Statutory Instruments
2014 No. 2460
Highways, England
The Traffic Management (Cheshire East Borough Council) Permit Scheme Order 2014
Made
11th September 2014
Coming into force
3rd November 2014
The Secretary of State for Transport having approved the Cheshire East 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 (Cheshire East Borough Council) Permit Scheme Order 2014 and comes into force on 3rd November 2014.
Interpretation
2. In this Order—
“the Cheshire East Borough Council Permit Scheme ” means the permit scheme set out in the Schedule to this Order in terms commonly known as the “West and Shires Permit (WaSP) Scheme” which was prepared and submitted to the Secretary of State by Cheshire East 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 Cheshire East Borough Council Permit Scheme comes into effect on 3th November 2014.
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 Cheshire East Borough Council Permit Scheme.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Robert Goodwill
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
11th September 2014
Article 2
SCHEDULETHE CHESHIRE EAST BOROUGH COUNCIL PERMIT SCHEME
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order gives effect to the Cheshire East Borough Council Permit Scheme.
The Cheshire East Borough Council Permit Scheme is designed to control the carrying out of works in specified streets in Cheshire East by imposing an obligation to obtain a permit from Cheshire East Borough Council before undertaking the works.
Article 3 gives effect to the permit scheme, which will come into effect on 3rd November 2014. 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 Cheshire East Borough Council Permit Scheme.
A copy of the Cheshire East Borough Council Permit Scheme is deposited and can be inspected at the offices of Cheshire East Borough Council (Head Office), Westfields, Middlewich Road, Sandbach, CW11 1HZ and is available to inspect on the Council’s website http://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk.