1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the London Borough of Merton, on 3 November 2025, made the above-mentioned Orders under the powers conferred by sections 6, 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 will be to:-

(a) designate a parking place on the carriageway, 6.6 metres in length, at each of the locations 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 places will operate at all times, unless otherwise stated;

(c) specify, in respect of the parking places, 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;

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

(g) revoke the disabled persons parking places at the locations specified in Schedule 2 to this Notice.

3. The general effect of the ‘Parking Places Amendment’ Orders will be to shorten in length existing permit only parking places to facilitate the introduction of disabled persons parking place in certain roads.

4. A copy of the Orders, which will come into force on 14 November 2025, and other documents giving more detailed particulars of the Orders, including plans which indicate the roads or lengths of road to which the Orders relate, 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.

5. 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 has 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 3 November 2025

Donna Chisholm

Director of Public Realm

London Borough of Merton

SCHEDULE 1

BODNANT GARDENS, SW20; the north side, from the common boundary of Nos. 50 and 51 Bodnant Gardens, eastward for a distance of 6.6 metres.

HILLCROSS AVENUE, SM4; the south-east side, from a point 1.7 metres south-west of the north-easternmost flank wall of No. 223 Hillcross Avenue, south-westward for a distance of 6.6 metres.

STATION ROAD, KT3; the south-east side, from a point 4.5 metres south-west of the south-westernmost flank wall of Seoul House, south-westward for a distance of 6.6 metres.

SCHEDULE 2

Outside (o/s) No. 27 Abbott Avenue (CPZ A1), o/s No. 71 Amity Grove (CPZ RPC), o/s No. 82 Amity Grove (CPZ RPC), opposite No. 66 Burstow Road, o/s No. 46 Claremont Avenue, o/s No. 17 Cowdrey Road (CPZ 3E), o/s No. 36 Crossway, opposite Nos. 43/45 Crossway, o/s No. 10 Frimley Gardens, o/s No. 356 Northborough Road, o/s The Woodlands, Commonside East, and o/s No. 1 Wilson Avenue.