Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997

205 Provision of amenity for road reserved to pedestrians

(1) Where an order has been made under section 203(2) in relation to a road, a competent authority may carry out and maintain any such works on or in the road, or place on or in it any such objects or structures, as appear to them—

(a) to be expedient for the purposes of—

(i) giving effect to the order, or

(ii) enhancing the amenity of the road and its immediate surroundings, or

(b) to be otherwise desirable for a purpose beneficial to the public.

(2) The powers exercisable by a competent authority under this section include—

(a) laying out any part of the road with lawns, trees, shrubs and flowerbeds, and

(b) providing facilities for recreation or refreshment.

(3) A competent authority may so exercise their powers under this section as to restrict the access of the public to any part of the road, but shall not so exercise them as—

(a) to prevent persons from entering the road at any place where they could enter it before the order under section 203 was made,

(b) to prevent the passage of the public along the road,

(c) to prevent normal access by pedestrians to premises adjoining the road,

(d) to prevent any use of vehicles which is permitted by an order made under section 203 and applying to the road,

(e) to prevent statutory undertakers from having access to any works of theirs under, in, on, over, along or across the road, or

(f) to prevent the operator of any telecommunications code system from having access to any works of his under, in, on, over, along or across the road.

(4) An order under section 203(6) may make provision requiring the removal of any obstruction of the road resulting from the exercise by a competent authority of their powers under this section.

(5) The competent authorities for the purposes of this section are local authorities, and a competent authority shall not exercise any powers conferred by this section, if they are not the roads authority, without obtaining the consent of that authority.