Highways Act, 1980 Section 129A

Gating Order for a Certain Highway for the Purposes of Preventing Crime and/or Anti-Social Behaviour

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council

Pear Tree Drive to Honeysuckle Drive, Stalybridge Gating Order 2012

This Order is made by the Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, under the Highways Act 1980, Section 129A (“the Act”) as highway authority for the highway indicated below because it appears that:-

1. the requirements of Section 129A(3) in respect of the said highway are satisfied; and
2. that it is expedient for the purposes of preventing or reducing crime and/or anti-social behaviour that public pedestrian use of the said highway be restricted as this Order provides.

By This Order

1. The public pedestrian use of the highway indicated in paragraph 1 of the Schedule below should be restricted;
2. That such restriction should apply at all times; and
3. That such restriction shall not apply to those parties whose interests would otherwise be affected by this Order and whose interests are identified as those protected by Section 129B (3), (4) and (5) of the said Act as amended; and
4. That the alternative route is as indicated in paragraph II of the Schedule below.

The Schedule

1. The route to be restricted is located along the full width of the adopted highway from Pear Tree Drive at Grid Reference SJ9693398592 (Point A on the map), in a generally east south easterly direction for 31 metres to Honeysuckle Drive at Grid Reference SJ9696298581 (Point B on the map), as shown by a bold continuous line on the Order map.
2. The alternative route which will be available to pedestrian traffic, if the Order is made, is located along Pear Tree Drive at Grid Reference SJ9693398592 (Point A on the map), in a generally westerly direction for 89 metres to Grid Reference SJ9685198567 (Point C on the map), continuing along the pavement of Lindsay Street in a generally southerly direction for 154 metres to Grid Reference SJ9693998440 (Point D on the map), continuing along adopted passageway in an easterly direction for 84 metres to Grid Reference SJ9702098440 (Point E on the map), continuing along on unadopted footpath in a generally north easterly direction for 82 metres to Grid Reference SJ9707298498 (Point F on the map), continuing along Honeysuckle Drive in a north westerly direction for 140 metres to Grid Reference SJ9696298581 (Point B on the map) as shown by a bold broken line on the Order map.

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