Holyrood Week & National Service of Thanksgiving - Traffic Restrictions in Edinburgh

THE CITY OF EDINBURGH

COUNCIL (HOLYROOD WEEK & NATIONAL SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING) (TEMPORARY ROAD RESTRICTION AND TRAFFIC REGULATION) ORDER 2023 – TEMP/23/161

The Council has made an order under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended, the effect of which will be that for a temporary period, to facilitate the holding of Holyrood Week & National Service of Thanksgiving, no person shall: (a) drive or cause or permit any motor vehicle to be driven on the section of road described in Sch 1, where closures apply to roads in their entirety unless otherwise stated; (b) drive or cause or permit any motor vehicle to be driven on the length of road specified in column 1 of Sch 2, otherwise than in the direction specified opposite in the corresponding line of column 2 of the said Schedule; & (c) except with the permission of a Parking Attendant, cause or permit any vehicle to wait or load onto or unload from any vehicle on the parts of the roads described in Sch 3, where prohibitions apply to both sides of the roads in their entirety unless otherwise stated.

The Order shall have effect during the hours and on the dates specified in the Schedules. The alternative route for vehicular traffic is via The Mound, Hanover St, George St, Charlotte Sq, Sth Charlotte St, Princes St, Lothian Rd, Castle Ter, Lady Lawson St, West Port, Grassmarket, Cowgate, Pleasance, St Leonard’s St, Dalkeith Rd, Peffermill Rd, Duddingston Rd West, Willowbrae Rd, London Rd, Leith Walk, Leith St, York Pl & Queen St.

The following restrictions will be suspended between 00:01hrs & 08:00hrs on 3/7/23 and between 00:01hrs on 5/7/23 & 04:00hrs on 6/7/23: bus, taxi and cycle lane & one-way on Johnston Ter, to facilitate two-way traffic; one-way on Niddry St, to facilitate access to/from Cowgate; one-way on Abbeyhill Cres, to facilitate access to/from Calton Rd; prohibition of motor vehicles on High St, to facilitate vehicles access; & one-way on Cockburn St, to facilitate two-way access. Existing restrictions may be suspended on any of the affected sections of road described in Sch 3.

SCHEDULE 1 PROHIBITION OF MOTOR VEHICLES:

(A) from 07:00hrs on 28/6/23 to 16:00hrs on 7/7/23 on: (i) Abbey Strand; (ii) North Approach; & (iii) Horse Wynd;

(B) from 00:01hrs on 3/7/23 to 10:00hrs on 6/7/23 on: St Giles’ St;

(C) from 00:01hrs to 08:00hrs on 3/7/23 & 00:01hrs on 4/7/23 to 04:00hrs on 6/7/23 on: St John St, from its jnct with Canongate, southwards for 50m;

(D) from 00:01hrs to 08:00hrs on 3/7/23 & 00:01hrs on 5/7/23 to 04:00hrs on 6/7/23 on: (i) King’s Bridge; (ii) Johnston Ter; (iii) Castle Wynd North Steps; (iv) Upper Bow; (v) Lawnmarket; (vi) Castlehill; (vii) Ramsay Lane; (viii) Ramsay Garden; (ix) Mound Pl; (x) Old Fishmarket Close, from its jnct with Cowgate, northwards for 75m; (xi) Bank St; (xii) North Bank St; (xiii) George IV Bridge, from Chambers St to Lawnmarket; (xiv) Victoria St; (xv) High St; (xvi) West Parliament Sq; (xvii) Parliament Sq; (xviii) Cockburn St; (xix) North Bridge; (xx) South Bridge, from the point it adjoins North Bridge, southwards to its jnct with Blair St; (xxi) Niddry St, from its jnct with High St, southwards for 50m; (xxii) Blackfriars St, from High St to New Skinner’s Close; (xxiii) Canongate; (xxiv) Jeffrey St, from its jnct with High St, northwards for 50m; (xxv) St Mary’s St, from High St to Boyd’s Entry; (xxvi) Cranston St; (xxvii) New St, from Canongate to East Market St; (xxviii) Old Tolbooth Wynd, from its jnct with Canongate, northwards for 50m; (xxix) Calton Rd, from Abbeyhill to Lochend Close; (xxx) Abbeyhill; (xxxi) Brand Pl; (xxxii) Abbey Mount; (xxxiii) Abbeyhill Cres; (xxxiv) Croft-anRigh; (xxxv) Queen’s Drv; (xxxvi) Duke’s Walk; (xxxvii) East Market St; & (xxxviii) King’s Stables Rd; & (E) from 13:00hrs to 19:00hrs on 4/7/23 on: Holyrood Gait (except local access and drop-off/collection of event related guests).

