The County Borough of Conwy (Various Roads Conwy) (Prohibition and Restriction of Waiting) Order 2024 - Part 1
The Conwy County Borough Council (hereinafter referred to as "the Council") in exercise of its powers under Sections 1 and 2 (and Part IV of Schedule 9) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act of 1984"), and of all other enabling powers and after consultation with the Chief Officer of Police in accordance with Part III of Schedule 9 to the Act of 1984 hereby makes the following Order:-
- 1. This Order shall come into operation on the day of Two thousand and twenty four and may be cited as "The County Borough of Conwy (Various Roads Conwy) (Prohibition and Restriction of Waiting) Order 2024"- Part 1.
- 2.
- (1) In this Order:-
"authorised cab rank" means any area of carriageway which is comprised within and indicated by a road marking complying with diagram 1028.2 in Schedule 6 of the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016;
"authorised parking place" means any parking place on a road authorised or designated by an Order made or having effect as if made under the Act of 1984;
"bus stop area" means any area of carriageway in any length of road specified in any Article or Schedule hereto intended for the waiting of buses which is comprised within or indicated by a road marking complying with either diagrams 1025.1, 1025.3, 1025.4 in Schedule 6 to the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016;
"hackney carriage" has the same meaning as in Section 38(1) of the Vehicles (Excise) Act, 1971;
"disabled person's badge" has the same meaning as in the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Wales) Regulations 2000;
"parking disc" has the same meaning as in Regulation 8 of the Local Authorities’ Traffic Orders (Exemptions for Disabled Persons) (Wales) Regulations 2000;
- (2) For the purpose of this Order a vehicle shall be regarded as displaying a disabled person's badge in the relevant position, if -
- (a) the badge has not ceased to be in force; and
- (b)
- (i) the badge is exhibited on the dashboard or fascia of the vehicle, or
- (ii) where the vehicle is not fitted with a dashboard or fascia, the badge is exhibited in a conspicuous position on the front or near side of the vehicle, so that the front of the badge is clearly legible from outside the vehicle.
- (3) For the purposes of this Order a vehicle shall be regarded as displaying a parking disc in the relevant position if:-
- (a) the disc is exhibited on the dashboard or fascia of the vehicle, or
- (b) where the vehicle is not fitted with a dashboard or fascia the disc is clearly exhibited in a conspicuous position on the vehicle.
- (4) Except where otherwise stated any reference in this Order to a numbered Article or Schedule is a reference to the Article or Schedule bearing that number in this Order.
- 3. Save as provided in Article 7 of this Order no person shall, except upon the direction or with the permission of a police constable or civil enforcement officer in uniform, cause or permit any vehicle to wait at any time in the lengths of road specified in Schedule 1.
- 4. Save as provided in Article 7 of this Order no person shall, except upon the direction or with the permission of a police constable or civil enforcement officer in uniform, cause or permit any caravan or motor caravan to wait at any time during the hours of 11pm to 8am in the length of road specified in Schedule 2
- 5. Save as provided in Article 8 of this Order no person shall, except upon the direction or with the permission of a police constable or civil enforcement officer in uniform, cause or permit any vehicle to load or unload at any time in the lengths of road specified in Schedule 3.
- 6. Save as provided in Article 7 of this Order no person shall, except upon the direction or with the permission of a police constable or civil enforcement officer in uniform, cause or permit any vehicle to wait for a longer period than 60 minutes, 8am to 6pm with no return within 120 minutes in the lengths of road specified in Schedule 4.
- 7.
- (1) Nothing in Article 3, 4 and 6 of this Order shall render it unlawful to cause or permit any vehicle to wait in the length(s) of road referred to therein for so long as may be necessary to enable:-
- (a) A person to board or alight from the vehicle.
- (b) Goods to be loaded on to or unloaded from the vehicle.
- (c) The vehicle, if it cannot conveniently be used for such purposes in any other road, to be used in connection with any of the following operations, namely:-
- (i) Building, industrial or demolition operations.
- (ii) The removal of any obstruction to traffic.
- (iii) The maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of the said length(s) of road.
- (iv) The laying, erection, alteration or repair, in or in land adjacent to the said length(s) of road, of any sewer or of any main pipe or apparatus for the supplying of gas, water, or electricity, or of any Telecommunications apparatus as defined in the Telecommunications Act, 1984.
- (d) The vehicle, if it cannot conveniently be used for such purposes in any other road to be used in the service of a local authority or a public utility company in pursuance of statutory powers or duties.
- (e) The vehicle of a universal service provider under the Section 125 of the Postal Services Act 2000
- (f) The vehicle to wait at or near to any premises situated on or adjacent to the said length(s) of road for so long as such waiting by that vehicle is reasonably necessary in connection with any wedding or funeral.
- (g) The vehicle to be used for fire brigade, police or ambulance purposes.
- (2) Nothing in Article 3 of this Order shall render it unlawful to cause or permit a disabled person's vehicle which displays in the relevant position a disabled person's badge, and a parking disc (on which the driver, or other person in charge of the vehicle has marked the time at which the period of waiting began), to wait in the length(s) of road referred to in that Article for a period not exceeding 3 hours (not being a period separated by an interval of less than 1 hour from a previous period of waiting by the same vehicle in the same day).
