Harrow, Amendments To Disabled & Free Parking Places

London Borough of Harrow

The Harrow (Free Parking Places) (Disabled Persons) (Amendment No. 21) Traffic Order 2025

The Harrow (Parking Places) (Amendment No. 45) Traffic Order 2025

The Harrow (Free Parking Places) (Amendment No. 18) Traffic Order 2025

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the London Borough of Harrow on 10th September 2025 made the above-mentioned Orders under sections 45, 46 and 49 and 124 and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended by section 8 of and Part 1 of Schedule 5 to the Local Government Act 1985 and all other enabling powers.

2. The general effect of the Disabled Persons Parking Places Order would be to amend the Harrow (Free Parking Places) (Disabled Persons) Traffic Order 2017 so as to:

   a. revoke the designation of parking places in certain lengths of streets specified in Schedule 1 to this Notice

   b. designate parking places in certain lengths of the streets specified in Schedule 2 to this Notice in which vehicles authorised by the Order may be left for any period without charge;

   c. provide that the parking places would operate “at any time”;

   d. specify, in respect of the parking places, that disabled persons’ vehicles displaying in the relevant position a disabled person’s badge (commonly referred “the Blue Badge”) issued by any local authority under the provisions of the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (England) Regulations 2000 may be left therein;

   e. provide that certain vehicles may wait in the parking places in certain circumstances, e.g. to allow persons to board or alight, to load or unload, etc.

3. The general effect of the Parking Places Order would be to amend the Harrow (Parking Places) Traffic Order 2020 so as to:

   a. reduce in length and redefine existing parking places in association with the provision of the Disabled Persons Parking Places in Schedule 3;

   b. increase in length existing resident parking places following the revocation of the no longer required disabled person parking places in Schedule 4;

4. The general effect of the Free Parking Places would be to reduce in length the free parking place adjacent No. 117 Whittlesea Road;

5. A copy of the Orders, which will come into operation on 19th September 2025 and of relevant previous Orders can be inspected until the end of 6 weeks from the date on which the Orders were made at Greenhill Library, Perceval Square, College Road, Harrow, HA1 1GX between the hours of 9.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 11.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m. Sunday, excluding Bank Holidays.

6. 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 Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, or that any of the relevant requirements thereof or of any relevant regulations made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the Order may, within 6 weeks of the date on which the Order was made, make application for the purpose to the High Court.

Dated 11th September 2025

Poonam Pathak

Strategic Head of Traffic, Highways and Asset Management

Place Directorate, PO Box 1362, Harrow, HA3 3RL

Schedule 1

Dale Avenue, adjacent No. 81;

Doncaster Gardens, adjacent No. 20;

Grant Road, adjacent No. 83;

Longley Road, adjacent No. 26;

Spencer Road, adjacent No. 96;

Springfield Road, adjacent No. 31;

The Highway, adjacent No. 65;

Vaughan Road, adjacent Nos. 46 and 52;

Woodlands, adjacent No. 16; and

Yeading Avenue, adjacent No. 20.

Schedule 2

Alexandra Avenue, adjacent No. 309;

Austen Road, adjacent No. 18;

Courtenay Avenue, adjacent No. 95;

Courtenay Gardens, adjacent No. 19;

Mollison Way, adjacent No. 82;

Rutland Road, adjacent No. 50;

Salmond Close, adjacent No. 11;

Shaftesbury Avenue, adjacent No. 216;

Stonegrove Gardens, adjacent No. 98;

Stuart Avenue, adjacent No. 4;

Temsford Close, adjacent No. 18;

The Meadow Way, adjacent No. 64;

Torbay Road, adjacent No. 19; and

Whittlesea Road, adjacent No. 117.

Schedule 3

Grant Road, adjacent No. 83; and

Rutland Road, adjacent No. 50.

Schedule 4

Springfield Road, adjacent No. 31; and

Vaughan Road, adjacent Nos. 46 and 52.