East Ayrshire Council (Various Roads, Kilmarnock) (Events) (Temporary Road Closures, Prohibition of Waiting and Loading and Banned Turns) Experimental Order 2023 - East Ayrshire

East Ayrshire Council

(Various Roads, Kilmarnock) (Events) (Temporary Road Closures, Prohibition of Waiting and Loading and Banned Turns)

Experimental Order 2023

Notice of Making

NOTICE is hereby given that on 10/10/23 East Ayrshire Council made an Experimental Order in exercise of the powers conferred on them under Sections 9 and 10 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (as amended) and of all other enabling powers and after consultation with the Chief Officer of Police in accordance with Part III of Schedule 9 to the said Act and having complied with the statutory requirements of The Local Authorities’ Traffic Orders (Procedure)(Scotland) Regulations 1999 (as amended). 

The effect of the Experimental Order is to:

1. Prohibit motor vehicles from entering or passing through Dean Road and Burns Avenue Kilmarnock,
2. Prohibit right turn movements onto Dean Road from: Esson Place, Ingram Place, Otterburn Avenue, and; Turner Place.
3. Prohibit left turn movements onto Dean Road from Landsborough Drive.
4. Apply temporary waiting restrictions on South Dean Road.

The restrictions shall only apply when appropriate traffic management arrangements are placed on the above stated roads and only after advance notification is issued by event organisers.

Access to properties located within these roads will however continue be maintained during the period of the proposed restrictions together with other stated exemptions e.g.  Emergency services and event vehicles.

The Order will be implemented initially on an experimental basis for a minimum period of 6 months and may remain in force for a total period no longer than 18 months. The Council will be collating feedback and monitoring the scheme during this time and may decide to make the Order permanent, vary the Order or abandon it subject to statutory procedures as appropriate.

Further information including a copy of the Order, a plan showing the effects of the Order and a Notice of Proposal for having made the Order, may be inspected at Tell Me Scotland and on the Ayrshire Roads Alliance roadworks webpage and at the Council Headquarters, London Road, Kilmarnock, KA3 7BU during normal office hours, namely 9:00am to 5:00pm (Monday to Thursday) and 9.00am to 4:00pm (Friday).

Any person may object to retaining these restrictions and has 6 months to do so, starting from the date the Order comes into force or, if the Order is varied by a subsequent Order or modified pursuant to section 10(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (as amended) from the date that variation Order or modification comes into force.

Objections must be made in writing to Kevin Braidwood Head of Roads at the address given below or by email to: enquiries@ayrshireroadsalliance.org and must state the grounds on which they are made. Support for the measures can also be sent via the same methods.

Any person wishing to question the validity of the Order or of any provision contained in it on the grounds that it is not within the powers conferred by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (as amended) on the grounds that any requirement of that Act or of any instrument made under it has not been complied with in relation to the Order may, within six weeks from when the Order was made, apply to the Court of Session for this purpose.

Kevin Braidwood

Head of Roads

Ayrshire Roads Alliance

Opera House

8 John Finnie Street

Kilmarnock

KA1 1DD