Nothing in Article 6 of this Order shall render it unlawful to cause or permit a disabled person's vehicle which displays in the relevant position a disabled person's badge to wait for an unlimited length of time in the length of road referred to in that Article.
- 8.
- (1) Nothing in Article 5 of this Order shall render it unlawful to cause or permit any vehicle to wait in the length(s) of road referred to therein for so long as may be necessary to enable:-
- (a) The vehicle, if it cannot conveniently be used for such purposes in any other road, to be used in connection with any of the following operations, namely:-
- (i) Building, industrial or demolition operations.
- (ii) The removal of any obstruction to traffic.
- (iii) The maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of the said length(s) of road.
- (iv) The laying, erection, alteration or repair, in or in land adjacent to the said length(s) of road, of any sewer or of any main pipe or apparatus for the supplying of gas, water, or electricity, or of any Telecommunications apparatus as defined in the Telecommunications Act, 1984.
- (v) The vehicle, if it cannot conveniently be used for such purposes in any other road to be used in the service of a local authority or a public utility company in pursuance of statutory powers or duties.
- (b) The vehicle of a universal service provider under the Section 125 of the Postal Services Act 2000
- (c) The vehicle to wait at or near to any premises situated on or adjacent to the said length(s) of road for so long as such waiting by that vehicle is reasonably necessary in connection with any wedding or funeral.
- (d) The vehicle to be used for fire brigade, police or ambulance purposes.
- (e) A vehicle waiting when the person in control of the vehicle is required to stop by law, or is obliged to stop in order to avoid an accident or is prevented from proceeding by circumstances outside their control.
- 9. Insofar as any provision of this Order conflicts with a proviso which is contained in an Order made or having effect as if made under the Act of 1984 and existing at the time when this Order comes into operation, and which imposes a restriction or prohibition on vehicles other than stage carriages or express carriages in a bus stop area or grants an exemption from such restriction or prohibition, that provision of that Order shall prevail.
- 10. The prohibition and restrictions imposed by this Order shall be in addition to and not in derogation from any restriction or requirement imposed by any regulations made or having effect as if made under the Act of 1984 or by or under any other enactment.
GIVEN under the Common Seal of Conwy County Borough Council the 14th day of December Two thousand and twenty three.
Schedule 1 - No waiting at any time
Beacons Way, Conwy
- South east side: From a point 20 metres north east of its junction with Morlais to a point 145 metres north west of Meirion Drive
- Both sides: from its junction with Meirion Drive for a distance of 10 metres in a north westerly direction.
Morlais, Conwy
- Both sides: from its junction with Beacons Way for a distance of 5 metres in a south easterly direction.
Ellis Way, Conwy
- Both sides: from its junction with Meirion Drive for a distance of 10 metres in a north westerly direction.
- North side: from a point 10metres west of its junction with Telford Close for a distance of 87 metres in an easterly direction.
- South side: from its junction with Morfa Drive for a distance of 20 metres in a westerly direction.
Telford Close, Conwy
- Both Sides: from its junction with Ellis Way for a distance of 5 metres in a northerly direction.
Morfa Drive, Conwy
- Both sides; from its junction with Ellis Way for a distance of 15 metres in a southerly direction.
Meirion Drive, Conwy
- Both sides: from its junction with Ellis Way for a distance of 10 metres in a south westerly and north easterly direction.
Oakwood Lane
- East side: From its junction with Sychnant Pass Road for a distance of 10 metres in a south westerly direction.
Sychnant Pass Road
- South east side: From its junction with Oakwood Lane for a distance of 26 metres.
Ysgol Aberconwy access road off Morfa Drive
- Both sides; from its junction with Morfa Drive for a distance of 30 metres in an easterly direction.
Pen Garth
- North side: from its junction with St Agnes Road for a distance of 12 metres in a westerly direction.
Castle Square, Conwy
- North side: from its junction with Rose Hill Street for a distance of 37 metres in an easterly direction.
York Place
- South west side: from a point 11 metres south east of its junction with Chapel Street for a distance of 23 metres in a south easterly direction.
Upper Gate Street, Conwy
- South east side: from its junction with St Agnes Road for a distance of 20 metres in a north easterly direction.
Hen Bont, Capel Curig
- Both sides; from a point 55metres north of its junction with the A4086 for a distance of 62m in a northerly direction.
Schedule 2 - Prohibition of waiting of Motor Homes and Caravans at any time during the hours of 11pm to 8am
Benarth Road
- South side: From a point 12 metres south-east of its junction with Llanrwst Road to Benarth Lodge, a distance of 260 metres.
Schedule 3 - No Loading/ Unloading at any time
Castle Square
- West side: from its junction with Rose Hill Street for a distance of 32 metres in a southerly direction.
Rose Hill Street
- South Side: from its junction with Castle Square for a distance of 12 metres in a westerly direction.
Schedule 4 - Limited Waiting 60 minutes 8am - 6pm No return 120 minutes
York Place, Conwy
- South west side; from a point 11m south east of its junction with Chapel Street for a distance of 16m in a south easterly direction.
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