Kirklees, Dewsbury/Batley - Traffic Restrictions on stopping, parking, loading and unloading.
What is happening?
KIRKLEES COUNCIL(TRAFFIC REGULATION)
(CONSOLIDATION ORDER PROVIDING
ON-STREET PARKING PLACES, WAITING,
LOADING AND STOPPING RESTRICTIONS
AND MIGRATION TOA‘MAP-BASED’FORMAT)
ORDER 2024 (AMENDMENT NO. 18) ORDER 2025
HALIFAX ROAD, DEWSBURY AND BLAKERIDGE LANE, BATLEY
The Council of the Borough of Kirklees have made the above Order under their powers in the Road Traffic RegulationAct 1984 the effect of which, as it affects a lengths of road in the Heckmondwike, Dewsbury and Batley areas of the Kirklees district, will be to amend the Kirklees Council (Traffic Regulation) (Consolidation Order
Providing On-Street Parking Places, Waiting, Loading And Stopping Restrictions and Migration to a ‘Map-Based’ Format) Order 2024 so as to:
1. Prohibit the waiting of vehicles at any time on lengths of the following roads:
i. Upper Blakeridge Lane, Batley
(The restrictions that were proposed on High Street, Cawley Lane and Commercial Street, Heckmondwike have been removed from this order and will not be brought into effect)
2. To create free parking places for a maximum stay of
1 hour with no return within 1 hour on a length of Halifax Road, Dewsbury (The restriction will apply from 8am to 6pm Monday to Saturday)
3. To create a disabled parking bay, which will operate at all times on a length of Halifax Road, Dewsbury (with a maximum stay of 3 hours and no return within 1 hour)
4. To revoke an item relating to the existing free parking place on Halifax Road, Dewsbury in the
Kirklees Council (Traffic Regulation) (Consolidation Order Providing On-Street Parking Places, Waiting, Loading and Stopping Restrictions and Migration to a ‘Map-Based’Format) Order 2024 which will be redundant when certain parts of the restrictions referred to above are introduced
This Order was made on 24 March 2026 and will take effect on 02April 2026.
Acopy of this Order, together with the plan showing the affected lengths of road and a detailed statement of reasons for making the Order may be examined at:-
• Online: http://www.kirklees.gov.uk/trafficregulation
• By emailing highways.TRO@kirklees.gov.uk Any person wishing to challenge the Order on the grounds that it is not within the powers of the Road Traffic RegulationAct 1984 or that any requirements of that, or of any instrument made under it, have not been complied with may apply to the High Court within six weeks following 02 April 2026.
Dated this 02April 2026
Samantha Lawton – Service Director – Legal, Governance and Commissioning, Kirklees Council, Legal Services, PO
Box 1720, Huddersfield HD1 9EL
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