Statutory Instruments

2014 No. 3108

Highways, England

The Traffic Management (Warrington Borough Council) Permit Scheme Order 2014

Made

18th November 2014

Coming into force

2nd February 2015

The Secretary of State for Transport having approved the Warrington Borough Council Permit Scheme under section 34(2) of the Traffic Management Act 2004(1) makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 34(4) and (5) and 39(2) of that Act.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Traffic Management (Warrington Borough Council) Permit Scheme Order 2014 and comes into force on 2nd February 2015.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the Warrington Borough Council Permit Scheme” means the permit scheme set out in the Schedule to this Order which was prepared and submitted to the Secretary of State by Warrington Borough Council and has been approved by the Secretary of State; and

“specified streets” has the meaning given by regulation 8 of the Traffic Management Permit Scheme (England) Regulations 2007(2).

Commencement of Permit Scheme

3.  The Warrington Borough Council Permit Scheme comes into effect on 2nd February 2015.

Application of Part 8 of the Traffic Management Permit Scheme (England) Regulations 2007

4.  Part 8 of the Traffic Management Permit Scheme (England) Regulations 2007 shall apply to the specified streets within the Warrington Borough Council Permit Scheme.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Robert Goodwill

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

18th November 2014

Article 2

SCHEDULETHE WARRINGTON BOROUGH COUNCIL PERMIT SCHEME

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect to the Warrington Borough Council Permit Scheme.

The Warrington Borough Council Permit Scheme is designed to control the carrying out of works in specified streets in Warrington Borough by imposing an obligation to obtain a permit from Warrington Borough Council before undertaking the works.

Article 3 gives effect to the permit scheme, which will come into effect on 2nd February 2015. The permit scheme referred to in this article is set out in the Schedule to the Order.

Article 4 applies Part 8 of the Traffic Management Permit Scheme (England) Regulations 2007 (which makes provision for the disapplication and modification of enactments in relation to specified works in specified streets) to the specified works and specified streets within the Warrington Borough Council Permit Scheme.

A copy of the Warrington Borough Council Permit Scheme is deposited and can be inspected at Warrington Borough Council, Woolston Depot, Hawthorne Avenue, Warrington, WA1 4AL and is available to inspect on the Council’s website http://www.warrington.gov.uk/roadworks