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London Local Authorities and Transport for London Act 2008

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10Overhanging trees etc. which obstruct views of traffic signs, etc.

(1)Section 154(1) of the Highways Act 1980 (c. 66) (cutting or felling trees etc. that overhang or are a danger to roads or footpaths) shall apply as respects—

(a)a highway for which a London authority are the highway authority;

(b)any road or footpath in a borough which is not a highway,

in accordance with subsection (2) below.

(2)For the words from “overhangs a highway or any other road” to “horse-riders,” there is substituted—

“(a)overhangs a highway or any other road or footpath to which the public has access so as to endanger or obstruct the passage of vehicles or pedestrians,

(b)obstructs or interferes with the view of drivers of vehicles or the light from a public lamp,

(c)overhangs a highway so as to endanger or obstruct the passage of horse-riders,

(d)obstructs or interferes with the view of a traffic sign which drivers of vehicles, cyclists or pedestrians have or would otherwise have, or

(e)prevents or hampers the operation of any device used for obtaining evidence in relation to contraventions of law relating to the use of vehicles,”.

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