Various Streets in Blackpool - Off Street Parking Places Order

THE BOROUGH OF BLACKPOOL

OFF STREET PARKING PLACES AND REVOCATIONS ORDER 2024

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Blackpool Borough Council has on 12 March 2025 made the Order under powers contained in the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (as amended) to make the Borough of Blackpool (Off Street Parking Places) and (Revocations) Order 2024 (“the Order”) which provide as follows:

The Order replaces the Borough of Blackpool (Off Street Parking Places) and (Revocations) order 2017 and Borough of Blackpool (Off Street Parking Places) and (Revocations) order 2014 (“the Original Orders” The Original Orders are to be revoked.

The Order relates to the following Parking Places in the Borough:

West Street, Victory Road, Talbot Road Surface, Bispham Village, Bethesda Square, Dickson Road, Central Multi Storey, Gynn Square, East Topping Street, Queen Street, Talbot Road Multi Storey, Filey Place, Chapel Street Multi Storey, Bonney Street, Central Car Park, Bolton Street, Lytham Road, South Beach, South Car Park, Cocker Square, Cocker Street, South King Street, Alfred Street, Bank Street, Foxhall Village, Seasiders Way, Bloomfield Road, Lonsdale, Temple Street, Stanley Park, Albert Road Charles Street and Gorton Street

The Order will come into force on 31 March 2025.

The general effect of the Order is as follows:

(a) To confirm and update the plans to which the parking order relates

(b) To confirm and update opening hours and charging times re off street parking places

(c)  To confirm and update the use of virtual parking tickets on off street parking places

(d)  To confirm and update the use of permits including the use of virtual permits on various parking places as outlined in the Schedules to the Proposed Order

(e)  Technical changes to the order to update payment methods available in car parks

(f)  Changes to the Interpretation and Definitions to definitions for introduce electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, mobile parking payment scheme, parent and child parking bay, electric vehicle charging place, electric vehicle charging point, virtual permit, virtual season ticket and virtual season ticket into the Proposed Order

A copy of the Borough of Blackpool Consolidated Traffic Management Order 2024 as made (including the plans to the Order may be inspected as at Customer First, Municipal Buildings, Corporation Street, Blackpool, FY1 1NF. Copies of the made Order and plan can also be obtained by calling 01253 477477 (between 9am and 5pm Mondays to Fridays); or emailing traffic.management@blackpool.gov.uk. Please quote the Borough of Blackpool Consolidated Traffic Management Order 2024. The Order encompasses the whole of the Borough of Blackpool.

Any person desiring to question the validity of the Order or of any provision contained therein on the grounds that it is not within the relevant powers of the Act of 1984 or that any relevant requirements thereof or any relevant regulations made thereunder have not been complied with in relation to the Order may, within six weeks from the date on which the Order was made, make application for the purpose to the High Court.

DATED this 18 day of March 2025

John Blackledge, Director of Community & Environmental Services, PO Box 4, Blackpool, FY1 1NA