Walsall Town Centre - Rememberance Sunday Parade And Service

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - AS AMENDED BY
THE ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION (SPECIAL EVENTS) ACT 1994
WALSALL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
VARIOUS ROADS, WALSALL TOWN CENTRE
(SPECIAL EVENTS – REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY PARADE AND
SERVICE) TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDER 2026

Notice is hereby given that due to a special event being held Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council intends to make the above-mentioned Temporary Order for the purposes of holding a special event (temporary closure of roads for Remembrance Sunday Parade and Service in Walsall town centre). The effect of the Order is to impose the following temporary restrictions:-
I. Prohibit all vehicles from entering, proceeding, stopping or waiting along the lengths of roads specified in Schedule 1 (including the junctions linking such roads and all adjacent side roads at their junctions with the roads specified) except such vehicles being used in relation to the Remembrance Sunday parade and service together with the emergency services, police, fire brigade, ambulance purposes, and for organisations responsible for dealing with the loss of supplies of gas, electricity, water or electronic communications to premises in the area and for the removal of any obstruction in the traffic, which necessitates the bringing of vehicles into a section of the roads.
II. The relevant sections of any existing Orders relating to the said lengths of roads are hereby suspended (including the one-way Traffic Regulation Orders on Lichfield Street, Lower Bridge Street, The Bridge, Bradford Street and Bradford Place) for the period of this temporary Order insofar as they affect the said lengths of road and for the avoidance of doubt this Order shall prevail for the duration of this Order.
III. The Order will come into effect on Sunday 8 November 2026 and will remain in force for a maximum of three days only.
The Council are also satisfied that, in accordance with subsection (3) of Section 16A of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, that the event to which the Order relates cannot be held otherwise than on a road.
Dated this 29th day of October 2026
Group Manager – Highway Network
The Civic Centre
Walsall WS1 1TP
GW/2265/6427
SCHEDULE 1
WALSALL TOWN CENTRE 0900 – 1300
ST PAULS STREET
From its junction with Wisemore to its junction with Bridge Street
HATHERTON ROAD
From its junction with St Pauls Street to its junction with Lichfield Street
HATHERTON STREET
From its junction with A4148 Littleton Street East to its junction with Hatherton Road
LICHFIELD STREET
From the Arboretum Junction to its junction with Lower Bridge Street
LOWER BRIDGE STREET
From its junction with Lichfield Street to its junction with The Bridge
THE BRIDGE
From its junction with Lower Bridge Street to its junction with Bradford Street
BRADFORD STREET
From its junction with The Bridge to its junction with Midland Road
BRADFORD PLACE
From its junction with Bradford Street to its junction with Bridgeman Street