§ Lord KILLEARNasked Her Majesty's Government:
What responsibility local authorities have for introducing or varying parking restrictions in side streets; how, in the London area, these are divided between 1072WA the Greater London Council, the Metropolitan boroughs, and the Metropolitan Police, and what duty there is (a) to consult or inform local residents and (b) to indicate clearly by notice details of regulations currently in force.
§ Baroness BIRKLocal authorities have a duty to promote such measures in the interests of traffic safety and movement. In Greater London the GLC as traffic authority for such roads retains sole power to make an order bringing them into operation, having first consulted the Metropolitan Police. Unless the proposed order is of an experimental or urgent nature and is of limited duration; there must first be consultation between the GLC and the borough council and with one or more organisations representing persons using or having an interest in the street.
Notice of a proposed order, inviting objection to it, must be published at least once in a local newspaper and in the London Gazette and additionally, for orders designating on-street parking places, in a street notice. Having made an order, the GLC has to give notice of its making in the same manner.
House adjourned at twenty-two minutes before four o'clock.