting with the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and obtaining the consent of the Traffic Director for London, may modify or suspend any provision of this Order or any provisions thereof if it appears essential to do so for certain purposes.   A copy of the Order, which will come into force on 1st March 1998, plans showing the location and the Council’s statement of reasons for making the Order, may be inspected during normal office hours for a period of 6 months from that date, at the Environment Department Reception, Fifth Floor, Camden Town Hall, Argyle Street Entrance, London WC1H 8EQ.   Any person wanting 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 regulations made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the Order, may, within 6 weeks of the date on which the Order was made, make application for the purpose to the High Court.   If the provisions of the Order continue for a period of not less than 6 months from the coming into force of the Order or any modification, the Director of Environment Department, after obtaining the consent of the Traffic Director for London will consider in due course whether the provisions of the Order, as modified, should be reproduced and continued in force indefinitely, by means of an Order made under section 6 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. Persons wanting to object or make other representations to the making of the Order under section 6 of said Act, for the purposes of such reproduction and continuation in force, may, within the period of 6 months, send a statement in writing and specify the grounds thereof of any objection and address it to the Director of Environment Department, Traffic Management Team, Fourth Floor, Camden Town Hall, Argyle Street Entrance, London WC1H 8EQ. M. Gilks, Director of Environment Department (the officer appointed for this purpose).