Westminster - Multiple Traffic Notices

CITY OF WESTMINSTER
CYCLEWAY C43 - HYDE PARK TO MARYLEBONE (SECTION A, PHASES 1 - 5)
ARCHERY CLOSE, CONNAUGHT SQUARE, CONNAUGHT STREET, KENDAL STREET, PORCHESTER PLACE AND PORTSEA PLACE

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Westminster City Council on 15th September 2025 made the following Orders under sections 6, 45, 46, 49 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended:

• The City of Westminster (Car Club Parking Places) (No. 18) Order 2025;

• The City of Westminster (Free Parking Places) (Disabled Permit Parking Places) (Amendment No. 113) Order 2025;

• The City of Westminster (Parking Places) (F Zone) (Amendment No. 135) Order 2025;

• The City of Westminster (Prescribed Routes) (No. 9) Traffic Order 2025; and

• The City of Westminster (Waiting and Loading Restriction) (Amendment No. 575) Order 2025.

2. The general effect of the Orders, in connection with the introduction of the Hyde Park to Marylebone Cycleway (C43), will be to:

(a) revise existing parking places and waiting and loading restrictions in Archery Close, Connaught Square (north-western arm), Connaught Street, Kendal Street, Porchester Place and Portsea Place, as set out in the Schedule to this Notice; and

(b) introduce a mandatory contra-flow cycle lane in Portsea Place.

Please note that the Orders affecting the remaining lengths of Connaught Square, Seymour Street and Stanhope Place, as set out in the Notice of Proposals published on 30th April 2025, will be made in due course.

3. The Orders, which will come into force on 18th September 2025, and other documents giving more detailed particulars of the Orders are available for inspection until 27th October 2025 at https://westminstertransportationservices.co.uk/notices and, in person by appointment only, at Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6QP, between 9.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays (except bank / public holidays). Please telephone (020) 3116 9388 or email tmo.westminster@wsp.com to arrange an appointment.

4. Any person desiring to question the validity of the Orders 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 have not been complied with in relation to the Orders may, within six weeks from the date on which the Orders were made, make application for the purpose to the High Court.

Dated 17th September 2025

JONATHAN ROWING, Head of Parking
(The officer appointed for this purpose)

SCHEDULE

Road - Location - Proposed measure

Archery Close - junction with Connaught Street and narrow north-western section - formalise double yellow line “at any time” waiting restrictions.

Connaught Square (north-western arm) - south-east side, opposite Nos. 17 to 20 - remove residents’ parking place (10 metres); introduce pay-by-phone parking place (10 metres) opposite Nos. 18 and 19; introduce double yellow line “at any time” waiting and loading restrictions, except for a length of 11.3 metres opposite No. 17 where “at any time” loading restrictions will not be introduced.

north-west side, outside Nos. 17 to 22 - shorten residents’ parking place by 0.5 metres; extend double yellow line “at any time” waiting and loading restriction south-westward by 0.5 metres.

Connaught Street - south-east side, outside Nos. 9 to 13

south-east side, outside Nos. 9 and 11 - introduce “at any time” loading restrictions (7.9 metres).

north-west side, junction with Porchester Place - introduce double yellow line “at any time” waiting and loading restrictions

Kendal Street - north-west side, adjacent to No. 15 Porchester Place - relocate car club parking place north-eastward by 1.4 metres.

north-west side, junction with Porchester Place - introduce “at any time” loading restrictions

north-west side, adjacent to No. 20 Porchester Place and outside Park West - remove three pay-by-phone parking places (totalling 20.7 metres); introduce double yellow line “at any time” waiting restrictions (23.4 metres).

south-east side, junction with Porchester Place - introduce “at any time” loading restrictions; introduce double yellow line “at any time” waiting and loading restrictions outside No. 48 (2.8 metres).

south-east side, outside Nos. 48 to 54 - extend pay-by-phone parking place south-westward by 4.3 metres.

south-east side, junction with Portsea Place - introduce double yellow line “at any time” waiting and loading restrictions.

south-east side, opposite Park West Place - introduce double yellow line “at any time” waiting restrictions (17.7 metres).

Porchester Place - junction with Connaught Street - introduce double yellow line “at any time” waiting and loading restrictions.

both sides, junction with Kendal Street - introduce “at any time” loading restrictions.

north-east side, outside No. 20 - introduce residents’ parking place (9.3 metres);

south-west side, outside Nos. 17 to 23 - introduce double yellow line “at any time” waiting restrictions

south-west side, outside No. 25 - introduce double yellow line “at any time” waiting restrictions (19.5 metres).

Portsea Place - north-east side, outside Portsea Hall - remove “White Badge” disabled person’s parking place; extend residents’ parking place south-eastward by 6.9 metres.

north-east side, junction with Connaught Street - shorten residents’ parking place by 0.7 metres; extend double yellow line “at any time” waiting and loading restrictions north-westward by 0.7 metres.

south-west side, junction with Connaught Square - extend “at any time” loading restrictions north-westward by 2.3 metres.