1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the London Borough of Merton, on 24 September 2025, made the above-mentioned Order under the powers conferred by sections 45, 46, 49 and 124 of, and Part IV of Schedule 9 to, the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended.

2. The general effect of the ‘Free Parking Places’ Order would be to:-

(a) designate a parking place on the carriageway, 6.6 metres in length at the location listed in Schedule 1 to this Notice, in which vehicles authorised by the Order may be left for any period without charge;

(b) provide that the parking place would operate at all times, unless otherwise stated;

(c) specify, in respect of the parking place, that vehicles displaying in the relevant position, a disabled persons badge (commonly referred to as "the Blue Badge") issued by any local authority under the provisions of the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) Regulations 2000 may be left therein;

(d) provide that certain vehicles may wait in the parking place in certain circumstances, e.g. to allow persons to board or alight (maximum 2 minutes), to load or unload (maximum 20 minutes), etc;

(e) revoke the disabled persons parking place at the location specified in Schedule 2 to this Notice.

3. A copy of the Order, which will come into force on 6 October 2025, and other documents giving more detailed particulars of the Order, including a plan which indicates the road or lengths of road to which the Order relates, can be inspected during normal office hours Mondays to Fridays, until the end of six weeks from the date on which the Order was made, at Merton Link, Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden.

4. 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 six weeks from the date on which the Order was made, make application for the purpose to the High Court.

Dated 24 September 2025.

Donna Chisholm, Director of Public Realm, London Borough of Merton

LEWIS ROAD, CR4; the north side, from a point in line with the western boundary of No. 1 Oakwood Avenue, eastward for a distance of 6.6 metres.

LEWIS ROAD, CR4; the north side, from a point 23 metres east of the eastern kerb-line of Church Road, eastward for a distance of 6.6 metres.