SCHEDULE 2 ONE-WAY ROADS: from 13:00hrs to 19:00hrs on 4/7/23: 

SCHEDULE 3 PROHIBITION OF WAITING, LOADING & UNLOADING:

(A) from 07:00hrs on 28/6/23 to 16:00hrs on 7/7/23 on: (i) Abbey Strand; (ii) North Approach; (iii) Abbeyhill, both sides, from Canongate to Croft-an-Righ; (iv) Croft-an-Righ; (v) Canongate, both sides, from its jnct with Abbeyhill, westwards for 50m (incl. taxi rank); & (vi) Horse Wynd (except disabled bay);

(B) from 00:01hrs on 30/6/23 to 16:00hrs on 7/7/23 on: St Giles’ St, nth side of the east-west leg, in its entirety;

(C) from 18:30hrs on 30/6/23 to 07:00hrs on 6/7/23 on: (i) Bank St; (ii) Nth Bank St; (iii) Lawnmarket; (iv) High St; (v) West Parliament Sq, in its entirety; (vi) Parliament Sq, in its entirety; (vii) Cockburn St; (viii) Canongate, both sides, from 50m west of its jnct with Abbeyhill, westwards to the point it adjoins High St; (ix) Abbeyhill, both sides, from Croft-an-Righ to Brand Pl; (x) Brand Pl; (xi) Abbey Mount; (xii) Queen’s Drv; & (xiii) Duke’s Walk;

(D) from 00:01hrs on 2/7/23 to 10:00hrs on 6/7/23 on: St Giles St: (1) sth side of the east-west leg, in its entirety; & (2) both sides of the north-south leg, in its entirety;

(E) from 18:30hrs on 2/7/23 to 08:00hrs on 3/7/23 and from 18:30hrs on 3/7/23 to 04:00hrs on 6/7/23 on: (i) King’s Bridge; (ii) Johnston Ter; (iii) Castlehill; (iv) Ramsay Lane; (v) Mound Pl: (1) nth side, in its entirety; & (2) sth side, from 21m west of its jnct with Nth Bank St, westwards to the point it adjoins Ramsay Lane; (vi) Upper Bow; (vii) George IV Bridge; (viii) Nth Bridge; (ix) Sth Bridge, both sides, from the point it adjoins Nth Bridge, southwards to its jnct with Blair St; (x) Blair St; (xi) Niddry St, both sides, from its jnct with High St, southwards for 50m; (xii) Blackfriars St, both sides, from High St to New Skinner’s Close; (xiii) Jeffrey St; (xiv) St Mary’s St; (xv) Cranston St; (xvi) New St, both sides, from Canongate to East Market St; (xvii) Old Tolbooth Wynd, both sides, from its jnct with High St, northwards for 50m; (xviii) St John St, both sides, from its jnct with Canongate, southwards for 50m; (xix) Calton Rd, both sides, from Abbeyhill to Lochend Close; (xx) East Market St (except taxi rank on sth side); (xxi) King’s Stables Rd; & (xxii) Regent Rd, both sides, from its jnct with Abbey Mount, westwards for 168m;

(F) from 00:01hrs on 3/7/23 to 07:00hrs on 6/7/23 on: Horse Wynd (disabled bay on east side);

(G) from 04:00hrs on 3/7/23 to 16:00hrs on 7/7/23 on: Fettes Ave, both sides, from its jnct with Carrington Rd, southwards for 250m;

(H) from 04:00hrs on 4/7/23 to 16:00hrs on 7/7/23 on: Holyrood Park Rd; (I) from 04:00hrs to 19:00hrs on 4/7/23 on: (i) Holyrood Gait; & (ii) Holyrood Rd; &

(J) from 00:01hrs to 23:59hrs on 5/7/23 on: (i) Carrington Rd; & (ii) Chambers St, from the easternmost extent of the central reservation parking bays between Guthrie St & West College St, westwards for 20m.