Waltham Forest - Changes To Disabled Persons’ Parking Places & Waiting Restrictions

THE LONDON BOROUGH OF WALTHAM FOREST (LBWF)
Provision Of New Designated Disabled Persons’ Parking Places (Including A Change From Advisory Disabled Persons’ Parking), Amendment Of Adjacent Parking Places And Waiting Restrictions And Removal Of Disabled Parking Places (Batch 20) (T17(26)) - The Waltham Forest (Parking Places, Loading Places and Waiting, Loading and Stopping Restrictions) (Amendment No. 28) Order 2026

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that THE COUNCIL OF THE LBWF on 29 October 2026 made the above-mentioned Order under sections 6, 45, 46, 49 and 124 of, and Part IV of Schedule 9 to, the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (RTRA).

2. The General Effect Of The Order Will Be:
(a) to provide a designated disabled persons’ parking place measuring 6.6 metres (m) in length (unless otherwise specified in Schedule 1 to this Notice) in each of the locations specified in Schedule 1 to this Notice, in most cases replacing either permit, other paid-for, free short stay or advisory disabled persons’ parking places, on the carriageway, footway or both;

(b) where any designated disabled persons’ parking place referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above is longer than the advisory disabled persons’ parking place it is replacing, or where there is no existing advisory disabled persons’ parking place in the location, to shorten or remove any existing parking place or waiting restriction in that location by the length necessary to provide the disabled persons’ parking place; and

(c) to remove each advisory or designated disabled persons’ parking place specified in Schedule 2 to this Notice and, as applicable, replace it with permit parking space (where situated within a controlled parking zone), or extend adjacent waiting restrictions by the length of the removed disabled persons’ parking place.

3. FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council, in exercise of the same powers under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 referred to in paragraph 1 above, made an Order on 29 October 2026 to reinstate the disabled persons’ parking place outside Nos. 92 and 94 Claude Road, E10, which had been removed from the relevant Traffic Order in error.

4. A copy of the Order, which will come into operation from 2 November 2026, and all other relevant documents can be inspected until the expiry period of six weeks from 29 October 2026, on request by either emailing: traffic.scheme@walthamforest.gov.uk, or visiting (*by appointment) The Highways And Traffic Management Office, Low Hall, Argall Avenue, E10 7AS, during normal office hours on Mondays to Fridays inclusive; or alternatively documents can be viewed online at: www.walthamforest.gov.uk/content/road-traffic-schemes-and-consultations.

5. 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 RTRA 1984, or that any of the relevant requirements thereof or of any relevant regulation made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the Order may, within six weeks of the making of the Order, make application for the purpose to the High Court.

*For more information, please telephone 020 8496 3000 quoting: Reference: - Traffic Orders – T17(26) – Formalisation of disabled persons’ parking places 2026 – Batch 20.

Mr. Emdad Ahmed Corporate Director Of Highways And Parking,
Traffic Orders, Low Hall, Argall Avenue, London, E10 7AS
Dated: 29 October 2026

SCHEDULE 1 – see paragraph 2(a) above

Locations of designated disabled persons’ parking places (locations are approximate and designated disabled persons’ parking places may extend in front of adjacent properties) (1 bay provided unless stated otherwise).

(E4 Roads)
Antlers Hill – outside No. 99; Beech Hall Rd – outside No. 129; Blackthorne Drive (Drv) – outside Nos. 21 and 23; Blandford Cres – outside No. 27; Bluehouse Rd – outside No. 22; Buxton Rd – outside No. 31; George Rd – outside Nos. 25 and 27; Groveside Rd – outside No. 35; Fairlight Avenue (Ave) – adjacent to No. 63 Larkshall Rd; Leonard Rd – outside No. 65; Priory Ave – outside No. 104; Rectory Close – outside No. 10; Westward Rd – outside No. 119a; and Winchester Rd – outside Nos. 235 and 237.

(E7 Road)
Wansittart Rd – outside Nos. 8 and 10

(E10 Roads)
Capworth St – outside Nos. 269 and 271; Chesterfield Rd – outside No. 3; Dunedin Rd – outside Nos. 27 and 29; Essex Rd – outside Nos. 140 and 142; Lindley Rd – outside Nos. 51 to 57; Melbourne Rd – (2 bays) (i) outside No. 33; and (ii) outside No. 64; and Murchison Rd – (2 bays) (i) – outside Nos. 50 and 52; and (ii) outside No. 215.

(E11 Roads)
Elm Rd – adjacent to No. 128 Grove Green Rd; Newcomen Rd – outside No. 6; Tickenham Rd – (2 bays) (i) outside No. 175; and (ii) outside Nos. 127-131; and Woodville Rd – outside Nos. 9 and 11.

(E15 Road)
Ellingham Rd – outside No. 3

(E17 Roads)
Addison Rd – outside No. 15B; Church Hill Rd – between Nash House and Crosbie House; Elmsdale Rd – outside Nos. 26 and 30; Hervey Park Rd – outside No. 53; Millfield Ave – outside Nos. 75 and 77; Northcote Rd – outside No. 108; Penrhyn Ave – outside No. 50; Salop Rd – between Nos. 33 and 35; Sutton Rd – outside Nos. 25 and 27; Theobald Rd – (2 bays) (i) outside No. 11; and (ii) outside No. 18; Trevose Rd – outside Nos. 42 and 44; Ulverston Rd – outside Nos. 9 and 11; Walpole Rd – outside No. 48; and Westmorland Rd – outside Nos. 20 and 22.

SCHEDULE 2 – see paragraph 2(c) above

Designated (and advisory) disabled persons’ parking places removed in the immediate vicinity of:

(E4 Roads)
Silverdale Rd – outside No. 9; and Sunnyside Drv – outside No. 3

(E10 Roads)
Amberley Rd – outside No. 15; Claude Rd – outside No. 90; Coopers Lane – outside No. 28; and Peterborough Rd – outside No. 65

(E11 Roads)
Richmond Rd – outside Nos. 25 and 27

(E17 Roads)
Clacton Rd – outside No. 40; Garner Rd – outside No. 72; Queen Elizabeth Rd – outside No. 31; and Stirling Rd – outside Nos. 36 and 38

(E7 Road)
Thorpe Rd – outside Nos. 22 to 26

THE LONDON BOROUGH OF WALTHAM FOREST (LBWF)