LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN

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

Notice is hereby given that the Council of the London Borough of Camden on 11th May 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 Hampstead Road, Camden High Street, Camden Street, Oakley Square, Lidlington Place and part of the side roads to those roads 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/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 all or part of: Camden High Street, Camden Street (between the south-eastern kerb-line of Camden Road and its junction with Crowndale Road), Cardington Street, Carol Street, Crowndale Road, Delancey Street, Drummond Street, Eversholt Street, Georgiana Street, Granby Terrace, Greenland Road, Greenland Street, Hampstead Road, Harrington Square, Lidlington Place, Miller Street, Mornington Crescent, Netley Street, Oakley Square, Parkway, Plender Street, Pratt Street, Robert Street, St. Martin’s Close, Symes Mews, Varndell Street, William Road.   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 25th May 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